My copy from comments: No shit true story. I was on board the USS Nimitz, a member of VA-82, one of the two A7-E squadrons on board. I accidentally picked up this book from the ships library, mostly because the cover looked cool, and it was in the pile of donations. Imagine how I felt that here I am in the North Atlantic, literally 15 miles from the Soviet Union, in the fjords of Norway, in my rack reading this book! HFS! BOY WAS THAT SOBERING! AQ2 USN '84-90. This book made me one serious sailor!
@jimmccormick609121 күн бұрын
there were more than a few ships in the fleet where this book NEVER got set down...
@jeffsargent80525 ай бұрын
What's scary about this book is when it first came out I was stationed in Germany in the 80s. A lot of US soldiers read it and we're very afraid of its probability
@SusquehannaRiverRat5 ай бұрын
Same here. I was a US Air Force Security Policeman stationed at a nuclear storage site in southern Germany. They told us if the Warsaw Pact decided to attack, the pre-phase scenario in this book was exactly what we were to expect. Most likely an attack by Spetsnaz.
@gonepostal91015 ай бұрын
Yeah, I remember getting letters from one of my best friends when he was deployed near Kassel, in the Fulda Gap, around 1984. He drove the G3 truck, so he always had brass in it. He overheard some pretty serious shit.
@stephankaiser50055 ай бұрын
Oh yeah....the Fulda Gap. We're still living not far from it. 😮😉
@mcav225 ай бұрын
Do you think that was an accident? Or maybe it was done intentionally and Tom Clancy has been getting great ideas from the CIA since before either of us were born?
@TERoss-jk9ny5 ай бұрын
Imagine what MR Tom Clancy could write about now? Much of what he wrote has come into fruition. The fact of the matter is simple in 2024….. We must create war, and we MUST do it BEFORE the election. Godspeed and Godbless. Prepare folks.
@davidbuffum48875 ай бұрын
Funny fact: The Government was supposedly to call Tom into debrief after he released this book . They asked him where he got his information for this book, and his response was from friend and people he knew. They told him his version of what WWIII was better than their theories were.
@slappy89414 ай бұрын
Yeah I heard the same thing about The Hunt for Red October, and I kind of think it might have been Tom's way of boosting his credibility.
@paul123ggggggggg4 ай бұрын
i call bullshit. are you saying the "government" does not know about jane's publication? every detail about just about every weapons system and specific doctrines are published by jane's. not one word clancy wrote is an opsec violation. sounds like a publicity stunt.
@Laurelinad4 ай бұрын
and they misinformed him about the stealth fighter Because He came too close to the truth
@BrettonianKnightАй бұрын
@@slappy8941nah the hunt for red October was an interrogation over how accurate he got the submarine tech for the time
@treycotterАй бұрын
I highly doubt they told him that his theory for war was better than theirs.
@EricBenjamin-ey1ls3 ай бұрын
Read this book before dessert storm, those new generation weapon was already used here . Whenever tv anchor described new weapon systems used, such as smart bomb and stealth, I expect it.
@FreeRojava20255 ай бұрын
Funny how accurate some of this has been shown to be in Ukraine
@JimBeam69er5 ай бұрын
It's Abit to dated to be an actual comparison, but as far as logistics and airpower largely cancelling each other out yes, but drones and automation wasn't as prevalent, and is literally an entire era of warfare after this.
@Johnnybojangles6645 ай бұрын
Yeah especially the bits when those dogs get turned to mince.
@theccpisaparasite88132 ай бұрын
I think 1991 is the better contrast
@emo-sup-sockАй бұрын
@@JimBeam69er I think he meant how Moscow handled the escalation, the rhetoric, information warfare, the political infighting in the Russian establishment, etc
@brianhicks9568Ай бұрын
thats exactly what i thought and kind of scary
@dlkramer88Ай бұрын
We certainly did not have 'Russia goes to war with Ukraine' on our bingo cards in those days.
@jello_cudgel9213Ай бұрын
The visuals are comically outstanding
@brianbaker5671Ай бұрын
This was always my favorite Clancy novel
@haroldwalma2552 ай бұрын
After this book the Navy developed the arsenal ship concept and the vertical launch system, which was also installed on Spruance class destroyers, which where designed to be sub hunters, not anti air. I reported to the USS O'Brien (DD-827) shortly after this system was installed. Because of this we had the capacity to carry and launch the Standard 1 and 2 missile, but not control it.
@mroctober36574 ай бұрын
I've tried to buy this on Audible, but bizarrely, they don't have it. There's plenty of other Clancy audiobooks id like to buy too, like Rainbow 6, but they either don't exist or just rubbish abridged versions.
@p7outdoors2974 ай бұрын
It might be geo-locked. I can buy it in the US. If you're outside of the US a VPN might help
@JimBeam69er2 ай бұрын
@@mroctober3657 it's on the Google play store book app.
@ToddBrooks-o5m4 ай бұрын
Don't bother listening. You Tube removed Part 3 . Lets hear it for You Tube .
@brandonjones55594 ай бұрын
Man my timing sucks. Enjoyed the first 2 parts, occasionally opening part 3 by mistake then when I need it GONE...sigh.
@theccpisaparasite88132 ай бұрын
Just buy the damned book. The only reason I listen is so I can following in the car!
@JimBeam69er2 ай бұрын
@@ToddBrooks-o5m quit being a cheap ass and just buy the audio book
@ToddBrooks-o5m2 ай бұрын
@@theccpisaparasite8813CRAWL BACK UNDER YOUR ROCK MOW RON !!
@jefferydraper40192 ай бұрын
@@theccpisaparasite8813 I listen because silence at night increases the pain from my tinnitis. I have to have some kind of book to listen to.
@sarah_7575 ай бұрын
I served on a boat very similar to Dallas and wow, Clancy is so wrong about officers running the plant. We keep officers away from the hardware so they don't bollocks it up and sink us. However as part of their training, junior officers have to perform a number of different plant evolutions so they can "supervise" (lol). I've stood as over-instruction to officers touching plant controls, and I've never been so nervous. I went to 2 years of grueling school to know how to properly touch that switch. To stand beside them while they touch things is nerve wracking. Because if this junior officer screws up, *I* get disqualified. And just 'cause he's got a master in biomedicine does not mean he can find his own ass with two hands a and a map. My boat, in fact, was built by management, so many components were in unexpected places and it drove the yard birds nuts. So no, we don't let managemt operate controls (and they shouldn't build baits, either)
@colinpeck66455 ай бұрын
Similar in the British military, in engineering roles officers should stick to signing leave passes and ration returns.
@slappy89414 ай бұрын
It's a universal rule that those who design things generally have little to no experience with them, and almost never consult those who do have experience.
@Scott110784 ай бұрын
Something I learned well is the massive amount of trust and responsibility the US Navy places on us Enlisted. Some but not all of our allied Navies as well. Now I'm sure eventually someone will respond along the lines of all US Military/NATO does. No not to the level the Navy, well atleast 199something to the early 2000's. I've gotten enough confirmation by showing my bootcamp graduation video friends that were Vets of other branches. I'm gonna assume this all still holds true Pass and Review ie. Boot Camp graduation has the chain of events started by an officer EVERYTHING done, all orders given was 90% on us graduating. I'm gonna be vague because my time in the Navy was ANYTHING but boring and I'm not gonna get into a comment war having to prove what I say. Several times as an E-4 and E-5 I handled something handled by an O2 or O3.
@colinpeck66454 ай бұрын
@@Scott11078 That's why they invest heavily in training, so we can do a job and do it well.
@theccpisaparasite88132 ай бұрын
Depends on what he learned and how good they are. A good engineering officer know more than everyone in that plant and can do their job better than the enlisted can. You just never had a real engineer for an officer. Take the time to teach you numbskull!
@complexblacknessАй бұрын
7:30:42 The war starts 7:31:00 Ch:17 Frisbees of Dreamland. 7:59:43 Chapter 18 Polar glory
@carloscasal28013 ай бұрын
When will Red Storm Rising [3/3] be available?
@BrettonianKnightАй бұрын
Its available now if you want it
@elessartelcontar94153 ай бұрын
Shortages of grains due to mismanagement because The Ukraine was part of the USSR and The Ukraine had been a huge supplier of grain from their vast spreads of wheat, rye and millet. Except during The Holdomor when Stalin exterminated Ukrainian farmers and set up many huge collective but inefficient farms. Tens of millions starved in Ukraine because he took all of the grain The Ukraine grew for several years.
@turkfilesАй бұрын
That’s very informative. Also, unfortunately not surprising to hear about how brutal the early CCCP could be.
@crazyman84727 күн бұрын
7:31:00 Shots fired! 🔥
@RobertSantos-rw8dy4 ай бұрын
Thank you for the upload. I don't think I read this one...
@brandonjones55594 ай бұрын
Damn! Have we lost 3/3 ?
@BrettonianKnightАй бұрын
Yeah unfortunately
@dnewbury52Ай бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2KbdWaqg8yBf9U
@paulnickelles2072 ай бұрын
Brilliant author now try bear and the dragon another super one
@castlerock583 ай бұрын
What is the point of 2/3 of a book?
@kevinkay83517 күн бұрын
i wish i could have served with you gentlemen i was rejected by meps in 1988 for a bent arm
@davidbuffum48873 ай бұрын
What happened to 3rd part?
@pokiiuwu86243 ай бұрын
maybe got taken down by copyright (funny how first and second part are still fine) or this channel just decided to be a bad guy and don’t upload the last part
The statement that, "The Icdlanders have no warrior tradition" is comically incorrect! Many great viking warriors came from Iceland. Many viking berserkers came from Iceland. One notorious viking from Iceland was Egill Skallagrímsson, a Viking-Age warrior and poet, infamous for having first killed a man when he was only seven years old! This was actually not that unusual at the time! Clancy must have never read the extremely gory Icelandic sagas.
@theccpisaparasite88132 ай бұрын
Yeah ... that's an odd one. Same as these assertions that the Swedes are some peace-loving war averse people. They are the barbaric, raping and pilliaging Vikings ...
@jamess32412 ай бұрын
I mean, the ENTIRE BOOK is labeled as fiction.......
@BrettonianKnightАй бұрын
Also they haven't fought or won a war since then
@trevdestroyer820919 күн бұрын
@@theccpisaparasite8813I think there's a difference between vikings and modern Sweden who haven't fought a war since napoleonic times
@johnwharton94213 ай бұрын
So what the story about 3/3
@dnewbury52Ай бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2KbdWaqg8yBf9U
@richardsteffey406112 күн бұрын
There Nords from Skyrim!
@GrumpyOldMan92 ай бұрын
There's something extraordinary creepy about an uber-nerd like Clancy describing sexual thoughts or actions
@alienmorality3 ай бұрын
Rip pt 3
@swiftmaticАй бұрын
@09:42:21, Ham n Muthafukaz!!!😂😂😂
@davidcarmack50744 ай бұрын
Why does this take 11 hours? I read this book in about 3.5 hours.
@ToddBrooks-o5m3 ай бұрын
Crawl back under your rock now .
@elessartelcontar94153 ай бұрын
Speaking words is slower than reading them.
@Gralk5412 ай бұрын
superior man
@turkfilesАй бұрын
Wow. Close to 1,000 pages in just 3.5 hours! It’s just Part One that takes 11+ hours. Collectively all three parts together are ~33 hr’s. Granted, people generally do read faster than they can talk. However, 3.5 hr’s for the whole book is a stretch…
@emo-sup-sockАй бұрын
@@davidcarmack5074 no you didn't
@sailortristan2 ай бұрын
1:52:40 Chapter 4
@Brocachoo5 ай бұрын
Cink Southwest…the best
@BryinWillis-e8g3 ай бұрын
33min…
@beebilbo595 ай бұрын
10:35:26
@GrumpyOldMan92 ай бұрын
I have a problem with a creep like Clancy describing any sexual action, especially rape.