Category: Tom Clancy (author)
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Book Review: ‘Into the Storm: On the Ground in Iraq’ (Commanders’ Series, Book #1)
Into the Storm: On the Ground in Iraq By: Tom Clancy and Gen. Fred Franks. Jr. (Ret.) Publisher: Penguin Year of Publication: 2007 (Reissue) Genre: Military History/Biography, Middle East Conflicts, U.S. Army History 📘 Into the Storm: A Dual Lens on Courage, Command, and Transformation By Tom Clancy and Gen. Fred Franks Tom Clancy, the…
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Book Review: ‘Clear and Present Danger’
Clear and Present Danger By: Tom Clancy Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Year of Publication: 1989 Clear and Present Danger: When the War Comes Home Tom Clancy’s Clear and Present Danger marks a turning point in the Jack Ryan saga—and in Clancy’s own narrative ambitions. Gone are the Cold War chess matches and high-tech brinkmanship of…
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Book Review: ‘Special Forces – A Guided Tour of U.S. Army Special Forces’
📚 Review: Special Forces – A Guided Tour of U.S. Army Special Forces By John D. Gresham (with Tom Clancy)Berkley Books, 2001 | 366 pages | ISBN: 9780425172681Status: Out of print, but available via Internet Archive and select used book retailers. Publisher’s Blurb: They are sent to the world’s hot spots-on covert missions fraught with…
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Old Gamers Never Die (Sea Power Edition): ‘Desert Spear’ is a Fun But Inaccurate ‘Mod’
As many of my regular readers know, I’ve been a long-time fan of military-themed computer games, especially those set during World War II or in Cold War-turned-hot scenarios. I’ve been playing war games like Crusade in Europe, Silent Service II, M1 Tank Platoon, and Strategic Command WWII: World at War since the late 1980s, and…
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Old Gamers Never Die: Some More Thoughts on ‘Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age’
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in Alternative History (Alt History), Cold War-Turns-Hot Games, Cold Waters, Computer and Video Games, Killerfish Games, MicroProse Software, Naval Warfare Simulations, Red Storm Rising (1986 novel), Regiments (2022), Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age, Strike Fleet (1987), The Third World War: August 1985, The Third World War: The Untold Story (1982), Tom Clancy (author)Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age Genre: Real-time strategy/naval warfare simulation Developed by: Triassic Games Published by: MicroProse Release Date: November 12, 2024 Current Status: Early Access If you’re a regular visitor to A Certain Point of View, Too, you probably know I lived through the last 28 years of the Cold War.…
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A Brief Musing, and Some More of My Top Fives: A (Hopefully) Self-Explanatory Set of Five ‘Favorites’ Lists
Afternoon, Friday, October 27, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, folks. It’s afternoon here in my corner of the Tampa Bay area on the last Friday of October 2023 and the last day of a regular five-day workweek. I’m a bit late with my blogging, but I had other matters to attend to, so my writing schedule…
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‘Tom Clancy’s For Love and Honor’: A Scene from ‘Reunion: A Story’ as Retold by Bing AI in the Style of Tom Clancy
I have been having fun messing around with Microsoft’s Bing AI Chatbot lately. I’ve been asking it to take either the plot summary from the back cover of my novella, Reunion: A Story, or even one scene from the body of my first (self-published) work of fiction, and rewrite in the style of a well-known…
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Book Review: ‘The Third World War: The Untold Story’
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in Alternative History (Alt History), Books, Cold War (1945-1991), Cold War-Turns-Hot Games, Computer and Video Games, General Sir John Hackett, MicroProse Software, Military Fiction, Red Storm Rising (1986 novel), Regiments (2022), Team Yankee: A Novel of World War III, The Third World War: August 1985, The Third World War: The Untold Story (1982), Tom Clancy (author), U.S. HistoryDies Irae: The Story Continues…. In early 1982, Sidgwick & Jackson of London and Macmillan Publishing of New York published The Third World War: The Untold Story, a war novel co-written by General Sir John Hackett and seven collaborators, many of whom had co-written The Third World War: August 1985, published four years earlier and,…
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Book Review: ‘The Third World War: August 1985’
On May 1, 1978, London-based Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd. published The Third World War: August 1985: A Future History, a work of near-future speculative fiction by Sir John Hackett, a retired general in the British Army, and a group of co-authors that, according to the publisher, included an admiral, an economist, and a diplomat, all…
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Old Gamers Never Die: To Play or Not to Play a ‘Cold Waters’ Campaign…That is the Question
Hi there, Dear Reader. It is late afternoon in Lithia, Florida, on Sunday, June 26, 2022. It is a sizzling – and not in a good way – hot summer day here in the Tampa Bay area. Currently, the temperature is 88°F (31°C) under partly sunny skies. With humidity at 67% and the wind blowing…