For a young, cocky U.S. Senator, it's a political opportunity - a chance to unleash the Navy's latest technology. Enter the USS Arsenal: a floating weapons barge armed with Tomahawk, Harpoon, and anti-air missiles. So begins the first counterstrike in a major international skirmish.

For Admiral "Tombstone" Magruder of the USS Thomas Jefferson, it's a no-win situation. Suffering devastating losses in a reckless counterattack, Magruder and his crew are trapped between the violent excesses of Cuban revolutionaries... and a U.S. power play that's spun wildly out of control.