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  1. 1 year ago
    Yukari

    Don't really have one. It's unfortunate that a lot of war novels, especially fictional ones, are poorly written. Tom Clancy is probably the least bad of many fictional military writers, and he still has weird shit in his books like cuckold arcs and sidestories that don't add much to the main arc.
    Pic rel is something I enjoyed. He's shockingly honest and coherent.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >David Bellavia
      I met him a few times while I was in The Old Guard, he was really fricking cool guy. Frick, now I'm remembering all of the cool ceremonies I did.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You made this thread just to share that meme.
    But I approve of the meme.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      And I have also misspelled the world "eyebrow" I'm a moron.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm reading this right now, I can't put it down. It's thrilling.
    Red Storm Rising, I mean. Not pic related.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Me too fren. Way better detail than I was expecting tbh.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Me too fren. Way better detail than I was expecting tbh.

      Only thing I seriously disliked about Red Storm Rising is the whole reason behind the war. Soviets are facing a severe shortage of oil and by-products due to a terrorist attack, so they immediately decide to go full moron on the West and completely deplete whatever critical reserves they might have been able to hold on to? I know there's a whole chapter where they go over the reasoning, and it does make sense that inaction would have led to severe weaknesses that NATO would eventually exploit.

      But then again, as I wrote this, I realized that maybe the realism stems from the fact that IRL russians actually are this moronic, thus justifying their decision-making process in the book. Gotta hand it to Clancy, he was a wise man.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That's been the consensus this past year. Clancy has been proven right after all the shit his off the wall stories got because of just how moronic the Russians have proven themselves to be.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          To be fair tho, the Soviets somehow managing to invade Saudi Arabia while half of their forces launches a diversionary attack on NATO, was also a massive stretch.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            EUROPE WAS A FEINT
            THE CAULDRON IS CLOSING ON THE SAUDIS..
            MMMM ROASTED GOATIES*~~

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >reason behind the war
        I was hesitant to start because I knew a vague plot outline and I figured it would be a Kickstart contrivance, but I really enjoyed the detail given by the Petroleum Minister as to exactly why they were fugged, and given recent Russian behavior it is plausible that they could think that they would be able to limit the continental war to just Germany.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Only thing I seriously disliked about Red Storm Rising is the whole reason behind the war. Soviets are facing a severe shortage of oil and by-products due to a terrorist attack, so they immediately decide to go full moron on the West and completely deplete whatever critical reserves they might have been able to hold on to?
        I mean, that's what the Germans did.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Not Germany, Japan actually.

          https://i.imgur.com/z4Go00y.jpg

          Read this in the early months of the war thanks to me stumbling on the audiobook posted on youtube. To watch an actual soviet invasion (albeit 100x even more moronic than the novel) real time that matched Clancy's description of the soviet army was just surreal.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Gotta hand it to Clancy, he was a wise man.
        Let's not forget in pic rel he had a guy fly a hijacked airliner into a large building.
        > years before 9/11

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/z4Go00y.jpg

      Team Yankee and Red Phoenix were good, but I was a dumb kid when I read them.

  5. 1 year ago
    RC-135 Rivet Joint

    Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
    Real eye opener on how brutal we treated the Vietnamese and how brutal the war was in general.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >pic
    Would be funnier with Leonid Brezhnev instead of the sub

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Holy shit... Ukraine would surrender if he showed off the strength he had to raise those eyebrows.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Not really novel but Alone at Dawn was good same as the two books from a Marine Raider Michael Golembesky.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Alone at Dawn
      That book is messed up. They really did leave him to die.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It was a good book. Plus it shows some insight into the unit that is rarely talked about.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    another gay moron thread

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I started reading Red Storm Rising but then I found out I'm mentally moronic and can't keep track of so many characters, specially when it comes to the Russians and their names all sounding the same to me.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Try the audiobook, it's pretty good and well narrated.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Michael Pritchard is a good narrator imo

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Michael Pritchard is a good narrator imo

        This guy's whole channel is just making DCS movies of the book.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          That dude's a fricking legend, "Demons" and "Nordic Hammer" are my favorites so he's done so far but they're all incredible.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            [...]

            This guy's whole channel is just making DCS movies of the book.

            My favourite chapter is probably dance of the vampires, with frisbees of Dreamland coming in at a close second.

            I'm just now re-reading it and it's a very solid book that's just interspersed with Tom Clancy's Icelandic preggo fetish roadtrip adventure.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >Tom Clancy's Icelandic preggo fetish roadtrip adventure.
              It's weird how much that whole thing stood out to me as a 12 year old first reading it way back when.
              Iceland in RSR gave us some pretty stout literary "kino," from missile massacres to British Paras to Marine landings (Soviet and then American), but it'll always be wrapped up with a masterfully autisitc boomer's preggo rape savior fetish.
              Even Tarantino would roll his eyes in amusement.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >Tom Clancy's Icelandic preggo fetish roadtrip adventure.
              It's weird how much that whole thing stood out to me as a 12 year old first reading it way back when.
              Iceland in RSR gave us some pretty stout literary "kino," from missile massacres to British Paras to Marine landings (Soviet and then American), but it'll always be wrapped up with a masterfully autisitc boomer's preggo rape savior fetish.
              Even Tarantino would roll his eyes in amusement.

              >Tom Clancy's Icelandic preggo fetish roadtrip adventure
              they only part of RSR that annoys me. whenever i re-read it i skip almost every part of Toland's plot.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I do too
                Although I admit I kinda see where ol' Tom is coming from...

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Lol for me the boring part is Iceland, with Michael D. Edwards "Beagle" intel gathering and shit.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                yeah i mispoke. Toland was the based intel guy. edwards was the cuck with the preggo fetish.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah Toland is the NSA anal chad

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              > Icelandic preggo fetish roadtrip adventure.
              Based

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                [...]
                >Tom Clancy's Icelandic preggo fetish roadtrip adventure
                they only part of RSR that annoys me. whenever i re-read it i skip almost every part of Toland's plot.

                >that part where they are being aimed at by a Hind but that is secondary to the MC having a hard on because he realised that the preggo chick isn't wearing a bra

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Shit, shit. We’re going to get murderized by Russians
                >Better cop a feel.
                Was Mike /our guy/?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I do too
                Although I admit I kinda see where ol' Tom is coming from...

                https://i.imgur.com/YGde1Vu.jpg

                [...]
                >that part where they are being aimed at by a Hind but that is secondary to the MC having a hard on because he realised that the preggo chick isn't wearing a bra

                >Slowly, carefully, Vigdis moved the hand in which she held the fish. She used
                two fingers to grab Mike's hand at her waist, moving it up and around until it
                rested on her left breast. Then she held the fish high above her head.

                >"My father loves to fish," the senior lieutenant said, manipulating the flight
                controls to Hover.
                "Shit on the fish," the gunner snapped back. "I want to catch one of those.
                Look where that young bastard has his hand!"

                >Vidgis waved back. They stood
                there as it fiew off. Their hands came down, and her left arm held his tight
                against her. Edwards had not realized that Vigdis didn't wear a bra. He was
                afraid to move his hand, afraid to appear to make an advance. Why had she
                done that? To help fool the Russians—to reassure him, or herself?

                clancy preggo booba fetishist confirmed

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      omg are you me?
      I thought the Icelandic commander and the European commander were the same guy. And kept wondering how he kept teleporting between fronts. And why he did not GTFO out of Iceland when he could.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Boring pick but Alistair Maclean is like literary comfort food for me and this is the one that started it all for me.

      omg are you me?
      I thought the Icelandic commander and the European commander were the same guy. And kept wondering how he kept teleporting between fronts. And why he did not GTFO out of Iceland when he could.

      Avoid chink novels like the plague, the names are one thing but there are endless amounts of one off characters or characters that you read about for like half a page and they return 200 pages later.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Move over, Mr. Clancy.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      +1 for this recommendation. Finished reading it less than a week before Russia invaded last February and it was fascinating seeing the parallels presented in the book and what happened in reality.
      >logistics issues
      >paratroopers being left to die behind enemy lines
      >soldiers gunning down civilians for fun
      >faking videos for propaganda purposes
      >written in 1989 btw

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I liked the book but It lacks Clancy's technoautism when describing all the various pieces of military gear.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Warlord Chronicles and Last kingdom are great too

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Motherfricking Sharpe series.
      Some of the most readable books I've ever come across, and it's fun to see in what way Sharpe is gonna get fricked over in each one

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I need to finish Sharpe. I read the first 20 in the first six months of last year and then stopped for some reason, despite loving the series.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I personally just read whichever one's description I like the most.

          Did you read it in release order or chronological.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Chronological. Things get a bit fricky with the timeline with the transition from India to Spain due to the order the books were written, but it mostly works well.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >Things get a bit fricky with the timeline with the transition from India to Spain

              Yeah, I just skipped the entire pirate adventure/Trafalgar/skullfricking the Dutch part and went straight to the peninsular war bit.

              Although I personally like the India parts the most.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The 13th Valley, John Del Vecchio. Set in the A Shau valley during Operation Texas Star in 1970.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Out of all the fictional WW3 scenarios, I really liked Cauldron. France & Germany strong-arming Europe and going against the US & UK.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Forest Anon recommended Alone at Dawn and Storm of Steel back before his Instagram was deleted. I haven't read them but he's usually always on the money when it comes to good books

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      RSR is one of my fav, other book I liked (not in any specific order) are Rogue Forces and Flight of the Old Dog by Dale Brown, Team Yankee by Harold Coyle, Red Phoenix, Red Army by Ralph Peters, All Sven Hassel books, nor really war books but I liked The Remaining by DJ Molles, The Cobra by Frederick Forsyth

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I didn't love Team Yankee as much as I thought I would. It's not bad but it's not the best written, which I maybe should have expected since it was written by a soldier and not a seasoned author.
        That being said, even though the characterization is barebones (especially for the Soviets, to it dint even need to be included), the idea of how nukes are used was interesting. And it's the most realistic usage I could see, one chance to end it after one use before things fall off the edge into the abyss.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Try The 10,000 by him, I think it's much better than TY

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I have it in my reading book list, still I haven't pick it up yet for some reason.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    * Red Phoenix author is Larry Bond

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      And a lot of his other shit is great too

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    At the risk of being highfalutin, I liked the War Nerd Iliad; an accessible prose adaptation. Lots of comic violence, especially when Athena smacks down Ares.

    Other goodies are Jean Larteguy's The Centurions and George Macdonald Fraser's Flashman series.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Not sure about novels, but the Bible has a lot of war in it and teaches you a lot about war.

    Particularly the Old Testament. Like David and Samson.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >eyewbrow

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >With Earth in the path of the rapacious Posleen, the Galactic Federation offers help to the backward humans -- for a price. You can protect yourself from your enemies, but God save you from your allies!

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Did the gloves come off?

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Easy

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    WTF is an eyewbrow?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah, I misspelled it frick...please understand I'm a special need person.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    For me its Homage to Catalonia.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Just got my copy Monday, once I finish The Iran-Iraq War it's next up

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Not really war but early Clancy, Rainbow Six aged like fine wine with the whole bioterror plot. So many good action scenes too, if that upcoming movie draws anything from the book, I want to see the amusement park.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Also not specifically war related, Robert Ludlum early Jason Bourne and The Matarese Circle are really good books

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        the first borne book is sublime

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Robert Ludlum
        Only in small doses. If you read two of his books back-to-back, you realize they are written algorithmically:
        > a guy
        > wrong place, wrong time; or mistaken identity; or dumb luck
        > stumbles into something odd
        > guy has special talents that come in handy
        > peel back the onion, conspiracy deepens
        > that character you met early in the book? dead by now
        > a woman appears
        > at first, she's super standoffish
        > guy and woman hook up
        > one of them has access to lots of money
        > more conspiracy
        > more narrow escapes
        > already hopped multiple continents
        > 500 pages of narrative, then "deadline!"
        > book ends in 20 pages
        Same shit, just new values for $guy, $woman, $conspiracy

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Movies and tv series as follow the same formula with some added twists (because it just work, most of the time) like the most recent TV series "Condor" or movies like The Fugitive, Collateral, Con Air, No country for old men, Die Hard, Under Siege (I'm just the Cook), etc...

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Forgot to add "One Soldier's War" by Arkady Babchenko, tells the memoir of a young Russian soldier’s experience in the Chechen wars.

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just got done reading OPLAN FULDA: World War III
    Really feels like a spiritual successor to Team Yankee and Red Storm rising, i thoroughly enjoyed it and highly recommend it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >OPLAN FULDA: World War III
      do you have the paperback or pdf/epub version, do you mind to share it? 🙂

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I couldn't find the epub/pdf version, i bought a physical copy of the book instead.
        30 bucks for it was pricy but I enjoyed the read

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Usually I buy my books at the Library Genesis but this book was currently out of stock.

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The most intense account of warfare ever put to the page. I promise you will never forget reading pic rel. I would also highly recommend, in no particular order;
    The Boer War - Winston Churchill
    A Soldier's Place - Will R. Bird
    The Things They Carried - Tim O' Brien
    The Red Badge of Courage - Stephan Crane

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >The Things They Carried

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        What didn't you like about it? It's been awhile since I've read it, I really only remember the part about them taking cover from artillery fire in the villages shit pit.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Has anyone read those Russian books with the crazy covers? Shit like direct invasions of the US or time travel frickery. I want to know if the text is as amusing as the covers.

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No one mentioned the Shaara's???
    Seriously?

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Sci-Fi wars?
    Starship troopers
    Forever War
    Most stuff by Scalzi

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