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TRADOC Pam 525-3-7-01certainly laid the groundwork to make landing at Padang more costly than the beaches atNormandy. His fleet of gunboats would swarm on the Seabase, as the Americans called theirassemblage of ships, sink several large warships and channel the others into the minefields.What the mines didn’t get, the new Silkworm VII antiship missiles would take care of. He tookgreat pride in his air defense array. If the coalition wanted to practice their Ship to ObjectiveManeuver doctrine with their V22’s and CH-53XMs, his automated and man-portable integrateddefense would take out a bunch of those vaunted machines and their precious cargo. Heremembered the U.S. Army’s operational maneuver from strategic distances concept, butdiscounted their ability to execute this ambitious idea of launching an attack from fort to fight.Just let them try to follow their own concepts. Maybe his forces could just pull this off, he silentlyprayed.The loudspeaker announcements resounded throughout the Pekanbaru terminal throwing thealready chaotic mass of passenger aspirants into a maelstrom of bodies pushing to get to theoutside doors and out of the terminal. The UN group tried to stay together under Tony Dodson’scontrol. Dodson was the Chief of Delegation. A former Marine (still a Marine if you asked him),Dodson could hardly believe what he heard. They’d been in the terminal all afternoon. Nightfallwas minutes away and now the Anderian’s were announcing an infidel airborne assault on theairport! Dodson thought, “they’re coming to evacuate the noncombatants.”The first stick of nearly 50 paratroopers landed precisely positioned around the controltower, their global positioning system guided chutes collapsing as they snapped off the harnessesand sped to the tower stairs. Another platoon of the 3 rd Infantry BCT assault force secured thejet fuel tank farm. Other platoons seized entry points around the perimeter of the airfield while awhole company landed between the runways and taxiways with the mission of securing andclearing the runways. An Air Force combat control team that parachuted in with the first waveordered taxiing jumbo jets to return to the terminal. Other brigade units reinforced the initialterminal assault force as they took out Anderian security teams with their directed energyweapons. It was absolutely crazy in the terminal, but so far, the only injured civilians were thosetrampled by the crowd.In less than two hours, the 3 rd BCT owned the airport. Minutes later, the first elements of aBCT airlanded in C-17s discharging a combined arms battalion of FSVs.Ibn Ander screamed at General Dumai whose ashen features reflected his utter shock at thecapture of the international airport. All communications with his subordinates were severedexcept for the intricate network of messengers they’d established to relay commands and reports.All reports were universally horrible. Somehow, coalition forces had jumped over his defenses,neutralized his anti-aircraft array, and landed practically on top of the capital. He expected tohear the shot that would end it all at any moment.What Dumai and Ibn Ander didn’t know was that coalition forces had seized the Port ofDumai, the general’s home city, and that a U.S. Marine task force (TF) reinforced with an ArmyStryker Brigade was leap-frogging toward Pekanbaru unopposed. They also didn’t know that theBritish led amphibious force had cut Padang off from the north and south without having to fightthrough Anderian defenses. Meanwhile, a second BCT rushed toward the capital from the48