Winning The War

I was too busy studying the readouts to notice him approaching, but luckily my guards managed to grab him before he could get his hands on me.

“MURDERER!” he screamed at me. I looked up.

“Can I help you… Colonel?”

“My men… All my men were on the western front which you just obliterated!”

I sighed.

“We lost a lot of good men. But our enemy has been practically wiped out, and the world has seen the full power of our satellite. The war is won, Colonel.”

And it was. But I didn’t realise we’d lost just the PR war…