At Fort Wainwright, Colonel Jake Caffey ( David Soul), a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, is sent by his commanding officer to locate the soldiers, who are 24 hours late in reporting back from the training exercise. A squad of 18 lightly-armed soldiers of the Alaska Army National Guard and Alaskan Scouts, which is on a training exercise, is discovered, ambushed, and killed by the Soviet invaders. The governments of Canada, Australia, and Argentina have joined the US in the embargo, which has caused severe food shortages and domestic unrest inside the Soviet Union. The operation is being conducted in response to the US grain embargo of the Soviet Union, just as the 1980 grain embargo was in response to the 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. Vorashin's orders are to seize control of a strategically-located pumping station along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline to threaten the placement of floating explosive devices in the stream of oil and to destroy substantial portions of the pipeline. The Soviets have inserted a cold weather Spetsnaz assault force of approximately 35 to 40 KGB desant ski troops led by Soviet Colonel Alexander Vorashin ( Jeroen Krabbé) into northern Alaska with a track-driven armored vehicle. Out of the plane, the Soviets launch a secret incursion into Alaska. The necessary blind spot has been created in the radar for the plane to continue undetected into Alaska. It is learned later that the traitor was a deep cover KGB operative who had been in the Air Force for 15 years. Lighting a cigarette, the traitor notifies Elmendorf that the station will be out of commission for the next hour to repair a malfunctioning generator. He then proceeds to shoot the remaining station personnel while they are sleeping in their bunks. The other Airman retrieves a silenced MAC-10 from his desk and kills him. He alerts his partner about the threat and begins to contact Elmendorf AFB. Suddenly, one of the radar operators notices an unidentified aircraft sneaking in on the leading edge of a weather front. At the critical point of the Cold War, two US Air Force airmen monitor their radar screens at a quiet and remote NORAD facility in Alaska. ( August 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise.
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