It has been 20 years since I read Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy,
I am not an expert at strategies and warfare during Cold War but in my opinion it was a realistic scenario that might happen. Before the end of Cold War, there was limited information about the capabilities ( at least for the public) of Soviet Armed Forces. Cold War has ended and there seems to be much more information about then classified information ( Wikipedia becoming a sort of amateur Jane's, Google Earth giving us details of every military base and of course guided tours of the ships, submarines, aircraft carriers, airbases of Russian Air Forces in YouTube) available to general public and probably more to the professional analyst and military personnel.
So, my question is, since we can understand the capabilities of both Nato and Warsaw Pact during 1980s much better then 20 years ago, Is there any book or article you can suggest for me to read as an update of Red Storm Rising? A book that can draw a very realistic estimate of the performance of weapons, strategies of commanders, and outcome of the war etc.
I am not an expert at strategies and warfare during Cold War but in my opinion it was a realistic scenario that might happen. Before the end of Cold War, there was limited information about the capabilities ( at least for the public) of Soviet Armed Forces. Cold War has ended and there seems to be much more information about then classified information ( Wikipedia becoming a sort of amateur Jane's, Google Earth giving us details of every military base and of course guided tours of the ships, submarines, aircraft carriers, airbases of Russian Air Forces in YouTube) available to general public and probably more to the professional analyst and military personnel.
So, my question is, since we can understand the capabilities of both Nato and Warsaw Pact during 1980s much better then 20 years ago, Is there any book or article you can suggest for me to read as an update of Red Storm Rising? A book that can draw a very realistic estimate of the performance of weapons, strategies of commanders, and outcome of the war etc.