Pericles One — Two Ammo Dumps
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Pericles One — Two Ammo Dumps is the specific mapped location-set forming the backbone of the presented proportional option; its schematic nature allows staff to discuss casualty estimates and feasibility clinically, which Bartlet rejects as morally insufficient.
Clinical and schematic on paper; dismissed emotionally by the President as inadequate retribution.
Operational target set for a measured retaliatory strike.
Represents routinized military problem-solving that can look morally hollow in the face of personal loss.
The two ammo dumps exist as mapped coordinates within the Pericles One plan; in this event they are invoked to illustrate the proportionality argument, their emptiness and predictability used by staff to argue restraint.
Cold, clinical — represented only as map pins and casualty estimates.
Schematic targets used to justify calibrated military action.
Symbolizes the transactional, tit-for-tat logic the President rejects as morally hollow.
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A breezy, collegial Situation Room moment—Admiral Fitzwallace jokes about the coffee—collapses the instant President Bartlet and Leo enter. Fitzwallace presents three measured, proportional retaliation plans; Bartlet, grieving and furious over …
In the Situation Room Admiral Fitzwallace calmly presents three calibrated, low-risk retaliatory scenarios built around the doctrine of proportional response. Bartlet, consumed by rage and grief over the downed airliner, …