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* SpiritualSuccessor: The Killerfish game ''VideoGame/ColdWaters'' has been explicitly described as a spiritual successor to the ''Red Storm Rising'' PC game.
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Irrelevant and YMMV can't be played with.
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*** Although the KGB Colonel who actually did it gets a KarmaHoudini and is even portrayed as a bit of a ColonelBadass later on.
* RomanticPlotTumor: Handily {{averted}}, surprisingly. You might expect Edwards and Vigdis' relationship to bog down the story. It doesn't, and it is quite clear that the war is the focal point of the story, not the ex-weatherman and the farmgirl.
* RomanticPlotTumor: Handily {{averted}}, surprisingly. You might expect Edwards and Vigdis' relationship to bog down the story. It doesn't, and it is quite clear that the war is the focal point of the story, not the ex-weatherman and the farmgirl.
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** In that case, it was the KGB officer leading the men who seemed to have been assigned the most blame. In fact, most of the negatively portrayed DirtyCommunists in the book (aside from the callously self-serving Politburo members) seem to have been members of the [[AcceptableTargets KGB]].
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** In that case, it was the KGB officer leading the men who seemed to have been assigned the most blame. In fact, most of the negatively portrayed DirtyCommunists in the book (aside from the callously self-serving Politburo members) seem to have been members of the [[AcceptableTargets KGB]].KGB.
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** It should be noted that none of the triumvirate has any interest in revanchism, just getting their nation's economy back in order. But then again, one member of the triumvirate is a very old man, and who knows who will replace him?
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* TearJerker: After bringing the crippled ''Pharris'' into New London, Commander Ed Morris takes it upon himself to visit the families of each of the men he lost. At the last one, a little girl playing in a half-finished backyard playhouse tells him that her daddy (a petty officer who was killed by the torpedo hit) promised to finish it when he got home. Morris only barely maintains his composure until he gets back into his car.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: The Killerfish game ''Cold Waters'' has been explicitly described as a spiritual successor to the ''Red Storm Rising'' PC game.
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* IKnewIt - Several of Clancy's theories, such as high ammunition expenditure and attack helicopters being surprisingly vulnerable, were later proven correct during the various conflicts in the Middle East.
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* AlasPoorVillain:
** For a politically motivated GeneralFailure, [[spoiler: CINC-West]] dies "a soldier's death," shooting at the [[spoiler: American bombers]] that kill him with a machine-gun.
** His successor, [[spoiler:the former CINC-Southwest and Alekseyev's boss]], is given a poignant parting when his plans are ruined and he faces arrest by the KGB, and the last Alekseyev sees of him is his empty holster as he leaves the command tent. [[spoiler:Kosov reveals that he was executed.]]
** For a politically motivated GeneralFailure, [[spoiler: CINC-West]] dies "a soldier's death," shooting at the [[spoiler: American bombers]] that kill him with a machine-gun.
** His successor, [[spoiler:the former CINC-Southwest and Alekseyev's boss]], is given a poignant parting when his plans are ruined and he faces arrest by the KGB, and the last Alekseyev sees of him is his empty holster as he leaves the command tent. [[spoiler:Kosov reveals that he was executed.]]
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* FridgeHorror - The novel ends with a coup overthrowing the existing Soviet regime, and replacing it with a triumverate who immediately sues for peace before NATO can destroy what's left of the Red Army in West Germany. Which, of course, is exactly how World War I ended....and set the stage for World War II. Not to mention the fact that the wealthiest parts of Europe were destroyed in the war, and hundreds of billions of dollars of U.S. military equipment were consumed in the fighting, while the East Asian nations were unaffected, and the post-war situation does not look bright.
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* AlasPoorVillain:
** For a politically motivated GeneralFailure, [[spoiler: CINC-West]] dies "a soldier's death," shooting at the [[spoiler: American bombers]] that kill him with a machine-gun.
** His successor, [[spoiler:the former CINC-Southwest and Alekseyev's boss]], is given a poignant parting when his plans are ruined and he faces arrest by the KGB, and the last Alekseyev sees of him is his empty holster as he leaves the command tent. [[spoiler:Kosov reveals that he was executed.]]
** For a politically motivated GeneralFailure, [[spoiler: CINC-West]] dies "a soldier's death," shooting at the [[spoiler: American bombers]] that kill him with a machine-gun.
** His successor, [[spoiler:the former CINC-Southwest and Alekseyev's boss]], is given a poignant parting when his plans are ruined and he faces arrest by the KGB, and the last Alekseyev sees of him is his empty holster as he leaves the command tent. [[spoiler:Kosov reveals that he was executed.]]
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*** Although the KGB Colonel who actually did it gets a KarmaHoudini and is even portrayed as a bit of a ColonelBadass later on.
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* IKnewIt - Several of Clancy's theories, such as high ammunition expenditure and attack helicopters being surprisingly vulnerable, were later proven correct during the various conflicts in the Middle East.
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* RomanticPlotTumor: Handily {{averted}}, surprisingly. You might expect Edwards and Vigdis' relationship to bog down the story. It doesn't, and it is quite clear that the war is the focal point of the story, not the ex-weatherman and the farmgirl.
