The only troll is you Xabbabut....we are having a normal discussion and you have to get personal. That, to me is a troll. So please do us all a favour and either get with the program and join in the discussion without getting personal...or shut the *$@! up.
No, I am a big Clancy fan...I wish I was him though. But I'm not. The simple fact remains, if it was Bond's novel, HIS NAME would be on the front.
Now, I'm going to show you why your statement is so stupid, to say the least. Red Storm Rising was written prior to 1984 (because that's when HforRO came out and we know Tom started writing RsR before that, even though it was published after.) Bond's first novel was published in 1990, nearly a full decade later. Tom has a Masters in Literature. Larry doesn't. Though just the timescale is absurd. Write a book today, then a next one ten years down the line.
And not only that...you're saying it must be Larry's book because it's in a similar style to the one he wrote about ten years later? Don't you think maybe he was influenced by Tom's writing style? Remember that Tom has given Larry a push in the literary world by giving him some great reviews and comments...because Tom is a nice guy. Though what you say is absurd....Tom is a writer, Larry isn't. End of.
And no...the US would never have doctrine for a first strike, ecexpt for a pre-emptive (which is launching just before an IMMINENT Soviet strike) aimed at Soviet silos and laucnhers. This is common knowledge. You must remember that the US was and still is a democracy. There is no place in a democracy for the anihilation of your enemies. Unlike Soviet-Stalinist Russia which was more akin to a despotic, dictatorial regime inspired by a mass-murderer in the Hitler mould (Stalin).