A state of disobedience (Tom Kratman) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги (ч. 153)

Western Currency Facility, Fort Worth, Texas

We could just leave them to die on the vine, thought Sawyers. They're not blocking anything. The facility is not that important really, not anymore. It's just a symbol. They can't have food for more than a few more weeks.

But, though Sawyers had tried to have the assault called off, he had been refused at the very highest levels just as he had been refused air support. He had managed to browbeat the Regular Army into giving him a half battery of self-propelled artillery.

He really didn't trust them though.

Thus it was that, with heavy heart, Sawyers greeted his subordinates as they filed into his command post for their final orders; orders certain to be final for many of them.

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