Authors: Mike Maden
Drone Command
ALSO BY MIKE MADEN
Blue Warrior
Drone
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Maden, Mike.
Drone command / Mike Maden.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-698-19071-9
I. Title.
PS3613.A284327D77 2015 2015017116
813'.6âdc23
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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For all the brave sons, mine most of
all
JAPAN
SANJI HARA | Vice Admiral, JMSDF |
DR. NITOBE IKEDA | Director, NEDO |
HIROSHI ITO | Prime Minister of Japan |
KOBAYASHI | Yakuza boss |
HIROSHI ONIZUKA | Captain of the submarine |
OSHIRO | Yakuza underboss |
KATSU TANAKA | Parliamentary Senior Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, LDP member of the House of Representatives (Nagasaki Prefecture) |
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
GENERAL CHEN ZULIN | Vice Chairman, Central Military Commission |
ADMIRAL DENG ZILONG | Fleet Commander, PLAN South Sea Fleet |
FENG YONGBO | Vice Chairman, Central Military Commission |
FENG JIANLI | Son of Feng Yongbo |
ADMIRAL JI DONGSHENG | Fleet Commander, PLAN East Sea Fleet |
HUANG YONG | Minister of State Security |
PANG BO | Ambassador to Japan |
SUN QUAN | General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China, Chairman of the Central Military Commission |
DR. WENG LITONG | Head, GAD Expert Working Group (robotic weapon systems) |
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
DR. T. J. ASHLEY | Pearce Systems associate |
HENRY DAVIS | Ambassador to Japan |
DR. WILLIAM (WILL) ELLIOTT | National Security Research Fellow, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Ex-CIA, friend of Troy's dad |
JIM GARZA | National Security Advisor |
STELLA KANG | Pearce Systems associate |
DAVID LANE | President of the United States |
IAN MCTAVISH | Pearce Systems associate |
MARGARET MYERS | Former President of the United States |
GENERAL GORDON ONSTOT | Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff |
TROY PEARCE | CEO, Pearce Systems |
MIKE PIA | Director of National Intelligence |
BREN SHAFER | Secretary of Defense |
GABY WHEELER | Secretary of State |
DR. KENJI YAMADA | University of Hawaii faculty, Pearce Systems associate |
OTHER NOTABLES
AUGUST MANN | Pearce Systems director of nuclear facility deconstruction (Germany) |
DR. LINH PHAM | VAST drone researcher (Vietnam) |
TAMAR STERN | Former Pearce Systems security associate, Mossad agent (Israel) |
4GW | Fourth-generation Warfare |
A2AD | Anti-Access/Area Denial |
AAV | Autonomous Aerial Vehicle |
ACTUV | Antisubmarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel |
ADPS | Automated Dynamic Positioning System |
ASAT | Antisatellite |
ASV | Autonomous Surface Vehicle |
ASW | Antisubmarine Warfare |
AUV | Autonomous Underwater Vehicle |
AWACS | Airborne Warning and Control System |
CAP | Combat Air Patrol |
CIC | Combat Information Center |
CMC | Central Military Commission |
DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
DNI | Director of National Intelligence |
EMP | Electromagnetic Pulse |
FIC | First Island Chain |
GAD | General Armament Department (A PRC/PLA version of DARPA) |
GWOT | Global War on Terrorism |
HGV | Hypersonic Glide Vehicle |
HPM | High-powered Microwave |
HUMINT | Human Intelligence (spies) |
ICBM | Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
JPALS | Joint Precision Approach and Landing System |
LDP | Liberal Democratic Party of Japan |
LRAD | Long-range Acoustic Device |
MAD | Mutual Assured Destruction |
MIRV | Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle |
MOD | Minister of Defense (Japan) |
MSS | Ministry of State Security (PRC) |
NEDO | New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization |
NKP | New Komeito Party (Japan) |
SAC | Second Artillery Corps (PRC) |
SLBM | Sub-Launched Ballistic Missile |
STEM | Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math |
TAD | Threat Assessment Display |
TEPCO | Tokyo Electric Power Company |
TNF | Technical Nuclear Forensics |
TTO | Tactical Technology Office (DARPA, USA) |
UCAV | Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle |
UCLASS | Unmanned Carrier-launched Surveillance and Strike Vehicle |
UFP | Upward Falling Payload |
USV | Unmanned Surface Vehicle |
UUV | Unmanned Underwater Vehicle |
VAST | Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology |
VPA | Vietnam People's Army |
VTC | Video Teleconference |