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Cold War Era WWIII Novels Round One (Part 2) 6 Executive Orders 11 Show of Force Executive Orders had a lot to live up to upon release. At the end of the previous Jack Ryan novel, Debt of Honor, Ryan becomes the vice president. Minutes later a JAL 747 flown by a grief-stricken and disgruntled …
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Version 1.0.0 Cold War Era WWIII Novels Round One (Part 1) 1 Alas Babylon 16 WWIII The first bracket of this round will reveal that I’ve taken the opportunity to include some WWIII novels that I feel have been shortchanged to certain degrees. Whether by me, historians or the literary world in general, it is …
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Contemporary WWIII Novels Round I (Part 2) 6 The Bear and the Dragon 11 Northern Fury This was a very interesting matchup for a number of reasons. Bear was Tom Clancy’s last true technothriller/political intrigue novel. Everything else released from Bear until the author’s untimely death was more acclimated for contemporary readers, meaning Clancy’s books …
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Contemporary WWIII Novels Round I (Continued) 4 War with China Series (David Poyer) 13 Iron Crucible Series (T.K Blackwood) Two series square off here. Each one offers in-detail examinations of two hypothetical wars that have captured the minds of wargamers and military novelists for decades. The first conflict is a NATO-Warsaw Pact world war. T.K. …
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To jumpstart this first round properly I will be posting half of the contemporary brackets as well The rest will follow on Tuesday evening along with the Cold War era novel brackets and then we move into the next round. Contemporary WWIII Novels Round I 1 One Second After 16 World War 1990: Operation Arctic …
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Alright, here is the field for the 2026 March Madness WWIII tournament. I have selected thirty-two World War III novels, half published before 1996 and the remainder after. I will set up the regions and brackets tomorrow, post them on Saturday and we can begin diving into the tournament on Sunday. Simple plan, and I …
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First thing is first. I’ve linked up with Advance to Contact’s author Alex Aaronson and we’ll be doing an interview/entry part II next week hopefully. He was happy to see that I have started reviewing his book. It’s certainly time to talk with him about the Soviet Endgame series and see where he’s going next. …
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Advance to Contact: 1980 (Soviet Endgame) by Alex Aaronson and James Rosone. I seriously considered pulling this title from the rotation given what’s going on currently in the Middle East. In the end I simply said ‘screw it’ this book is about an alternative history Cold War, nothing to do with the present day. To …
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I would like to kick things off with a reassessment of some contemporary WWIII novels that I’ve read at different points over the past five years. I have selected six books that were published between 2005 and 2024. Three of them are 1980s NATO-WP Europe-based World War III scenarios and the remainder occur at other …
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March has certainly come in like a lion. I expected that to be the case and that is the reason why I decided on an early March sabbatical from blogging. I read the tea leaves and thought the first week of the month would be a busy time at work. Now here we are on …
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