Arsenal

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Regular Carrier readers may notice a difference between this book and earlier ones. Arsenal is longer, going into more depth on the battles and conflicts we’ll be righting in the next decades. Let me know if you like the longer style.

My thanks, as always, to the following: Jake Elwell and George Wieser, the finest agents in the world. John Talbot, the next-finest agent and superb new writing mentor. Tom Colgan, my editor, who’d make a great fighter pilot. Captain Bud Weeks, USN, my first CO on USS Jouett (CG 29). Cyndy Mobley and Ron Morton, technical advisors and war consultants. Lynette Spratley, who types faster than I can talk and reads my first drafts. Bobby, the guy that cuts my hair and knows about Cubans.

And finally: to the men and women who go to sea in the service of our country BRAVO ZULU.