The Twilight War: The Secret History Of America's Thirty-Year Conflict With Iran - Plot & Excerpts
said Captain Kevin Healy to his boss, Admiral James “Ace” Lyons, during a short break between meetings. The executive officer did not consider the request by Admiral William Crowe anything remarkable. Since the crisis had begun with the Bridgeton, Crowe spoke daily to his longtime acquaintance in Hawaii. The chairman wanted new ideas on how to respond to the Iranian mining. Lyons served as a useful coadjutor to Crowe. Since Lyons worked for Crowe in the 1970s, Crowe had tapped Lyons, looking for ideas on fighting the Soviets and for ways to get things done, frequently outside of the normal channels. “Ace Lyons had a great mind,” Crowe said years later. “He loved imaginative and unorthodox solutions.”1 For Crowe, Lyons was a man who could get things done militarily in a way the more politically minded Crowe never could, all the while offering the chairman plausible deniability if things turned out ugly. Lyons picked up the phone as Healy went to his desk to listen in on another line.
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