Celebration Night

Pentagon.

Inside a special meeting room.

A group of people sat at the conference table and watched the live CTV broadcast on the big screen without saying a word. When the group of soldiers armed to the nines appeared on the screen with drones behind them, almost everyone held their breath.

After the soldiers disappeared from the screen, whispers were heard in the conference room.

"I don't know what chance our rangers have against their paratroopers…" The first to break the silence was the Minister of Defense. He reached out his index finger and touched the coffee cup on the table. It took him several tries before he grabbed it. He pretended to be calm and took a sip. He then said, "We don't need any fancy armor. Fighting with a lithium battery is no different than carrying a bag of explosives."

These words comforted most people. After all, lithium batteries, which used active metals as electrodes, were more explosive than thermite.