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From: jwm@stda.jhuapl.edu (Jim Meritt)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: The Novels of Thomas Clancy
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Date: 3 Aug 89 11:37:44 GMT
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From: jwm@stda.jhuapl.edu (Jim Meritt)
In article <8752@cbnews.ATT.COM> hjohnso@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:
}From: hjohnso@hubcap.clemson.edu (Barry Johnson)
}I was wondering what the net's opinion is on the quality and accuracy of  
}the books written by Thomas Clancy :  The Hunt For Red October, 
}                                      Red Storm Rising,
}                                      Patriot Games,
}                                      The Cardinal of the Kremlin.
} 
} 
}I have a relative at the Air Force Academy who says that Red Storm Rising
}is required reading as a study in air combat doctrine.  Also, upon asking
}a boomer captain in Seattle about Clancy, he said that Clancy was pretty
}damnned accurate on a lot of points, but it was his job to not let anyone
}know which points they were or were not.  Tell me what you folks think of
}this novelist.  Thanks...

His descriptions of the interior of the SURFLANT Headquarters and the
Pentagon were right on...



"In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain"
					- Pliny the Elder
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