COLONEL KEN CASTER (USMC) — Commander, Regimental Combat Team 5
LIEUTENANT DARNELL CHANDLER (U.S. ARMY) — Assistant maintenance officer, 37th Armored Regiment
LIEUTENANT COLONEL DAN CONNOLLY (USMC) — Infantry officer, assigned to the Pentagon; former commander of 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines; former platoon commander with 3/5
COMMANDER DIANA DELVECCHIO (U.S. NAVY) — Captain, USS John Warner (SSN-785)
LIEUTENANT SANDRA “GLITTER” GLISSON (U.S. ARMY) — Apache pilot
LIEUTENANT COLONEL TOM GRANT (U.S. ARMY) — Tank logistics and maintenance officer, 37th Armored Regiment, deployed to Grafenwöhr, Germany
MAJOR BOB GRIGGS (U.S. ARMY) — Infantry and Ranger officer; Army infantryman, Ranger tab; on assignment to the Joint Staff Office for Strategy, Plans & Policy (J5)
LIEUTENANT COLONEL ERIC MCHALE (USMC) — Operations officer, RCT-5
CAPTAIN BRAD SPILLANE (U.S. ARMY) — Interim operations officer, 37th Armored Regiment
CAPTAIN RAYMOND “SHANK” VANCE (USAF) — A-10 pilot
COLONEL YURI VLADIMIROVICH BORBIKOV — Russian Federation special forces commander
COLONEL DANILO DRYAGIN — Russian Federation infantry commander
CAPTAIN GEORG ETUSH — Submarine commander, Kazan (K-561)
COLONEL DMITRY KIR — Chief of staff and de facto chief of operations for Colonel General Boris Lazar
BORIS LAZAR — Russian Federation colonel general
ANATOLY RIVKIN — President of the Russian Federation
EDUARD SABANEYEV — Russian Federation colonel general
COLONEL FELIKS SMIRNOV — Deputy commanding officer to Colonel General Sabaneyev
COLONEL IVAN ZOLOTOV — Russian Air Force Su-57 pilot, Red Talon Squadron
CAPTAIN APOLLO ARC-BLANCHETTE — French special forces officer, 13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment
PASCAL ARC-BLANCHETTE — Officer in Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE), the French foreign intelligence agency; Captain Apollo Arc-Blanchette’s father
CAPTAIN CHEN MIN JUN — Chinese special forces officer
DR. NIK MELANOPOLIS — Analyst, National Security Agency
MAJOR BLAZ OTT — German Bundeswehr armor maintenance officer
PAULINA TOBIASZ — Polish civilian militia member