If he was feeling paranoid about that possibility, he was justified. The U.S. military’s complete helplessness against the magical assets of the emerging Native American Nations still rankled. The subsequent loss of large chunks of territory and the break-up of the old United States remained an unhealed wound in many quarters. There were scars deeper than Vietnam on the UCAS body politic and on the country’s military. It would take something on the order of a Desert Storm for a payback.