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Madurai posted:I haven't read Third World War in It's not exactly entertaining. There's a brief intro narrative about the first combat of the war, but after that it takes a long, long time to get going. We're talking hundreds of pages on (fictional) "White Paper" analysis of third-world economies. If you make it through that the book gets a lot more engaging. The scenario he postulates seems wonderfully dated now - Iran is our staunch ally, for example, and his take on South Africa (Apartheid) looks quite embarrassing in retrospect.
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Madurai posted:IIRC, the right wing nuttery doesn't really pick up steam until Clear and Present Danger, when Clancy had grown beyond control of an editor. I sort of met - more like "was in the same room with and was introduced to" - him in the mid 90's at a Naval History conference; I attended because I was a museum curator at the time. It was awful. He was utterly full of himself and talking down to everyone, lecturing everyone who would listen to his - views - in a room full of Admirals and PhD historians. They were all such professionals that they were quite polite to him, even though he came off as a fool. It was just embarrassingly ugly. If he wasn't such a fatuous prick I would have felt bad for him.
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