Will cyber warfare play a bigger role in future combat? Will kinetic weapons be sufficient to win a war? Is it possible to successfully coordinate attacks in every domain: air, land, sea, space, and cyber? And will artificial intelligence be required to make important decisions in battle?

These questions and many more come into play as Colonel Walker's special signal intercept team from Overhead Assets returns in Cyber Games to collect command, control, and computer data at Subi Reef, one of the Chinese Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. Their success is critical to keeping open the shipping lanes for the Pacific nations and the US-and they must do so without starting World War III.