I love when they discover something that’s been around since the 1950s. Wargaming got big when Tom Clancy played a lot of Harpoon and discovered how the G-I-UK gap was going to be huge in any Hot Cold War scenario.
He wrote a whole novel about it, Red Storm Rising.
unfilmable so they did Hunt for Red October instead.
I know clancy is low hanging fruit but this is some great brainworms: the US stumbled into the dominant position in NATO unlike those dastardly Soviets who intentional took the dominant position in the Warsaw Pact which they did because they’re evil and not as a natural consequence of having the largest military of the constituents
Also a military alliance having a single mutually intelligible language for effective cohesive communication is Authoritarian
That’s not in the book.
Must be from one of the lame-ass wargames they made about it. Never ever get a licensed game. people buy it on name recognition, why bother to have a good game?
Fp I haven’t actually read it that’s just an excerpt I copied from the wikipedia plot summary of it, guess whoever wrote the summary has more than clancy had lol
He also wrote a lot about how the next world war would be us v Europe v Russia and china. Obviously Europe is an American puppet but they have been getting feisty lately
He’s one of those writers who only had two novels in him. The rest are crap.
Tolkien only had two novels in him, both of which are in the top 5 in the English language.
unfilmable so they did Hunt for Red October instead.
I read the book and was kinda amazed how they made that turd of a book into actually good movie. They had to cut off like 3/4th of anticommunism and russophobia from it lmao. On a side note, if the Annapolis cadets really used that book as a textbook in the 80’s, i’m not even surprised how that generation which is now runing US Navy is crashing it to the ground hard.
Also fun GIUK fact: it played certain hilarious role in Cod Wars
I love when they discover something that’s been around since the 1950s. Wargaming got big when Tom Clancy played a lot of Harpoon and discovered how the G-I-UK gap was going to be huge in any Hot Cold War scenario. He wrote a whole novel about it, Red Storm Rising.
unfilmable so they did Hunt for Red October instead.
I know clancy is low hanging fruit but this is some great brainworms: the US stumbled into the dominant position in NATO unlike those dastardly Soviets who intentional took the dominant position in the Warsaw Pact which they did because they’re evil and not as a natural consequence of having the largest military of the constituents
Also a military alliance having a single mutually intelligible language for effective cohesive communication is Authoritarian
That’s not in the book.
Must be from one of the lame-ass wargames they made about it. Never ever get a licensed game. people buy it on name recognition, why bother to have a good game?
Fp I haven’t actually read it that’s just an excerpt I copied from the wikipedia plot summary of it, guess whoever wrote the summary has more
than clancy had lol
NATOPedia?
Super cringe.
I mean, Russophobia WTF that’s not even a word.
He also wrote a lot about how the next world war would be us v Europe v Russia and china. Obviously Europe is an American puppet but they have been getting feisty lately
He’s one of those writers who only had two novels in him. The rest are crap. Tolkien only had two novels in him, both of which are in the top 5 in the English language.
Farmer Giles of Ham is also very good.
I read the book and was kinda amazed how they made that turd of a book into actually good movie. They had to cut off like 3/4th of anticommunism and russophobia from it lmao. On a side note, if the Annapolis cadets really used that book as a textbook in the 80’s, i’m not even surprised how that generation which is now runing US Navy is crashing it to the ground hard.
Also fun GIUK fact: it played certain hilarious role in Cod Wars