Based of the direction the SoAF thread is going, I was wondering... What are the best WWIII Books and movies out there?
I read one a long, long time ago which had virtual-reality addicted soldiers, intelligent chimps and even a gang bang, but I'm damned if I can remember the title...
Television movie "The Day After" despite its political motivations is actually a pretty good movie. "Resurrection Day" is a great book about the Cuban Missile Crisis turning nuclear. Entertaining as well as being pretty realistic about the effects on American society recovering from a mild Soviet nuclear attack. But definitive for me are Sir John Hacketts books and those based on them. "The Third World War: August 1985" "The Third World War: The Untold Story" "Team Yankee" "Team Yankee: The Graphic Novel" "Red Army" "First Clash".
Note, a common consensus among "big conventional war between the Superpowers in Europe" seems to be that the war would be short. Damn short. Hacketts war lasts only 18 days while Clancy's "Red Storm Rising" and Palmers "The War That Never Was" last only five or six weeks tops.
Red Dawn! A good conventional WWII movie is Tom Clancy's Red Strom Rising. Everyone agrees not to use nukes, so we get the full-out land war in Europe between the US and the USSR.
From CINCPACFLT: Conduct unrestricted combat operations against Warsaw Pact Forces. Rules of Engagement Option 3 is in effect.
Vampires inbound! Of course my favorite character was F-15 pilot Amy "Buns" Nakamura, who became an ace by shooting down a bunch of Soviet recon satellites with ASAT missiles. I even built a model of her plane, with her first 4 kill marks: http://www.inpayne.com/models/f15asat.html
Actually "Buns" Nakamura downed three TU-16 Badger bombers that had launched the Kelt missile decoys at the Nimitz battle group on the secpnd day of the war. She and several other pilots were ferrying F-15s across the Atlantic when they ran across the Badgers who were headed for home. She got two with her cannon and the third with her lone Sidewinder missile. She then shot down two Soviet RORSATs that were used to monitor NATO fleet movements. She would've gotten a third RORSAT later but the ASATs engine blew up after she launched it.
