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The story follows a boastful general who unveils a top-secret project: a vast, horizontally spinning contraption designed to deposit troops behind enemy defenses despite rockets and missiles. A nervous civilian defense official tours the installation, witnesses the machine and hears the general's confident explanations as security rituals and showmanship mask the plan's practical and ethical problems. Through comic detail and technological speculation, the narrative satirizes military bureaucracy, the faith in gadgetry to solve human dilemmas, and the dissonance between public spectacle and hidden vulnerabilities.