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Triumph and Tragedy in the Med: A ‘Sea Power’ After-Action Account Told as a Press Release

Dec 3, 2024

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Alex Diaz-Granados

in Alternative History (Alt History), Cold War-Turns-Hot Games, Computer and Video Games, Computer Games, Creative Writing, MicroProse Software, Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age

Press Release: Naval Battle in the Eastern Mediterranean October 21, 1984 The Navy Department reports that, 12 hours after Warsaw Pact forces began hostilities in Western Europe following the deposition of the ailing General Secretary Konstantin Chernenko by Soviet hardliners, the USS Nimitz carrier battlegroup successfully fended off coordinated air and submarine attacks by Soviet…