How Tom Clancy Made the Military Cool Again
10.04.2013 at 05:03pm
How Tom Clancy Made the Military Cool Again by Erin Simpson and Phillip Carter, Washington Post.
Tom Clancy never served in the military, the intelligence community or any other part of the U.S. government. Instead, he wrote stories of submariners fighting the Cold War, infantrymen fighting the drug war, and spies and analysts looking for enemies in dark alleys and satellite photos. In doing so, the best-selling novelist not only captured the imaginations of many readers, he created a literary bridge across the civil-military divide – inspiring many, including us, to join the units and agencies he wrote about so colorfully…
