Interesting Tom Clancy facts?

Question

I was talking to my dad one time and it was right after i read "Red Storm Rising" Clancy's view on World War III between NATO and the Soviet Union.

The book was writen in 1983-84 and when it came out, my dad was on the city council for our town. One day the council was touring our town's air force base turned intelligence gathering school.

Well he had been so amazed by the book and wanted to find out some information on it, so he pulled a officer who was giving them the tour aside and asked him about the authenticity of the book.

Now keep in mind that while stealth had been a public theory for over 10 years at that time, no one outside of the militaty knew that it was in fact all ready in use.

Well the officer told him that he really couldnt answer his questions of how truthfull the book was. But a little while later (this being 6 years before we would see stealth in Iraq), the officer came back up to him. he said that he had thought it over and decided he coudl ansdwer.

"We can do everything in that book and a hell of a lot more."

Answer 1

Every author, such as Clancy, has more on the ball than we sometimes give them credit for..
It's like in WW2, one of the newspapers had a crossword that some of the answers for were the area where D-Day was about to take place, and the English and US were sure there was an intelligence leak, but, turned out to be only coincidence..
The puzzles were developed well in advance of the print date, and the print dates just happened to coincide with the planning..
Strange but true..
Look at HG Welles, and others of that genre, they predicted lots of things that we now take for granted.