Mastico / Qumar arms-transfer crisis: executive team must prevent an arms shipment from reaching militants while avoiding kinetic escalation — civilian control, military readiness, and diplomatic consequence collide.
Mastico / Qumar arms-transfer crisis: executive team must prevent an arms shipment from reaching militants while avoiding kinetic escalation — civilian control, military readiness, and diplomatic consequence collide.
Events in This Arc
An impromptu situation room forms in a North Carolina barn as President Bartlet and his senior advisers abruptly shift from debate prep to crisis mode after Israeli strikes in Qumar. …
In a late-night situation-room briefing President Bartlet is told the Qumari ship Mastico is carrying 72 tons of weapons, including a Multiple Launch Rocket System. Fitzwallace calls the MLRS's GPS …