The Enterprise: Book 1

By Donald L. Schilling

The Enterprise is a fictional City-State formed by a few of the many members of the US Military, Engineers, and Scientists who participated in World War II (WWII), as well as the wars and 'Police Actions' that followed. At first, the Enterprise was merely a privately held company that designed electronic equipment, robot-warriors, and weapons which they sold to the US Armed Services. In order to help pay the bills, one of the Founders of the Company, who was extremely well versed in buying and selling Securities, used his talent for the Company's benefit. After a short time, the Enterprise bought an Island near the Bahama Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, and declared itself a Country, the Enterprise Isle.

The Island was protected from attack by the use of the weapons it had developed. (These weapons may well be the weapons used by the US, its Allies, and its Enemies by 2035).

After repeated attacks, these enemy countries, having lost planes and ships, as well as countless members of their armed forces decided not to annoy this new Country. Thus, the Enterprise grew in wealth and gained the respect of the Nations of the world. During the intervening years, it developed an Engineering and a Medical School that were the among the best in the world and employed equipment found nowhere else.

By 2020, the Enterprise was one of the 5 wealthiest countries in the world. Its GDP was $10T in 2020, and its philosophy was to trade with any country that would trade fairly with them. Any company, or country, that dealt unfairly, suffered severe consequences. Indeed, it had already become known that the Enterprise had weapons that could destroy any country in the world with little damage to itself.

The Enterprise's primary objectives were to provide for its 4 million Citizens, and to try not to interfere in other countries' business.

This second item was not always easy to accomplish. After all, we all have friends!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
• Release date: Dec 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9798885050661

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Prologue

2017

The new permanent representative of Iran to the United Nations, Gholamali Khoshroo, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in February 2015. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Khoshroo was his country’s ambassador to Switzerland. From 1989 to 1995, Mr. Khoshroo was deputy permanent representative to the United Nations. He also served from 1981 to 1997 as dean of the School for International Relations, affiliated with Iran’s Foreign Ministry. Mr. Khoshroo has degrees from Tehran University and the New School of Social Research in New York and has published several articles and books on political and cultural affairs. He was a nondescript individual and extremely loyal to Iran, which has given him all the luxuries that came with these political positions.

In October 2018, Rachel Martinson, the US ambassador to the UN, listened quietly while the Iranian ambassador vigorously denied the Iranian attack on the Saudi Arabian oil processing stations that provided 30 percent of the world’s oil.

The UN session about Iran aiding Yemen’s attack on the Saudi Arabian oil fields was in progress. Iranian Ambassador Khoshroo then turned his attention to the devastation of all the Iranian oil fields by the Enterprise. He demanded reparations; he said there would be a vengeful response by Iran on all of Europe if they did not condemn this diseased country: the Enterprise. Our weapons will destroy our enemies as explained by Allah, he concluded.

Rachel had already asked to respond, and the UN secretary-general turned to her to speak. She rose, turned toward the Iranian ambassador, and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank the Iranian ambassador for his clear, well-explained monologue, in which he denied a prior video presentation to the UN by the United States clearly showing Iran loading and launching drones from Iran, flying these drones across Yemen, and these same drones wantonly destroying numerous Saudi oil fields. This video was streamed live to China, Russia, and to all the other members of the UN Security Council. These oil fields were not protected by the Saudi military, since no one had ever, in the numerous wars fought among the Middle East nations, destroyed oil fields before. This same ambassador condemned the Enterprise, acting in conjunction with the USA, for destroying the Iranian oil fields. He did this without having any evidence whatsoever that such an event ever occurred, except the wisdom gained by, perhaps, fine scotch and wine, which the Iranian ambassador was known to enjoy on a most regular basis—"

These last few words were drowned out by the shrieking of the Iranian ambassador, That is a lie, a lie! This is what happens when an American whore comes to the UN—

The Iranian ambassador was cut off by the control of the microphones by the UN secretary-general, who said, Ladies and gentlemen, the UN was formed to foster peaceful communication between nations in order to avoid wars. We have always taken great pain to avoid personal insults. I believe an apology is in order, both by the American ambassador and the Iranian ambassador. Please, Ambassador Martinson.

With this, the secretary-general turned to the US ambassador Rachel Martinson, who responded, Ladies and gentlemen, when one must accept lies and apologize for speaking the truth, we should end this farce we call the United Nations.

At this point, the secretary-general tried to turn off the microphones but found that he no longer had control of the electronics. And Ambassador Martinson’s microphone remained on.

She continued, The ambassador from Iran is clearly a liar. He and that terrorist nation that he represents is symptomatic of what is wrong with this world. Yes, we should talk, but we must be honest with one another. Otherwise, all that we are doing is wasting the money of each of our countries! I move for a vote to condemn Iran and to set sanctions commensurate with their heinous crime of destroying a major portion of the oil reserves of our world.

At this point, the US ambassador turned off her microphone and sat down.

Typical in UN proceedings, Russia threatened to veto any motion for reparations, and instead, meaningless sanctions against Iran were approved.

Two days later, Ambassador Martinson left the UN at twelve noon and took a taxi service to East Fifty-Fifth and Third Avenue to meet with an old friend at the Sun Palace restaurant. Due to the traffic, she exited the cab on Fifty-Fifth Street at the corner of Third Avenue and walked on the north side of the street toward the restaurant. She never noticed the pleasant-looking six-foot-tall young man standing on the corner.

Target just arrived, he said in Romanian over his cell phone. Your intelligence is perfect as usual. He then disconnected the call, as did the party he called.

The Romanian was a terrorist who worked for several of the Middle East countries. He did this through an agent, who booked his jobs and received 20 percent of the gross receipt from each job. Some of the jobs were complicated and took him weeks to complete. Even this job, the US ambassador to the UN, was slightly complicated: he had to have a few seconds of close-in time with the ambassador so that he could fire the poison-tipped dart. He and his agent had worked together since he was twenty-one years old and had just graduated from the University of Bucharest. His agent was then his professor of biology, and the two became friendly, talking after class about their own interests and problems. The agent had clearly investigated the young terrorist-to-be and believed him to be a suitable student. And indeed he was. During the next three years, this duo of terrorists killed more than thirty victims, about one per month.

This target was the largest case yet. Kill the victim and leave the country. Thirty million in US dollars will be delivered, as always. The Romanian removed a small pistol, designed to shoot a single dart. After it struck its target, the dart was designed to disintegrate within the victim’s body within thirty seconds. As with any weapon, the terrorist had become proficient in his weapon’s operation, since his life depended on it, and he preferred to remain alive.

He quickly approached the ambassador, and shielding the gun from any nearby people, he started to pull the trigger. No problem, he thought, not even a lot of people, and there was her friend to greet her—how nice to have a screaming audience. But then, as his right-hand trigger finger almost touched the gun’s trigger, the Romanian vanished! His gun slid to the floor. The ambassador entered the Sun Palace for an excellent lunch with Bill Mulligan, president of the Enterprise Organization.

Several days earlier, the Professor, director of the Department of Defense of the Enterprise Organization, received a phone call from Pete Rogers who had been following Ambassador Martinson using a satellite. Pete was a member of the Defense Department at the Enterprise and had picked up communications between the Iranian Embassy and the Romanian. The Enterprise personnel knew the Romanian, and they had told him many times to stay away from the US and from Israel. The same day that Rachel had heaped scalding criticism on Iran and their UN ambassador, Pete had picked up that first call from the Iranian Embassy. He then monitored the Romanian as he left Bucharest from the Henri Coandă International Airport, boarded a plane to Ottawa, and then the next day, met a colleague for breakfast at the Four Seasons Hotel in Ottawa. They then drove to Montreal, arriving at 2:00 p.m. During the rush hour, at about 5:00 p.m., they crossed the border and drove to Albany. The Romanian had used a Canadian passport and passed right through immigration without delay. The following day, they arrived in New York City. The Romanian then checked in with the Iranian Embassy, who had been following the US ambassador. When the Embassy explained the luncheon appointment the next day at the Sun Palace and told him she would take a taxi, he requested a photo be taken of her and sent to his phone. He said he would then finish the job. All this was overheard by Enterprise personnel, who gave it to Pete Rogers. Pete briefed the Professor, who told Pete to terminate the Romanian before the Romanian terminated the US ambassador. Pete had worked with the Professor before, and when he later called the Professor, he just said, The gun is all that’s left, to which the Professor remarked, Thanks, nice touch!

1

1945: The Enterprise

The Enterprise began just after WWII ended. When our soldiers came home, they had changed. They had made new friends. Some of them had worked in Intelligence (the OSS—Office of Strategic Services—was the forerunner of our CIA as well as some of the other current US Intelligence agencies); some had worked in aviation, fixing airplanes and flying them; but most had worked as soldiers killing enemy soldiers. A few of their officers in these fields formed companies, hiring people with similar skills to provide these services to the US Military as mercenaries. Some of these companies grew in size, acquiring the smaller companies. They all understood that loyalty was extremely important.

After the Korean War ended, a new group of people were recruited by and joined these companies. And after the Vietnam War ended, another battle-hardened group came home, looking for a job!

The largest and most successful of these companies was the Enterprise. Indeed, by 1970, the Enterprise consisted of approximately one million employees and had purchased an island in the Bahamas. They then declared themselves a city-state, like Singapore. Many of their employees claimed dual citizenship with the USA. This island, called L’Isle de L’Enterprise, or simply the Enterprise, contained manufacturing facilities for satellites, drones, and other specialized aerial vehicles capable of flying at supersonic speeds not even achieved by the USA. The Enterprise’s weaponry, robotics, and intelligence equipment were beyond compare, and as in any such venture, the company was periodically subjected to spying by agents from other countries. To date, each spy has disappeared and has not been heard from. The island has no prisons and no police.

The primary residence of the directors of the Enterprise and some of the other Enterprise employees is located in southeast Florida, in Jupiter, and is named the Enterprise Golf and Country Club. This country club is contained within two square miles and consists of a hundred homes, each situated on three acres of land, which includes a two-car garage, a two-golf-cart garage, and a hangar to keep a STOL (short take-off and landing vehicle). The club has two eighteen-hole golf courses designed and built for the Enterprise by Jack Williams, tennis courts, and a fitness center with an adjoining pool. The first floor of the two-story club house has two restaurants, cardrooms, and meeting rooms. The upper floor is much smaller and is for relaxed dining with a full 360-degree view of the two surrounding golf courses and a two-hundred-acre lake which extends throughout the entire property. The lake can be accessed by rowboats with small electric motors and is stocked with largemouth bass and garfish.

The entrance to the club is from Indiantown Road and then through a winding picturesque road to a guard shack. Admission to the Enterprise G&CC and the use of facilities are strictly limited to members of the Enterprise and their guests. The boundary of the property is protected by an eight-foot wall and laser beams. Shrubs are located around both sides of the wall. On the ground, inside the wall, is an array of IEDs (improvised explosive device) that are able to be set or reset at the security office. The local satellite control center, located in the security office, monitors the surroundings. Warning signs are posted in English and Spanish along the wall, stating clearly that this private property belongs to the Enterprise and trespassers may be killed. To date, no one has entered the property illegally and lived to speak of it.

In addition, the Enterprise owns a private marina, with a clubhouse and hotel for Enterprise employees and guests. The marina is three acres, with a white sandy beach, and can dock about fifty ships. The top floor of the hotel is for relaxed dining and has a 360-degree view of the ocean on the east and the sunset and intracoastal waterway on the west.

The Enterprise is currently headed by its president, Bill Mulligan, who holds an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering, from UC Berkley, a PhD degree in medical science from Stanford, and an MD from Stanford University. The Department of Security is headed by the director of security Tom Halliday, who holds a PhD in robotics and automation from MIT. The Department of Defense is headed by the Professor, who has a PhD in electrical engineering and who is an expert in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) as well as wireless weapon systems. Lastly, the Department of Trade and Finance is directed by Sam Levinsky, who holds a PhD in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Levinsky recently received the Nobel Award in Economics for his work in the field of maximizing world wealth. Sam is responsible for growing the Enterprise wealth to $10 Trillion (T) in 2020, by about 14 percent each year. He achieved this result by buying and selling companies throughout the world (the total wealth in the world is about $400T, of which $100T is located in the USA).

In addition to L’Isle de L’Enterprise, the Enterprise owns and operates office buildings in cities throughout the world. The major buildings in the USA, owned by the Enterprise Corporation, are in New York City and in Washington, DC. The financial operation is in Manhattan, near the Liberty Tower (After 9/11, the Liberty Tower replaced the World Trade Center as a physical entity, but not in our hearts), and the political operation is in Washington, DC, on Pennsylvania Avenue, a few blocks from the White House.

Another NY location is a two-story office building near the JFK International Airport on Long Island, New York, which is used for Operations. This building is the center for worldwide intelligence collection by the Enterprise, and it coordinates Enterprise activities, controlling satellites and drones that operate throughout the world and at the Enterprise’s Moon and Mars facilities, each with their myriad of antennas which feed information back to the collection center. The information collected is sorted and distributed to the relevant sites. In addition, the Enterprise employees are each directly connected to one another through the Enterprise Cloud, which is also controlled by equipment in this building.

On L’Isle de L’Enterprise, there are two universities, private homes and apartments for the employees, and a hotel for guests. Here, the Enterprise manufactures and maintains its own fleet of nuclear-powered submarines and warships, each warship resembling a floating island.

The Floating Islands are huge warships and can travel at a speed of eighty knots using solar power derived from the sun’s rays and a nuclear power backup. Each can be operated remotely and can cloak itself to be invisible to ships and planes.

Each island is 2,600 feet long, 800 feet wide, and 20 stories high and houses six hundred drones and fifty STOLs. Each warship is armed with nine cannons, each firing nuclear-carrying shells; six nuclear-missile launchers; and six laser guns. The laser guns use 100kW lasers in a special design to project light, equivalent to 10 percent of the sun’s power. These laser weapons are far more powerful than those developed by India, Romania, or the USA. To protect the warship from submarines, each island also contains twelve torpedo tubes which fire nuclear-tipped torpedoes. Each of these ships is protected by radar and sonar systems as well as by satellites and drones. The satellites and drones can be made to appear invisible. As such, each warship is rightfully considered the most dangerous city in the world!

The L’Isle de L’Enterprise scientists and engineers also design and manufacture the Enterprise’s own satellites and drones, as well as a special class of plane called a STOL (short take-off and landing) vehicle, which has the ability to take off and land like a helicopter and to fly like a very high-speed jet, capable of speeds exceeding Mach 10 (which is a bit more than 7,500 miles per hour).

The STOL can also stop in midair. Utilizing this vertical takeoff feature permits takeoff and landing in tight locations. The STOL also contains a number of other interesting features. One is the ability to be invisible to any ground or airborne radar. This cloaking device consists of a radar system which is distributed on the STOL and which detects any incident electromagnetic signals sent by an external transmitter. Instead of reflecting the incident energy, the receiver of the STOL’s radar is designed to absorb the signal’s energy. Reflections from this system are attenuated by 60 dB and therefore not seen by any ground-based or air-based radar system. Further, the cloaking device also records the cloud cover present and transmits reflections from the clouds back to the ground radar observer.

The STOL contains a military command center, allowing it to select targets and fire small rockets in order to destroy the targets. The tip of each rocket contains a small tactical nuclear bomb. This extra explosive power enables the rockets to be smaller and of less weight.

A drone is another name for an unattended aerial vehicle (UAV)—that is, there is no pilot onboard a drone, which is controlled remotely by radio. The drones used by the Enterprise were developed in conjunction with the Israeli Aircraft Industry (IAI), and the electronics used to construct the drones were designed and built at the Enterprise Laboratories. The Enterprise Navy consists of four nuclear-powered submarines and the Floating Islands, which are used in the Pacific Ocean to protect Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, should they need protection, and also in the Middle East, providing protection of Enterprise interests in this region.

Instead of employing army, air force, and navy personnel, the Enterprise deploys Avatars.

The Avatar is an optical representation of the user. The user employs a headset which transforms the brain waves of the user into physical action performed at a specific remote location. Thus, if the user thinks about standing, the Avatar will stand. Another characteristic is that the system transmits energy to the Avatar so that it can shake hands with someone or actually crush the person’s hand. The Avatar can be anywhere, either visible or invisible (cloaked).

The benefits of the Avatar system are many, including going somewhere while not really being there and not being hurt if your Avatar is struck by a bullet or even a bomb! The Avatar can also be armed, and the weapon of choice is an energy gun, which directs an extremely high concentration of light energy at a target, causing the target to disappear in several seconds.

1962: In the beginning, initial research

The Professor was very active in his field of artificial intelligence and robotics. He, along with some of his colleagues, many of whom taught at Stanford University and at MIT, had, in 1962, already developed robots that could be used for warfare. They were in the midst of a joint-campus research and development program that enabled a soldier located in a vehicle to communicate with a satellite, which, in turn, communicated with drones, armored vehicles, and robotic soldiers on the field of battle.

Another battlefield application enabled a medic, while on the battlefield, to communicate over the horizon with a medical doctor at Fort Reid, using a transmitted communication signal having a very wide spectrum. In this spread spectrum communication system, the enemy could not detect, nor could the enemy jam the communications. The doctor at Fort Reid could then control a robot to perform an operation, which, if delayed, could result in the death of the wounded soldier.

This program began under President John Kennedy and continued during Lyndon Johnson’s presidency.

In 1965, the Enterprise took control of the entire program and hired the entire team. The participants agreed that only fundamental results would be published—the rest would be kept classified. The Enterprise would not be mentioned. Off-campus laboratories were built near MIT and Stanford, with a primary laboratory built at the L’Isle de L’Enterprise. It was in this primary laboratory that construction of all vehicles, weapons, and communications systems was done. Tom Halliday was the director of all the Enterprise laboratories.

During this time, the Professor began leveraging the Enterprise’s RADAR system (RADAR is an acronym for radio detection and ranging device, and it was first used in WWII), which transmitted a signal consisting of one or more frequencies toward a target. The signal was then reflected from the target, back to the Enterprise’s RADAR system. Measuring the round-trip time—that is, the time it takes the RADAR signal to reach the target, plus the time of the reflected signal to reach the RADAR—provided sufficient information for the RADAR system to determine the range of the target and its velocity. The Professor then designed and built a RADAR that could be used to direct an energy gun, to focus massive amounts of energy on the target, resulting in its destruction.

The Professor also designed a means to render an Enterprise operative, plane, ship, or other vehicle invisible and therefore could not be used as a target by an enemy. This cloak of invisibility was developed to be generated by the outer skin of the target, which was typically metal. To avoid detection, the Enterprise designed the skin of its weapons to absorb those frequencies being transmitted by the RADAR by painting the metallic skin with an absorbent paint in such a way that the radar receiver received no energy. That is, the target became invisible to the radar.

To demonstrate that result, the Enterprise team built a satellite and a drone, each with an outside frame capable of absorbing energy at those frequencies being transmitted by enemy radars. In later years, the absorbent paint was replaced by a system employing light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which measured the incident RADAR signal’s frequencies and did not reflect those frequencies.

This cloak of invisibility was first used by the Enterprise in the 1967 Israeli war.

1965: Donna, the ultimate receptionist

In the 1960s, telephone switchboards and their operators were still being used at many office and government buildings. The managers of the Enterprise had a telephone switchboard problem. If an outside caller knew a department’s phone number or the direct dial phone number of the Enterprise employee was being called, there was no delay connecting the outside call to the appropriate party. But if a person called looking for information, the Enterprise switchboard operator would have to connect to an Enterprise employee who could be anywhere in the world, and such a conversation might have to occur immediately. Looking at the calls received by the Enterprise switchboard operators over the years, the managers of the Enterprise realized that at least five hundred switchboard operators were needed daily. Since these operators would not have immediate recall of the locations of all the members that might have to be called, a look-up delay would still be incurred.

One day, the Professor was having lunch with a professor from Stanford University. They were discussing the sorry state of telecom switchboards. They had an idea. All calls could come into a single central Enterprise office. In this office could be a single robot (the robot was later named Donna). Donna contained a huge memory, connected to the world’s fastest multi-CPU (central processing unit) computer. Donna knew everything, being connected to such a huge memory. She knew where each member of the Enterprise was, as she used the Enterprise tracking system that follows the Enterprise directors and anyone else that requires such tracking. She also knew what was going on in each department and who is in charge of each project. One of the computer programs developed for Donna resulted in anyone calling immediately having his/her voice analyzed and compared to all the other voices on file. Thus, Donna also knew everyone who ever called—or received a call. The Enterprise expanded the system to permit an Enterprise member to store notes in an auxiliary memory that is also available to Donna. Accessing the computer’s memory is done by wirelessly accessing the Enterprise Cloud. Not only did members of the Enterprise have access to the Cloud, Donna also had access, and when someone called, Donna could intelligently become involved and converse with that person.

Indeed, as time progressed, Donna conversed with the good, the great, and the wicked and even had friendly relationships with some of these people.

2

The Israeli War of 1967

The Professor walked into Florio’s restaurant, located on Fifty-Second Street, west of Eighth Avenue; said hello to the owner and Chef Anthony Calabrese; and walked upstairs to the private dining room. The other directors of the Enterprise were already there, and Bill Mulligan was talking: To put it simply, the countries surrounding Israel, including Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Iraq, have agreed to jointly attack Israel. They are currently moving tanks and artillery a little closer to the border every day. Nasser [of Egypt] is ramping up his rhetoric. He just signed a defense treaty with Jordan. We have each looked into various aspects of this problem, and we agreed that we shall ensure that Israel will not lose.

The Professor sat down at the table, reached for the already poured glass of Brunello di Montalcino, bit into a piece of briolata (an Italian bread stuffed with sausage and peppers), and tasted the wine. Delicious, he said.

Bill continued, Now that the Professor has arrived and is eating his bread and wine, perhaps he can tell us what will happen next.

The Professor shifted into his professorial stance. Let me show you what it is that we are all really fighting for, he said. With that, he took his cell phone out of his pocket, turned it on, laid the phone face up on the table, and pushed a button on the bottom of the phone. Immediately, two screens extended from each side of the phone, so that the new screen area was five times larger than before. He then tapped an icon marked Israel, and three maps appeared.

The Professor then said, These maps show the original Israel at about 950 BC. This was the era of Solomon and David. Note that Damascus, Syria, is shown as part of David’s kingdom in 970 BC. Further south we see Jerusalem, Beersheba, and the Dead Sea, which was still part of Solomon’s kingdom in 930 BC. Then came a period where wars were lost, people were taken as slaves, and the area partitioned. What was given to Israel after the 1948 War of Independence is shown on the second map to be much smaller. Now, what we are going to do is to change the border once again. When we are done tomorrow, the borders of Israel shall be the entire region from Egypt on the south, Lebanon on the north, the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and Jordan on the east. These boundaries are defensible. Israel will gain the West Bank, Sinai, and Gaza. If Jordan or Egypt want to have peace, it is my opinion Israel may be able to use some of the land to negotiate to achieve that goal.

The Enterprise’s goal was to give Israel a natural eastern border defined by the Jordan River and the Dead Sea, a natural southern border defined by the Red Sea, a natural western border defined by the Mediterranean Sea, and a northern border defined by Lebanon and Syria.

Prior to this 1967 war, Syria had continually bombed Israel, using ground and air forces hidden in the Golan Heights. Lebanon, in 1967, was relatively peaceful and run by a peaceful consortium of Christians and Muslims; they were not considered a threat at that time.

Then, almost as an afterthought, the Professor added, I spoke with General Aretz yesterday. He and I worked this plan out together. I told him there was no problem. The Muslims are starting it, and we will help Israel finish it. We will use this war to get Israel back to where they were in 1949! We will employ our large satellite stationed over Tel Aviv, and in the Mediterranean Sea, we will have one of our Floating Islands carrying our drones. Since we do not want anyone to know that the Enterprise is involved, our satellite and the Island will be invisible, and our part of the battle will be completed in about fifteen minutes.

Why did you come here if you knew all the answers? asked Sam the accountant.

Simple—I wanted a free meal at Florio’s, said the Professor laughingly. Do y’all agree? asked the Professor. If so, let’s enjoy our meal. The war should be over by tomorrow. But it will take time to clean up the mess. There will be blowback by the UN, of course.

Everyone agreed, and they continued their discussion with a delicious meal of cold antipasto, followed by an assortment of pasta, chicken, and veal dishes. For dessert, the Professor always ordered Florio’s Italian cheesecake. The meeting ended at about 4 p.m., each going to his own destination.

The Professor’s limo moved in front of Florio’s front door as soon as his driver saw him exit.

The driver, named Chuck, pushed a button on the driver’s console that opened the back, passenger door, and the Professor slid into his seat. Chuck then hit the Close button, and the door closed.

"STOL?" Chuck asked.

Yes, but no rush. I have calls to make, replied the Professor. The Professor took a wireless phone from a table that was situated between him and the front passenger seat. This phone transmitted to an Enterprise telecommunication satellite using a signal whose frequency was modulated, using spread spectrum technology, to prohibit anyone but the intended receiver to answer. Any other radio operating on the same radio frequency would only hear noise.

The Professor touched a button, and the phone rang. General Aretz answered.

"General, you will order your troops to attack the Syrians, Jordanians, and the Egyptians, simultaneously, at one a.m., Israeli time. The Arab troops, planes, tanks, etc. will have already been destroyed or almost destroyed. Do not move out of your positions until one a.m., or your troops may be on the receiving end of our missiles. Take all the land west of the Jordan River, all of Syria west of and including Golan, and all of the Sinai, North of Egypt, including Gaza. Stop advancing only when you must! Ignore any demands to a ceasefire from the UN, US, France, or anyone else. We will be monitoring all communications in and out of the region, and we will tell you when to stop. Your troops will take credit for a job well done. We were not involved. Nothing can go wrong because we will be there. Everything you capture will once again belong to Israel!"

Professor, thank you, said Aretz. How can I ever thank you properly?

Take me to lunch at a good Israeli / Middle Eastern restaurant, the Professor said.

So, you want an invitation to my home? Granted! Aretz replied.

I like your humor. Speak to you later, said the Professor, ending the call.

June 5, 1967: The battle

The Enterprise satellite was placed above Tel Aviv. It was invisible to enemy radar, and the Enterprise radar had a coverage area that included all the proposed battlefield. The Enterprise placed its Floating Island in the Mediterranean, west of Tel Aviv, and set it so that it was invisible to the human eye and enemy radar. It carried a hundred drones. Each drone carried two machine guns, each using a cartridge designed to fire a 0.5 caliber 240-grain bullet (a one-grain bullet weighs 1/7000 of a pound), which travels at a speed of 2,100 fps using 240 grains of powder and modified to contain a nuclear warhead tip. When fired, this beast generates 25,400 foot-pounds of muzzle energy and 277 foot-pounds of recoil energy. The nuclear warhead, when it hits its target, will totally disintegrate a tank, a plane, or a concrete building. Each of the drones’ cameras was directed to a different tank and provided a real-time view of the attack from the specific vantage point. The drones were totally invisible to the enemy tanks. The Floating Island was protected by the satellite that was being used to monitor the battle so that the four directors of the Enterprise could watch the entire battle unfold from their present location.

The Sinai at 12:45 a.m.: The Egyptian tanks had moved up to the Sinai-Israeli border, ready for a sneak attack the next morning at 5:00 a.m. This time was chosen so that they could first say their morning prayers to ensure they had Allah’s blessing. Five hundred Egyptian tanks were stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Israeli city of Eilat in the Gulf of Aqaba. The Israelis had thirty tanks! The Egyptians had parked their tanks and were waiting for the 5:00 a.m. call to battle. They were relaxed and assured that their British-trained tank personnel would readily destroy the Israelis and then drive their tanks to Tel Aviv.

The drones took off from the Floating Island and each moved slowly and quietly, like a light breeze. Once they reached the battlefield, they started to destroy one tank after another until every vehicle was destroyed and the soldiers were either dead or wounded. As the drones returned to their carrier, General Aretz was notified. Send your troops and tanks into the Sinai and take it. Also take Gaza. If their soldiers resist, kill them. The Enterprise’s Floating Island command center also told Aretz to try to reach Port Said and the Suez Canal before the UN demanded a ceasefire. As the Israeli Southwest Army brigades moved through Gaza, they forced an almost immediate surrender by the Palestinians who lived there. The Southern Tank Brigade attacked what appeared to be the Egyptian positions, only to find destroyed tanks and dead Egyptians.

At the same time, the Floating Island also sent some of its drones across Israel, and in a manner similar to the destruction of the Egyptian army, these drones destroyed the area defined as the West Bank. The Jordanian Army waited on the Jordanian side of the river, assuming that the Israeli soldiers would be stopped by their superior artillery. However, the Jordanian army saw what appeared to be lightning from the sky followed by enormous explosions. They never saw the drones. The Jordanian army radioed Jordanian Headquarters for direction, but by the time the direction came ordering them to retreat, since there was no target to aim at, the lightning had caught them. Indeed, the onslaught continued until almost all the weapons were destroyed and all the soldiers in the West Bank were killed. Special care was taken not to do any damage near Jerusalem or any other Israeli cities. Then the lightning moved on, crossing the Jordan River and moving toward Amman, the capital of Jordan.

Then, the bombing stopped suddenly. After a thirty-minute pause, it started once more, this time with Israeli tanks, planes, and soldiers marching east, killing and taking prisoners on their march toward Amman.

At the same time, 3:45 a.m., five drones veered to the north and destroyed the Syrian outposts near the Golan Heights. Lebanon had almost immediately declared their neutrality, and the drone strikes moved northeast from the Golan toward Damascus.

At 4:30 a.m., all the Enterprise drones were back on the Floating Island, and the warship moved westward into the Mediterranean Sea. General Aretz, the Enterprise admiral said, it is now up to you. We have all our drones back, and we are leaving.

The Israeli troops, planes, and tanks then began their cleanup on all fronts simultaneously, successfully capturing Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Syria’s Golan Heights, and the territories of the West Bank, which had been held by Jordan since 1948.

The Russians, when told what was happening, were very upset and called the UN into a special session. By midnight, New York time, the UN demanded a cease-fire by all sides (which, of course, was intended to stop the Israeli advance). When the USA joined the chorus demanding the cease-fire, the Israeli delegation reluctantly agreed.

The Israeli ambassador to the UN, in a famous speech accepting the cease-fire, remarked:

While we agree conditionally to the cease-fire proposed by the UN Security Council, we do so with reservations. The purpose of this cease-fire is to establish peace and tranquility in our region. Israel would like nothing more. We are a wealthy region, and being at peace with one another can only make us all wealthier. This requires that we all agree to live and let live. These countries that surround us have adopted a philosophy that Israel must not exist. Clearly, we cannot agree with that. These countries that surround us have attacked us before and, in 1948, succeeded in annexing a very large part of what was promised to us by a much younger UN. This land properly belongs to Israel. It was the land promised to Abraham and to us, his children, by God. It is so written in the Bible, the same Bible that is used by all our countries. These countries that surround us have been, for the past several months, moving weapons, personnel, and fortifications to our old borders, and when we complained to this august body, the UN Security Council, we were told that Israel is belligerent. We are not belligerent. You, the UN Security Council, are the belligerent members of this organization. Even now, you are demanding that we enable a cease-fire that can last indefinitely, during which time these countries that surround us can rearm and then attack us once again. Such a cease-fire is unacceptable.

We demand that a peace agreement be signed by the countries that surround Israel and guaranteed by the members of the UN Security Council—an agreement that guarantees that Israel is a country for the Jewish people. Everything else can be negotiated.

If the countries that surround Israel cannot agree to such a simple peace agreement within twenty-four hours, then no amount of time will result in one. Israel will have no alternative but to totally destroy its neighbors! Then we will have peace.

The Israeli government was forced by the UN to sign the weak cease-fire agreement (privately, the Enterprise explained that although they agreed with Israel, one could not expect that an agreement created by force would long endure. The Enterprise said that they would guarantee the cease-fire agreement).

On June 19, 1967, shortly after the cease-fire agreement was signed, the Israeli government voted to offer to return the Sinai to Egypt and the Golan Heights to Syria in exchange for a permanent peace settlement and a demilitarization of the returned territories. Only Egypt agreed. Since Syria did not agree, the Golan Heights remained an Israeli possession.

The US president during the 1967 Israeli war was Lyndon B. Johnson. Eleven days after the cease-fire agreement was signed, President Johnson proposed the first of many peace agreements. He failed. President Jimmy Carter arranged for the first peace agreement signing between Sadat (Egypt) and Begin (Israel) in 1978. Sadat was assassinated by Muslim terrorists, three years later, in 1981! Egypt and Israel are still at peace. In 1994, Israel and Jordan signed a peace agreement.

Today, in 2021, as a result of President Winner’s leadership, peace agreements are being made by Israel and each of their neighbors.

1970: The Professor

In 1970, the Professor flew from Florida into Israel’s Lod Airport. He was accompanied by Tom Halliday. The Professor used his STOL to reduce the flying time to two hours. They landed at a part of the airport reserved for military planes and were met and greeted by Gen. Ariel Aretz. They entered General Aretz’s limousine and drove out of the airport. No security check was needed since these men were allies and also good friends.

Aretz looked at the Americans not so much younger than he but in much better physical condition. Indeed, Aretz thought, I was born in what is now Israel, in 1928, when it was part of the British Protectorate of Palestine. I joined the Haganah at fourteen and have been in one war after another all my life. This was not a good reason for my poor health, but it would have to do. American generals were always in great physical shape, slim and athletic, always jogging. Where did they find the time? The interest? Perhaps because the Americans were usually at peace, not at war. The Professor was interesting to look at, twenty-five years old and a professor of engineering. Also, he looked to be about six feet and six inches tall and about 250 pounds. They told me he was a quarterback in college and was already a key member of the Enterprise team. Nice-looking with an easy smile—but deadly. No compunction about killing, a fact that he demonstrated whenever needed, as he just did in the ’67 war!

Before Aretz had ever met the Professor, the then director of Mossad Zev Maltz once told him a story regarding this Professor, that when the Professor was first teaching in the university, three student gang members tried to take money from him. He told them he was on the way to the school toilet to pee and then he would give them what they asked for, but he had to pee first. They agreed and went into the toilet with him. He killed all three with his bare hands. He then washed his hands and walked out. A friend of the gang members asked about his friends, and he replied they were dividing the money. He went in and found them. When he came out, the