Shik
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So many people saying they know how the world works, how to best handle a situation...but do we ever get the chance to prove it? No.
Well, now you can!
I invite (& dare I say...challenge?) those with foreign relations knowledge to vindicate their beliefs as I unveil the first online version of the patented Foreign Relations Policy Wargame. Take the helm & show us all how to serve king & country!
(Is this spam? Maybe. Do I intend it as such? Not really. Should I put it in Contests? It crossed my mind.)
------------------ "My dear, I used to think that I was serving humanity... and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases Jubal Harshaw." ---Jubal Harshaw, Stranger In A Strange Land
Shik
Starship database: completed; History of Starfleet: done; website: probably never
Member # 343
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Yes, well....one needs players before playing, eh?
------------------ "My dear, I used to think that I was serving humanity... and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases Jubal Harshaw." ---Jubal Harshaw, Stranger In A Strange Land
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Funny, I've just started reading Clancy (Red October, Patriot Games, part of Clear and Present), and so far he's pretty good. Did he deteriorate over time or what?
------------------ "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
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Eh ... as Tom Clancy goes, I like him. I of course like his early books the most ("Sum of All Fears" and "Clear and Present Danger" are my favorites), and the last of his I read was "Rainbow Six" which I enjoyed (I love the N64 version of the game, BTW). I haven't read "Bear and the Dragon" yet, but Clancy's books do seem to be taking a twist to the wierd ... i.e., the U.S. seems to go to war in every single one of his latest ones. Ah well.
------------------ My roomate is a stupid, often-drunk, country-listening, non-cleaning, non-choring redneck ... kill him now ...
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My problem with Clancy's later books is that they're just so damned LONG. Or it could just be that I have less time to myself to read them in than I used to.
Personally, I loved Red Storm Rising, even if it IS terribly dated now, Red October, and Cardinal of the Kremlin.
Of COURSE there's military action in Clancy's books. I mea, the guy writes military fiction, doesn't he? You can't have much military action without a battle of some kind.
------------------ "Ed Gruberman, you fail to grasp Ty Kwan Leap. Approach me, that you might see." -- The Master
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I'm of the opinion that, like the Star Trek films, Clancy has an alternating pattern of good / bad novels. (not counting the books where it boldy states 'TOM CLANCY'S POWER PLAYS' while really written by someone else.)
Anyway, Rainbow Six really was excellent, and I was talking with a friend of my Father's who happens to be in JTF-2, and he said the he thought it was remarkably accurate. Nothing more, less I'd be dead.
The Bear And The Dragon seems alright, (p. 76), but it really is quite long. Oh well, it's a small price to pay than to read hacks like Dale Brown, and others.
------------------ "...you know, Omega, there's a phrase you might want to look up. It goes something like "paranoid arrogant fuckwit who has more chance of ejaculating to the moon than he has of ever convincing a girl that he's a viable prospect for marriage." -PsyLiam, September 16, 2000 10:23 PM.
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First: There doesn't need to be a war. IIRC, there wasn't really a war in The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, or The Cardinal of the Kremlin. The only other one I've read is Red Storm Rising, which did have a war. I also started Clear and Present Danger, but never finished it. Maybe I'll go back to Clancy after I finish the book I'm reading now... Hm...
------------------ "It's like the Star of David or something. But without the whole Judaism thing." -Frank Gerratana, 17-Aug-2000
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You know, another military author I like is Larry Bond, although his most recent two have been disapointments.
VORTEX, about a war in South Africa, is excellent. This is in apartheid days, so you can guess who 'da bad white man is ...
CAULDRON is about a war in Europe, where France and Germany unite and set about after a Polish pipeline to revive their economies. The U.S. and England go to war against them, and the big question is, where is Russia going to go after a military coup?
------------------ My roomate is a stupid, often-drunk, country-listening, non-cleaning, non-choring redneck ... kill him now ...
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He IS the biker dude. And former commander of SEAL Team Six. Call him a 'biker dude' and you'd be eating your testicles at best.
Seriously, he's pretty good, despite the average of over 20 F Words a page. But, hey, that's SEAL talk.
------------------ "...you know, Omega, there's a phrase you might want to look up. It goes something like "paranoid arrogant fuckwit who has more chance of ejaculating to the moon than he has of ever convincing a girl that he's a viable prospect for marriage." -PsyLiam, September 16, 2000 10:23 PM.
Yeah, go ahead, invade Russia. Get nuked off the face of the earth. 
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