Red Metal

CHARACTERS

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