Dragon's Fury - World War against America and the West

798 Pages·2004·4.35 MB·English

by  Jeff Head

What if
…

What if a future presidential election
in the United States goes entirely and
unexpectedly awry?

What if the fundamental Islamic
nations unite to wage all-out holy war in
the mid-East…and then ally themselves
with Red China?

What if, during all of this, the North
Koreans become emboldened to make a
massive invasion of South Korea?

“Dragon's Fury –World War against
America and the West”, is that story…
Published By:
Alpha Connections
Emmett, ID 83716

This is a work of fiction. The events and characters described herein are
imaginary. Any similarities to actual persons or events are purely a result of the
author's imagination.

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2nd Edition Copyright © 2006 by Jeff Head

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DRAGON’S FURY
WORLD WAR
AGAINST AMERICA
AND THE WEST

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J E F F
H E A D

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FOREWORDS
Larry Schweikart
Co-Author of, A Patriot’s History of the United States
Author of, America's Victories: Why the U.S. Wins Wars and Will Win the War on Terror

From the moment an unholy alliance of Asian and Islamic powers forms to make war on
the United States, the future of liberty in this thriller is in doubt. Using secretly developed, high
speed, super-cavitating torpedoes and mines, the Red Chinese and their allies threaten to do what
no power has done in the 20th century-dominate the United States at sea. Jeff Head weaves a
story of what World War - perhaps the beginning of which is our war on terror - would be like,
and it isn't pretty. It is, however, entirely plausible.

For 20 years, the United States has watched the Chinese communist governments conceal
their socialist character and pretend to be free market capitalists, often at our expense. They have
acquired high-level technology, especially during the Clinton administration, without any
concessions to internal freedom, and have flagrantly constructed a blue-water navy with one sole
purpose: to challenge American dominance in the Pacific. Sadly, even in the otherwise erstwhile
Bush administration, such advances have not been tempered, let alone reversed, with the likely
result being that, barring a remarkable weakening of China from the inside (as occurred with
Soviet Russia), a conflict with the Red Chinese is nearly inescapable.

The good news is that, presently, the United States retains a quality edge over our potential
enemies, and our submarines are superior by several orders of magnitude. But the Chinese see
this as an incentive to improve their own programs. While an alliance such as Jeff describes is
unlikely in the short term, the world has witnessed much stranger bedfellows at the drop of a hat.

Jeff’s is a story of heroism, sacrifice, pain, and redemption. His analysis and descriptions
are so prescient that we must hope it remains a work of fiction and not history before-the-fact.

Matthew Bracken
Author of, Enemies Foreign and Domestic, and, Domestic Enemies, The Reconquista

If you enjoy reading big—and I mean big—techno-thrillers, then Dragon’s Fury by Jeff
Head is for you. Imagine a history of World War Two, from the invasion of Poland until
Hiroshima: that will give you an idea of the sweeping narrative in this “future history” of
the next world war. In Jeff’s scenario, communist China forges an alliance with a unified
Islamic world, and brings a reluctant India aboard. China leads the way, determined to
drive the U.S. out of the Mid-East, the Indian Ocean, Asia, and the Western Pacific.

The war begins with a series of surprise attacks on American naval forces. The Chinese
have secretly developed and deployed new classes of weapons the US Navy cannot
counter, including hyper-speed super-cavitating torpedoes. With their breakthrough
weapons and millions of expendable soldiers, victory after victory goes to the Chinese-
led axis, until much of the free world is crushed and subjugated.

The defeat of the Unites States seems certain, but America and her remaining allies rise
to the challenge. The United States deploys its own breakthrough weapons and, without
giving away too much of the plot, Jeff’s techno-thriller shows that space will be the
ultimate “high ground,” to determine the outcome of the next world war.

In such a scenario could today’s bitterly divided America unify and rally behind a
strong wartime President, and endure the hardships of years of defeat? Could such a war
be fought, and not go nuclear in the opening battles? I wondered about these questions,
but in Dragon’s Fury, Jeff Head weaves a complete story line that plausibly suspends the
readers’ disbelief, and takes him or her along for a wild ride that is the next world war.
DEDICATION

I must dedicate Dragon’s Fury –World War Against America and the West,
to my World War II combat veteran father. He passed away on January 25,
2004. He was a hard working, all-American, faithful Christian man…husband,
father, grandfather and great-grandfather, and my dear friend. In his youth, he
volunteered to defend his nation, his liberty, and his way of life, against the
Empire of Japan, serving in combat in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific.

His teachings and upbringing, next to that of my Savior, Jesus Christ, have
influenced my moral, political, spiritual and career thinking like no other. He
was a great fan and supporter of this work and his insights and support made a
great difference to it. I only wish he could have lived to read it in its entirety.
Dad, I miss you, and am holding a copy in trust for you when we meet again.

I also dedicate this to my older brother, Greg, who died of cancer on July 3,
2004, at the age of forty-nine. He and I were only 15 months apart. We went
to the same High School, played on the same football teams, hauled hay in the
hot Texas summers together, served missions for our church at the same time,
roomed at college together and were close. We both had a great passion for the
outdoors, particularly the American intermountain west. In the end, he fought
valiantly for life over a two and a half year period when he was expected to
only live six months. I respected his stamina, his zest for life, his caring spirit,
and his ultimate desire to emulate his Savior, irrespective of any difficulty or
shortcoming. He also was a great fan of this work, and I look forward to
handing it to him in its entirety over there, across Jordan, when we meet again.

Finally, this novel is dedicated to lovers of liberty everywhere, and to the
principles upon which true liberty rests: faith, morality, virtue, honor, free will,
commitment, and eternal vigilance. It is especially dedicated to all of those
Americans and their families who have served in defense of liberty and
sacrificed their time, their efforts, their very lives and the lives of their loved
ones for that cause, at home or abroad.
ACKNOWLEDGEMNTS

Special thanks go to my family for their patience while I produced this
work. In particular to my wife of over 28 years for her love and forbearance,
and to my two sons, Jeff and Jared for their proofs and input. Also, to my oldest
daughter, Katie, who has been one of the biggest fans of this work and who has
read all of it as it was written, giving her input and suggestions.

Also to my mother, Georgia, whose Christian love, and dedication to her
family have always inspired me. Mom, may we hold firm and true in the faith
until we are gathered back together with all of our loved ones in Christ.

Thanks to Chris Durkin of Pennsylvania for his reviews, contributions,
edits, and his unwavering support and encouragement.

Thanks to Joanie Fischer of Pennsylvania for her edits, reviews,
contributions, for her faith in this work, and for her encouragement throughout
the entire project.

Thanks to Matt Bracken of Florida for his reviews, his input, his forward to
this novel, for his own patriotic novels, and for his service to our Republic as a
U.S. Navy Seal.

Thanks to Larry Schweikart of Ohio for his input, recommendations, for
the forward to this novel, and for his own great books and novels which have
been an inspiration to me and so many others.

Thanks to Matthew Riley of Connecticut, may God rest his soul, for his
reviews and edits and for his military service to our republic.

Thanks to Arthur Hines of North Carolina for his input, which included
excellent suggestions for the cover of this novel. Thanks also to Art for his
service to our nation on the point end of the sword in Vietnam.

Thanks to Bruce Elmore of Illinois, for his contribution regarding the Arab
terrorist, Ahmed Haddad, and for his service as a U.S. Marine.

Thanks to Luis Gonzalez of Florida, for his ideas on a more personal
writing style, and his draft sample introducing the Chinese President.

Thanks to Cory Emberson of California for her reviews and edits.

To each of these and all others, who have encouraged me and put up with
my ramblings, I say again, a heartfelt thanks.
WHY DRAGON’S FURY?

I have been the recipient of the very best the United States has to offer.
I have lived in prosperous times brought on by the strength and vitality of
free enterprise in a free market that is based on liberty and broad-based
faith and morality. I have also had the opportunity of world travel in my
career and observed many other cultures and people.
Over the last thirty or more years, I have watched, with growing
discomfort, as our traditional American society and system of government,
and everything it is based upon, has been attacked, compromised, watered
down, and corrupted by individuals, institutions, and governments, both
foreign and domestic. It’s happened gradually, as most Americans have
been too busy with professional and material pursuits to notice it.
In the mean time, our most sophisticated technologies have been given
away, sold, and stolen, and potential enemies are building up while we
“staff down”. The wealth of our markets has been ill used by
manipulators, politicians, and regimes who are not our friends...who
represent the antithesis of our way of life, our system of government, and
the values that it is all based upon. In addition, our entire society has been
watered down by a form of political correctness and immoral socialization
that I believe the founders of this nation would have fought to prevent.
The result is that we have become vulnerable. On September 11, 2001,
we were shown how vulnerable in a horrific way. In order to avoid much
worse, we must be vigilant and grasp tightly to the heritage and moral
values that have made this nation strong, and re-institute them into our
lives and society. If we do not do this, then events could lead to a scenario
where we risk losing our liberty, our way of life, and our very lives…all of
which have been purchased in blood by those who have gone before.
This novel has been produced with the hope, that while reading it,
individuals will be inspired to look to the foundations of their liberty, and
have a desire to restore the strength and vitality that has kept that liberty
alive and shining in America as a beacon to the world for so long. This is
the underlying reason for “Dragon's Fury”, along with a simple desire to
produce a compelling, exciting story that is simply a “good read”.

Jeff Head
Emmett, Idaho
September 2006
DRAGON’S FURY
WORLD WAR
AGAINST AMERICA
AND THE WEST

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Prologue

November 28, 1970, 20:35 local
Naval Headquarters, Research Center
Hanoi, North Vietnam
Lu Pham rolled back from his workbench, set his slide rule down, and swiveled his stool around.
Placing his elbow on the desk and his hand under his chin, he sat, reflecting.
“So”, he thought, “it can be done! … the secret is simply maintaining the wave form that keeps
the cavity stable once that cavity has been achieved”.
Lu had been working on this problem for over a year, spending uncounted off-duty hours
creating the mathematical models, which would prove or disprove his theories. In his capacity as a
naval research officer, Lu was working to reduce the noise signature of North Vietnam’s coastal craft
by studying the cavitation the propellers created and finding ways to reduce it.
He was being funded in the endeavor by monies from the Soviet Union, the USSR having earlier
become aware of Lu’s remarkable mathematical abilities. In the process, Lu had become obsessed by
the cavitation itself. In the environment of his official research, cavitation was a bad, dangerous thing.
Cavitation of that sort meant sound, sound that the detection devices of the imperialist U.S. Navy
could detect and use to either destroy the craft of his nation, or to avoid them.
But the cavitation that Lu was predicting was a far different matter. Such stable cavitation could
only be created at extremely high speeds, and only by a proper, sleek body moving at those
speeds…towards the ships of the U.S. 7th fleet. Lu only had to document these findings and present
them to his superiors. He was sure they would jump at any chance to deliver a decisive blow to their
enemies…to his enemies.
In his mind’s eye, as so often occurred when he contemplated delivering a blow to the
Americans, he once again saw the fertile undergrowth, the moist, dense forest. Yes, there! he could
just see the huts of the village…and as soon he saw them, he always caught the same faint, sickly,
coppery odors on the wind. In his mind, as he proceeded towards the village, he came into the
clearing where he could see more clearly the bodies of his father and his mother. They were in the
center of the village, lying on the ground where the US Special Forces “Phoenix” Team had left them
after disposing of this particular Vietcong coordinator whom their intelligence had correctly identified
as an instrument sent there by the North.
December 9, 1970 15:30 local
Commandant’s Office, Naval Research Center
Hanoi, North Vietnam
“Comrade Lu, let me understand, you have developed a mathematical model which leads you to
believe that a weapon can be developed to attack the US 7th fleet off our shores and inflict severe
damage on them, potentially even damaging or destroying their aircraft carriers?”
“That is correct”, replied Lu Pham to Captain Ho Chien Thom, who was the Commandant of
North Vietnam’s fledgling Naval Research effort.
“The device I contemplate would travel at 300-400 kilometers per hour and could reach the
imperialist’s ships before they could respond to it. One of the key difficulties will be designing the
shape of the weapon. The leading edge must be precise in order to create and maintain the cavity
through which the weapon moves. Another difficulty will be the propulsion system, which must be
adequate to achieve and maintain the speed to create this cavity. Finally, we must find a way to
deploy the device…"
The Captain cut him off.
“Lt. Lu, did you contemplate that these difficulties make it impossible for us to produce your
weapon? Have you forgotten that we rely on our comrade socialist nations for all of our modern
devices and conveniences?”
Now raising his voice, Captain Ho continued, “Have you forgotten that the very slide rule you
use to make these pipedream calculations was not created here?”
Seeking to quickly respond and to abate the unforeseen anger of his commander, Lu
responded…and succeeded in only increasing that anger.
“No, comrade Captain, I have not forgotten these things; but, respectfully, I believe that such a
weapon can be developed. I also believe that those nations assisting us in this struggle would be more
than willing to provide the resources once they see the potential of what this slide rule has produced.”
Unfortunately, at 23 years of age, the young lieutenant was very naïve and not savvy, or
experienced in the politics of the so-called “People’s struggle” in which he was involved. Capt. Ho,
far more experienced in such realities, understood that to propose such a use of resources in the current
circumstances would be damaging to his own standing, not to mention the barely adequate funding
they were currently receiving.