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!
@jimmccormick60913 ай бұрын
there were more than a few ships in the fleet where this book NEVER got set down...
@brianbaker56714 ай бұрын
This was always my favorite Clancy novel
@jeffsargent80528 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
@SusquehannaRiverRat8 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.
@gonepostal91018 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.
@stephankaiser50058 ай бұрын
Oh yeah....the Fulda Gap. We're still living not far from it. 😮😉
@mcav228 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-jk9ny8 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.
@EricBenjamin-ey1ls6 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.
@jello_cudgel92134 ай бұрын
The visuals are comically outstanding
@johnmichaelson91732 ай бұрын
It's the worst film I've seen I just couldn't follow what was happening.
@jello_cudgel92132 ай бұрын
@ I take it you haven’t seen “The Last Jedi” which makes far less sense
@complexblackness4 ай бұрын
7:30:42 The war starts 7:31:00 Ch:17 Frisbees of Dreamland. 7:59:43 Chapter 18 Polar glory
@haroldwalma2555 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.
@davidbuffum48878 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.
@slappy89417 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.
@paul123ggggggggg7 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.
@Laurelinad7 ай бұрын
and they misinformed him about the stealth fighter Because He came too close to the truth
@BrettonianKnight4 ай бұрын
@@slappy8941nah the hunt for red October was an interrogation over how accurate he got the submarine tech for the time
@treycotter4 ай бұрын
I highly doubt they told him that his theory for war was better than theirs.
@weirdshibainuАй бұрын
I read this in 4 days, staying up until 3 am each day, even though I had to be at work at 7
@FreeRojava20258 ай бұрын
Funny how accurate some of this has been shown to be in Ukraine
@JimBeam69er8 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.
@Johnnybojangles6648 ай бұрын
Yeah especially the bits when those dogs get turned to mince.
@theccpisaparasite88135 ай бұрын
I think 1991 is the better contrast
@emo-sup-sock4 ай бұрын
@@JimBeam69er I think he meant how Moscow handled the escalation, the rhetoric, information warfare, the political infighting in the Russian establishment, etc
@brianhicks95684 ай бұрын
thats exactly what i thought and kind of scary
@dlkramer884 ай бұрын
We certainly did not have 'Russia goes to war with Ukraine' on our bingo cards in those days.
@johnmichaelson91732 ай бұрын
And that they were a paper tiger, underfunded, undertrained, under equipped & very badly led. Until Trump won the election the idea of the Russians winning in Ukraine never crossed my mind. I pray he doesn't throw them to the Wolf. 🙏
@tangelalr1robinson59316 күн бұрын
Wonderful Larry Bond novel.
@petepruitt719628 күн бұрын
“The Tom Clancy Effect”. My name for the impact of these BEST SELLING novels depicting our military as SUPERHEROES!
@sarah_7578 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)
@colinpeck66458 ай бұрын
Similar in the British military, in engineering roles officers should stick to signing leave passes and ration returns.
@slappy89417 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.
@Scott110787 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.
@colinpeck66457 ай бұрын
@@Scott11078 That's why they invest heavily in training, so we can do a job and do it well.
@theccpisaparasite88135 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!
@mroctober36577 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.
@p7outdoors2977 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
@JimBeam69er5 ай бұрын
@@mroctober3657 it's on the Google play store book app.
@ToddBrooks-o5m7 ай бұрын
Don't bother listening. You Tube removed Part 3 . Lets hear it for You Tube .
@brandonjones55597 ай бұрын
Man my timing sucks. Enjoyed the first 2 parts, occasionally opening part 3 by mistake then when I need it GONE...sigh.
@theccpisaparasite88135 ай бұрын
Just buy the damned book. The only reason I listen is so I can following in the car!
@JimBeam69er5 ай бұрын
@@ToddBrooks-o5m quit being a cheap ass and just buy the audio book
@ToddBrooks-o5m5 ай бұрын
@@theccpisaparasite8813CRAWL BACK UNDER YOUR ROCK MOW RON !!
@jefferydraper40195 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.
@JO-vj5lqАй бұрын
Tom Clancy classic.
@elessartelcontar94156 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.
@turkfiles4 ай бұрын
That’s very informative. Also, unfortunately not surprising to hear about how brutal the early CCCP could be.
@Ronald-wv1bzАй бұрын
Recommend not watching video while listening. When watching this awesome video I was completely lost with an equally awesome Clancy novel.
@crazyman84723 ай бұрын
7:31:00 Shots fired! 🔥
@RobertSantos-rw8dy7 ай бұрын
Thank you for the upload. I don't think I read this one...
@carloscasal28016 ай бұрын
When will Red Storm Rising [3/3] be available?
@BrettonianKnight4 ай бұрын
Its available now if you want it
@paulnickelles2075 ай бұрын
Brilliant author now try bear and the dragon another super one
@brandonjones55597 ай бұрын
Damn! Have we lost 3/3 ?
@BrettonianKnight4 ай бұрын
Yeah unfortunately
@dnewbury524 ай бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2KbdWaqg8yBf9U
@elessartelcontar94156 ай бұрын
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.
@theccpisaparasite88135 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 ...
@jamess32415 ай бұрын
I mean, the ENTIRE BOOK is labeled as fiction.......
@BrettonianKnight4 ай бұрын
Also they haven't fought or won a war since then
@trevdestroyer82093 ай бұрын
@@theccpisaparasite8813I think there's a difference between vikings and modern Sweden who haven't fought a war since napoleonic times
@Oldguy190024 күн бұрын
And in the last 100 years?
@sailortristan5 ай бұрын
1:52:40 Chapter 4
@castlerock586 ай бұрын
What is the point of 2/3 of a book?
@daviddiehl-gy2sq2 ай бұрын
This is where in chapter 21 you tell the countries. Either you support NATO or all your support is cut off and your diplomats are expelled. You will get NO assistance from any NATO country.
@johnmichaelson91732 ай бұрын
Maybe say that to the President elect, everyone is concerned now that Trump is back. He thinks more highly of Orban & Putin than America's intelligence agencies & her closest long term allies.
@TheSnorkelmaster8 ай бұрын
novoshakhtinsk refinery on fire now
@stevearrendale83416 ай бұрын
Where’s the start
@davidbuffum48876 ай бұрын
What happened to 3rd part?
@pokiiuwu86246 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
6:14:00 Ffs!! British not English, the British forces are, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Nepalese the Gurkhas. The Commonwealth, Australian, Canadian, Indian, New Zealand, South African. Not just the English.
@bigbubba43142 ай бұрын
Ur all English to the rest of the world.
@mikeoveli102812 күн бұрын
Wow I didn't know any of that. Thank you!
@johnmichaelson917312 күн бұрын
@@mikeoveli1028 They're the nation's from the day's of the Empire, all of those nation's fought with the British in WWI & WWII. Churchill talked about an alliance of all the English-speaking nation's who combined could stop another Hitler or Stalin.
@alienmorality6 ай бұрын
Rip pt 3
@beebilbo598 ай бұрын
7:21:26
@davidcarmack50747 ай бұрын
Why does this take 11 hours? I read this book in about 3.5 hours.
@ToddBrooks-o5m6 ай бұрын
Crawl back under your rock now .
@elessartelcontar94156 ай бұрын
Speaking words is slower than reading them.
@Gralk5415 ай бұрын
superior man
@turkfiles4 ай 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…