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MAIN CHARACTERS

KEVIN HARDISON, chief of staff

BOB MCVEIGH, secretary of defense

DAWN CABRAL, secretary of state

CHRISTINE O’CONNOR, national security advisor

BILL DUBOSE (Colonel), senior military aide

MURRAY WILSON (Captain), Commanding Officer

JAKE HARRISON (Lieutenant), SEAL Platoon Officer-in-Charge

DAVID RANDLE (Captain), Commanding Officer

BILL HOUSTON / call sign Samurai (Lieutenant Commander), F/A-18E pilot

YURI KALININ, president

BORIS CHERNOV, defense minister

ANDREI LAVROV, foreign minister

SEMYON GOREV, director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)

SERGEI ANDROPOV (General), chief of the general staff

OLEG LIPOVSKY (Admiral), Commander-in-Chief, Navy

ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO, president of Belarus

XIANG CHENGLEI, president of China

DEEPAK MADAN, president of India