I agree with you that US and South Korean should NEVER sign the peace treat until North Korea makes some major progresses on denuclearization and Moon administration has been repeatedly saying that since he took the office. I am not sure where is the disconnection?
Even tho you don't believe nuclear war could happen on Korean soil, but a lot of Korean experts, ex-CIA directors, and US policy makers believe there are about 20% to 30% chance that we might have 1-day nuclear war on Korean peninsular due to miss calculation/judgement and I believe their expert opinions.
There is also a new book that describes one case of 1-day nuclear Korean war due to miss-judgement.
https://www.amazon.com/Commission-Report-Nuclear-Attacks-Against-ebook/dp/B079VDR6HM
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If anyone is doing some holiday shopping and wants to "school some special snowflakes in the not-so-liberal art of war"
Predator is the first one, more to come
https://www.amazon.com/Predator-Escape-Tarkov-Alexander-Kontorovich-ebook/dp/B07B9HZYCT
The nuclear nonproliferation expert who wrote The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States, which among other things is about how Trump's belligerent off the cuff tweets could have contributed to a nuclear disaster, said he had to dial back the tweets he sampled for his book to make them more believable.
Tarkov Site (Buying from their site will get you the in-game content that comes with)
This is quite a wild fan fic you have wrote.
It's like I'm reading an excerpt from https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077X12YNG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
All good except for one thing - North Korea can definitely hit most of the US with their ICBMs. The Hwasong-15 has a 8000+ mile range. That puts Washington DC within hitting distance, even if with uncertain accuracy.
Sidenote: Jeffrey Lewis of the Arms Control Wonk website wrote a great contemporary-fiction book called, “THE 2020 COMMISSION REPORT ON THE NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR ATTACKS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES - A SPECULATIVE NOVEL” which describes a hypothetical NoKo first strike on US soil based on their contemporary arsenal which includes the eastern seaboard. It’s a “fun” read.
Here is a link to the book on Amazon. It's something like $10 on Kindle. "Locked On" is another good one from Clancy, and on of his last books written. Locked On takes place after R6 has pretty much been disbanded and it's original operators have retired.
They used to sell three different ones on their site, but those are now gone. I think all of them were written in Russian, but this is the first one that has been translated to English.
If you want to see a 'Republican Dad' novel that could be turned into either 'Republican Dad blockbuster action movie' or 'TV miniseries' with Chris Pratt as the star, check out right-wing blowhard Ben Shapiro's attempt at becoming the new Tom Clancy, 'True Allegiance'. It's like 'The Room' or 'Plan 9 From Outer Space' of novels. A link to its Amazon page is below and be sure to use the 'Look Inside' feature to get a sampling of Shapiro's purple prose:
https://www.amazon.com/True-Allegiance-Ben-Shapiro/dp/1682610772
Interested to know this too. The first one is on Amazon but the 2nd and 3rd aren’t.
I guess calling someone smart or stupid is probably using too broad a brush.
He’s a functional propagandist, and can gish gallop like a motherfucker, I don’t think that necessarily makes him smart. He’s definitely not self-aware. Half the shit he says doesn’t even make sense.
You should read just a small chunk of any book he’s written. It might just change your perspective on his mental capacity. I recommend True Allegiance for a good laugh.
There's actually a novel called The 2020 Commission about a hypothetical nuclear exchange between the US and North Korea and one of the plot points is that a North Korean nuke misses DC and lands on Arlington. Read it while I was still living in Clarendon.
Hey I know this is an old post but I found out you can buy the kindle version of the first book on Amazon. Listed as the same author and everything. Second and third aren't on there though..
Reading your post makes me angry at Congress, because you're right. It's likely an argument (/s) for term limits-but not those term limits that everyone talks about.
(Good fictional (not a guide) book that captures the disfunction of Congress and D.C. thanks to partisan politics.)
Oh man, this book looks amazing. It appears to be a thriller written by a machine learning bot fed Fox News stories.
Kinda reminds me of the storytelling in Escape from Tarkov. If you play the game then you should read the book based in that universe, Predator: Escape from Tarkov.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B9HZYCT?ref=KC\_GS\_GB\_US
It actually is really good and helps explain the lore of the scavs and traders in a realistic way, even quests too!
It'll be interesting to read more on the No-Pats closer to launch.
Reading the reviews on Amazon suggest it is.
In fact reading the reviews for it on Amazon is definitely more enjoyable than actually reading the book, if the reviews are to be be believed.
And I have no reason to doubt them ;)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1682610772/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_7XFWQ1G94HCA0WRGV8BC
Holy hell it is just straight up conservative fan fiction. The description on Amazon is.
>America is coming apart. An illegal immigration crisis has broken out along America's Southern border—there are race riots in Detroit—a fiery female rancher-turned-militia leader has vowed revenge on the president for his arrogant policies—and the world's most notorious terrorist is planning a massive attack that could destroy the United States as we know it. Meanwhile the President is too consumed by legacy-seeking to see our country’s deep peril.
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>Brett Hawthorne is the youngest general in the United States Army—and he’s stuck, alone, behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. He’s the last lost soldier of a failed war, fighting to stay alive and make it back home—but will he be able to stop the collapse of America in time?
I think those are from the book Tom Clancy's The Division: Broken Dawn.
At least the second audio seems to be the first chapter which you could read on the german Amazon page
Tom Clancy's The Division: Morgengrauen: Roman zum Game Kindle Edition
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> Like Wtf, imagine a nuclear war breaks out but orange dumpling is out golfing..
The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States: A Speculative Novel
by Jeffrey Lewis
Shit goes down while they're at Mar-a-lago. It discusses the actual setup they use there (not all the people that travel with the president can stay at maralago) and the implications of not having everyone immediately accessible.
https://www.amazon.com/Commission-Report-Nuclear-Attacks-Against-ebook/dp/B079VDR6HM
(Disclaimer: As a novel, it was mediocre. But its loaded to the gills with actual information [with citations] and I actually learned a bunch.)
I've noticed a lot of these people view the world as just one big hierarchy where there has to be someone holding power over another at all times. When they hear someone say they don't like the country and want to make it better for minorities, women, LGBT people, etc. they think it means those people want to take control of the top spot on the hierarchy, which means straight white cis dudes with old fashioned values get kicked to the bottom.
From personal experience on a smaller scale, I see this a lot in the pro writing community. There's always complaining that publishers wanting diverse casts and diverse authors means straight white guys have no chance to tell their stories, but this unironic right wing power fantasy got published by an actual company and made money. POC and LGBT stories/authors being picked up more often doesn't mean there aren't any opportunities for everyone else. It just means they lost their unfair advantage now that all stories are being told. That's a pretty good metaphor for the liberal view of equality I guess.
There's a really good book by Jeffrey Lewis who works the arms control and nuclear nonproliferation industry... it's written as an after action report detailing how a tweet by Trump leads to a nuclear exchange with North Korea... given the personalities of Trump and Kim Jong Un it is disturbingly plausible.
https://www.amazon.com/Commission-Report-Nuclear-Attacks-Against-ebook/dp/B079VDR6HM
Alex Irvine has (at least) one as well. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1984803174/?coliid=I2SS3RDZ67HC1&colid=J7EWMPXK53MK&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
Here is Extremis Malis https://www.amazon.com/dp/1506710425/?coliid=I19469PX0KB9DE&colid=J7EWMPXK53MK&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
I started reading this yesterday and that was really bad timing because now I get existential dread for Christmas. Fantastic book from one of the leading authorities on the subject though even though it's a hypothetical fictional story.
> Rainbow Six novel
https://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-Six-John-Clark-Novel/dp/0425170349
The game is called Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege, inspired by the novel released in the 90s, though they don't share characters or settings.
https://www.amazon.com/True-Allegiance-Ben-Shapiro/dp/1682610772
True Alliegiance - Ben Shapiro
It's a look into Ben's mind via his "fiction" which is really just a thinly veiled alternate imagining of history and the current political climate.
I'm wrapping up reading Rogue Warrior by Richard Marcinko. Very much worth the read. I'm over 3/4 of the way in, and it made me realize that if I could do it over again, I think I'd have at least given BUD/S a shot rather than go Army like I did.
Any relationship to Richard Markinko and his Red Cell experience that he talks about in his book.
Article behind paywall, so unable to read.
Most if not anything with Tom Clancy's name on it has that name on it because it was inspired or loosely based off of a Tom Clancy book of the same name. Examples include but are not limited to Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, and more. As for the actual questons >Are they good? What's the reading order?
I can't answer those, never read 'em.