YMMV / Red Army

• Broken Base:
  • It's long debated as to whether the book's depiction of a Soviet military victory is as realistic as the book intends it to be and that's all that needs to be said.
  • Whether the book is antipatriotic in more pro-American circles is another thing. On one hand, some have accused the book of being too pessimistic about America while fawning over Soviet capabilities, while supporters and Peters himself argue that the book is pro American on the grounds that it's meant to serve as a warning to brush up on NATO's tactics lest the Moscow overrun the west. Peters subsequent career after the book is similarly open, but critical, support of the United States.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Like most things that dealt with political and military subjects published between 1988-1992, a lot of the foundations of the book were rendered naught by the Soviet collapse. It does serve as an interesting scenario depicting what a grounded war would look like if the Soviets played their cards right however.