Kill Chain: The Next War

by John Schettler

Kill Chain As the Russian Operation Blizzard surges into the North Cape, Kirov leads the North Fleet into the first major engagement of the next war, the Battle of the Denmark Strait. The tension mounts as two American carrier strike groups continue to advance, and Captain Karpov must use both skill and guile to seize control of the engagement and coordinate his attack with a massive raid by the Russian Backfire bomber squadrons from the Kola Peninsula. Relying on his superb long range missiles, Karpov must advance into the lion’s den to get the bulk of his task force into position to attack. But the American planes are already in the skies, bringing their own wrath to face the Russian threat. At the same time, a deadly game of cat and mouse is underway beneath the sea, and the Russian special purpose submarine Belgorod attempts to break out into the Atlantic with the most deadly torpedoes ever made--each carrying massive nuclear warheads. The greatest naval battle since the Second World War is about to begin, and the cost in both steel and blood will be high.

323 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 1, 2019

Reviews

[William VanDenburgh · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book looks at a world wide war with the miss-match of USN Carriers and stealth aircraft vs Russian Missile ships using advanced long range missiles, and China's new Navy consisting of new Carriers and copies of Russian missiles, america's stolen technology and a built-up fleet. This displays the USN's mistake again of fighting the last war without the time to correct that error. This is insightful by the author and provides a thoughtful read.
Otherwise, the book drags with pages of improbable Sci-Fi type discourse on time travel and other boring miss-mash. This is accompanied by the author trying to explain what happened in past Russian lives and medians. The author also continues to try and explained and justify why he trashed Pres. Trump in a previous book. He should have realized that many readers of this kind of book would be supporters of Trump's policies. Otherwise, it provides interesting contrasts in how the next war might be engaged.

[Anandasubramanian · Rating 5 out of 5]

JS is back.

One of the best at par with the 2nd book.
The author is back in full form.
Kudos to John. And Karpov.