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I just finished reading his book SSN Strategies for Submarine Warfare. The specific detail of military operations and protocol seems unfathomable for a civilian! This book was a great read but felt like I was reading a Pentagon briefing.
This question was asked back in the 80's when I read "Red Storm Rising".
I think Tom Clancy writes very little of his own anymore, they put his name on books written by others.
Jane's Defence always frustrated us because we would have pictures that were still classified, but Jane's would have the same photo or info in their latest edition. Having said that - The Hunt for Red October had stuff that Jane's deals nothing with.
There is one Clancy based movie where Ryan is perusing a stack of Jane's books.
I think he just used published information and an active logical imagination for the background of "Red October". "Red Star Rising" was apparently the result of a fancy war game at Newport, RI. Having the Russians take Iceland was tactical genius. He is probably a part of the Pentagon propaganda network and is a way of testing public response to their more bizarre ideas.
I have, due to a change of taste and the repetitive nature of his current books, pretty much stopped reading Tom Clancy.
It's been a while since I read Red Storm Rising, but I thought Clancy mentioned that the US used subs to tap Russian under sea cables in Soviet waters. That was a real operation that was spoiled by a Soviet mole(Ames?). That did not become public until well after the book came out.
I don't remember that - but I do remember that in that book the Soviets cut the SOSUS line which was NATO's undersea sub detector, an act which greatly helped the Soviet navy throughout the course of the novel.
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