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Review:This Tom Clancy real-life military thriller is more nuanced than his novels, because its object is not simply to dramatize armed conflict
but to relate the life lessons of his source, jet-pilot-turned-Desert-Storm-air-commander General Chuck Horner. Horner is no war
cheerleader like General "Buck" Turgidson in Dr. Strangelove. He loathes the arrogance of the backwards, nuke-happy Strategic Air
Command and the madly out-of-touch Vietnam War planner Robert McNamara. McNamara confesses his folly in two books,
Argument Without End and In Retrospect, but Horner's you-are-there account more vividly demonstrates Vietnam's grim lessons.
He flew an F-105 Thunde...
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