Three miles or more to our starboard is a low dim line. It is the Eastern shore of Central Africa. We are running to the southward, before the North East Monsoon, between the mainland and the reef that for hundreds of miles fringes this perilous coast.

She couldn't have been so battleshippy, either, and it's no wonder she had so little trouble picking a husband, though why she picked Edgar Dudley I can't imagine, unless it was because of the mica mine.

Upon arriving in Setauket, Roe would dead-drop the information in a box in the middle of a field owned by Woodhull. Woodhull took the secrets to Brewster, who delivered them to Major Tallmadge.

One sample question: How will Chinese ballistic-missile submarines (SSBNs) based at Sanya, on Hainan Island, reach patrol grounds in the western Pacific should Beijing choose to send them out? To maintain stealth, SSBNs would first have to evade any adversary picket submarines lying offshore. Once in deep water, they would cruise eastward toward the Philippines. In all likelihood Chinese boats would exit through the Luzon Strait, the narrow sea between Taiwan and the Philippine island of Luzon. Or, more precisely, maritime geography will force them to exit through the narrow Bashi Channel, near the northern edge of the strait.