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Summary: Disappointing!
Review: I'm not sure this book was written by Tom Clancy. I was totally disappointed. I'd never not finished a book that I'd started. I read almost half of it before I decided it wasn't worth keeping my record intact. I'm still mad at myself for wasting my time reading as much as I did. I'm unsure if I will ever buy another book with Clancy's name on it.
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Summary: Politika interesting, but full of errors
Review: Here's a letter I sent to the author care of his publisher. I have received no reply:Dear Mr. Clancy, I have read several of your books with interest as someone who has followed the Soviet Union and the Russian Republic for more then 30 years. While I have enjoyed them for the escapism they offer, I would have hoped that errors that crept into Cardinal of the Kremlin would have been eliminated from such a recent work as Politika. If you have no one to check your facts with as pertains to Russia, you can try me, especially since I understand you're considering the former as a basis for a movie. Here's what I am talking about (assuming the pagination in the Australian edition is the same as the US edition; I bought Politika at the Sydney airport): Page Erratum Comment 18 Bashkir...Far Eastern I think you mean "Siberian"; the Bashkirs are not in the Far East. If "Bashkir" is not an ethnic Bashkir, why does he have this name? (There is a famous pianist with the name Bashkirov) 30 Romual Perhaps you mean the Polish first name Romual'd (the apostrophe indicating the Russian soft sign, that being how the name is spelled in Russian) 43 Bishir yetso Neither I nor another experienced Russian linguist have any idea what this means. 62 vor v. zakone The period is not necessary (it's not a middle name!); rather than "godfather", such a person is more like the Mafia "made man" or, simply, "professional (as opposed to petty) thief", who subscribes to a code. See "Soviet Prison Camp Speech", by Meyer Galler, based largely on Solzhenitsyn's early works, for an excellent reference on this subject 110 Republican convention ?the previous summer"; in 1998? 181 Gorbachev He wasn't president in 1992 235 MIDI MIDI is a digital protocol governing the transmission of musical data between sound modules/synthesizers and computers or other sound modules/ synthesizers 261 Zgranitsa etc. Za granitsa (SIC) is a prepositional expression; no native Russian speaker would use it as the subject of a sentence like an English speaker might. 337 Mercedes Wold a rabid Russian nationalist/ Communist be seen in one of these? Bad image. 343 Komerade ? You mean "tovarishch"? "Komerad" is what German soldiers traditionally say when about to surrender 364 IL-76 This is a cargo plane, not a passenger plane. Although it is used to carry paratroopers, they don't sit in "passenger seats" any more than US airborne units do.
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Summary: A good book about a soldier by an arrogant jerk
Review: This is a good book by an unfortunately arrogant jerk who has patted himself on the back to many times about being a so called "military expert". I have met Mr. Clancy when I was stationed in the Navy in Groton, CT. When I met Mr. Clancy he was to busy spouting off who he knew in the Government to someone in the line. Then he gave me a come hither look when he signed the book "Sum of All Fears" and just as arrogantly didn't say anything when I complimented him on his works. This is NOT the ONLY TIME he has done this to people but has done this many times to his fans. Yes he is a good author but unfortunately when you meet him you meet a pompous self righteous know it all who is not the voice of the US Navy, but just another lucky author who was graced with good timing and good publishers.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: This is an excellent book. Both the first half, describing the life and career of General Horner, and the second half, detailing the planning and execution of the war in the gulf are engrossing and kept me reading. This book gives a good look at how a theater-level conflict is planned and the many parties that are involved. I would highly reccomend this to anybody who has an interest in the U.S. Air Force or national security strategy.
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Summary: Good book; but without "meat" in the Desert Storm section
Review: "Every Man a Tiger" combines an historical account of the U.S. Air Force's role in the 1991 Persian Gulf conflict, with a memoir of Gen. Chuck Horner, the senior Air Force Commander in Desert Storm. I found the section concerning Desert Storm lacking in interesting, substantive details concerning the Air Force's role in winning that conflict. It certainly was less interesting than Gen. Horner's candid account of the Air Force from the end of the Vietnam War to the present. I was fascinated by how our nation's political and military leadership allowed the Air Force to decline in the 1970s, and how the leaders of the 1980s rebuilt the Air Force to the world class military service it is today. Overall, a recommendable book, but certainly not as good as "Into the Storm," Clancy's first book in this series, with Gen. Fred Franks.
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Summary: Clancy insulted the Air Force
Review: When Tom Clancy visited Space Command for a photo op for this book, he ran into an Airman who WAS a huge Clancy fan. The Airman had read most of Clancy's books. Clancy basically made a comment like "you don't want me here, and I don't want to be here so lets just get this thing over with". Image is not always reality when you meet a star.
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Summary: The worst Tom Clancy book I have ever read!
Review: I wasted good vacation time to read it. It reads like a vanity press effort for Gen. Horner and I don't understand why Clancy got involved. I'm sure Horner was a great and brave general (just ask him). He is certainly not an author. This book reads like a military manual. The reader must wade through mind-numbing arcania such as chain-of-command descriptions and an endless batch of acronyms. The constant ego trips of Horner (he was bright, practically everyone else was misinformed) are irritating. The theme and content were very interesting, its just too bad it was buried in such a ego-gratifying style of writing. This is my last Clancy book written in collaberation with someone.
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Summary: An accurate and truthful chronicle of air war.
Review: I found this book very intresting, it was well worth the time it took to read. "Every Man a Tiger" gave an intresting prespective on the blunders of the Vietnam War and how these lessons learned from Vietnam carried over to the Gulf War. Even mor intresting (at least for me) was the books predictions of the future. Brian, age 13
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Summary: Interesting insight into the delusions of the USAF
Review: Vietnam historical section is very interesting read and reasonable interpretion of the failures of national military policy and its impact in the field. Horner's discussion of his and Air Force career track and political climate inside the USAF during the '60s-'80s is also quite interesting. Losses touch with reality when we get into Desert Shield/Storm, lessons learned etc. Actually believes the USAF (or any AF) is the dominant decisive instrument of war. Thinks lessons learned from Desert Storm point out the primacy of the AF as means of inflicting National will on others; siezing ground is incidental, one can simply fly his toy airplanes across the battlefield at 15000' with impunity while causually bombing opposition into submission. We are fortunate that Monica's War (as did WWII) pointed out the limited capability of airpower opertionally and tactically. Horner's account underscores while we have adults run high level operations, not ego bound fratboy pilots. Seems to not understand the true strategic military thought and operations. Once more Clancy needs to stick to his outstanding fiction and lose the collaborators. His novels are outstanding. But as with the lame OP Center series and other collaborative spinoffs this book overall leaves one wondering "Is this the same guy who gave us Jack Ryan or is his publisher just milking his reputation by using the Clancy name on the work of some hack?"
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Summary: Chuck Horner airpower's champion
Review: An excellent book, and a must read for all Air Force types. Clancy's examination of modern airpower convinces the reader of its importance, and highlights the Air Force's need to remain technologically superior. I especially enjoyed the parts of the book dealing with mistakes made in Vietnam. I think that all future leaders should understand what went wrong in Southeast Asia, and what was learned from these mistakes. This book is a testament to the young officers of the Vietnam era who turned the service around, and made us into the effective fighting force we are today. It is now up to the leaders of tomorrow to follow in their footsteps, to realize that General Horner is a hero who understood that airpower is the key to victory in modern conflict, and to emulate this hero in our future battles. Plus we could use the F-22.
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