History YMMV / ShadowOps

* CriticalResearchFailure: The series is utterly riddled with them, pretty much relating to any culture outside of the United States:
** Hindus are depicted as revering the naga from the Source as gods, despite the naga in the Source having only vaguely superficial connections to classic Hindu deities. Even worse, the character who is bonded with a naga is mentioned to be a Sikh, [[UsefulNotes/{{Sikhism}} who have a completely different religion from Hinduism]] and has nothing to do with snakes. This is akin to a Christian worshipping a pagan Norse god in terms of how inaccurate it is.
** Native Americans, particularly the Apache rebels, are depicted as revering the ''gahe'' shadow creatures as gods, which has utterly no basis in any actual Native American religions.
** Several combat scenes involve blatant tactical mistakes, such as goblin warriors threatening defended human positions with javelins, or any time a hostile flying creature gets in sight of a defended human position and isn't instantly shot down. At one point a Black Hawk helicopter is flying so low to the ground while shooting at invading goblins that an ogre can reach up and grab it by the landing gear.
** The SuperhumanRegistrationAct has absolutely no basis or backing at all in the Constitution, especially as presented in the series, and is so severely unconstitutional that it would be thrown out almost instantly by any federal court, let alone survive for several years as it is shown in the books.
** The second book suggests for a time the US Coast Guard was floundering for a mission, between mages dispersing hurricanes and the legalization of marijuana. In actuality, disaster relief and drug enforcement are just two of the eleven missions of the Coast Guard and not even the largest commitment of money and man-hours. That and marijuana trade is one of the least profitable forms of the drug trade, with heroin and cocaine being the most commonly smuggled drugs via the ocean.

* CriticalResearchFailure: The series is utterly riddled with them, pretty much relating to any culture outside of the United States.

** Several combat scenes involve [[HollywoodTactics blatant tactical mistakes]], such as goblin warriors threatening defended human positions with javelins, or any time a hostile flying creature gets in sight of a defended human position and isn't instantly shot down. At one point a Black Hawk helicopter is flying so low to the ground while shooting at invading goblins that an ogre can reach up and grab it by the landing gear.
** One bit of worldbuilding involves Fundamentalist Muslims functionally taking over Europe and forming a Caliphate there. This requires belief in historically empty threats of immigrants "outbreeding" natives that have been used for racist scaremongering throughout history.

** The second book suggests for a time the US Coast Guard was floundering for a mission, between mages dispersing hurricanes and the legalization of marijuana. In actuality, disaster relief and drug enforcement are just two of the ''eleven'' missions of the Coast Guard and not even the largest commitment of money and man-hours. That and marijuana trade is one of the ''least'' profitable forms of the drug trade, with heroin and cocaine being the most commonly smuggled drugs via the ocean.
* EvenBetterSequel / SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: ''Fortress Frontier'' is generally viewed far more favorable than ''Control Point''.

** The second book suggests for a time the US Coast Guard was floundering for a mission, between mages dispersing hurricanes and the legalization of marijuana. In actuality, disaster relief and drug enforcement are just two of the ''eleven'' missions of the Coast Guard and not even the largest commitment of money and man-hours.

** Anyone with a basic understanding of the US Constitution could see how blatantly the Grauer-[=McLinden=] act violates nearly the entire Bill of Rights in the Constitution, especially the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Amendments on subjects such as trial by jury, due process, and cruel and unusual punishment. In addition, Firebase Frontier's entire existence is an egregious violation of the War Powers Act. The laws regarding Latents are so extremely unconstitutional that they would have been swatted down the moment any suit got in front of a judge.
** Several combat scenes involve [[HollywoodTactics blatant tactical mistakes]], such as goblin warriors threatening defended human positions with javelins, or any time a hostile flying creature gets in sight of a defended human position and isn't instantly shot down. At one point a Black Hawk helicopter is flying so low to the ground while shooting at invading goblins that an ogre can reach up and grab it by the landing gear.
** One bit of worldbuilding involves Fundamentalist Muslims functionally taking over Europe and forming a Caliphate there. This requires belief in historically empty threats of immigrants "outbreeding" natives that have been used for racist scaremongering throughout history.

** Hindus are depicted as revering the naga from the Source as gods, despite the naga in the Source having only vaguely superficial connections to classic Hindu deities.

* CriticalResearchfailure: The series is utterly riddled with them, pretty much relating to any culture outside of the United States.

** Anyone with a basic understanding of the US Constitution could see how blatantly the Grauer-[=McLinden=] act violates nearly the entire Bill of Rights in the Constitution, especially the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Amendments on subjects such as trial by jury, due process, and cruel and unusual punishment. In addition, Firebase Frontier's entire existence is an egregious violation of the War Powers Act.

** Anyone with a basic understanding of the US Constitution could see how blatantly the Grauer-[=McLinden=] act violates both nearly the entire Bill of Rights in the Constitution, especially the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Amendments on subjects such as trial by jury, due process, and cruel and unusual punishment. In addition, Firebase Frontier's entire existence is an egregious violation of the War Powers Act.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Some readers of ''Control Point'' disliked the protagonist for his Selfer apologism and the bad decisions he made in the novel.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Many reader of the ''Control Point'' disliked the protagonist for his Selfer apologism and the bad decisions he made in the novel.