The Russians Invade America

A dark future

My Daemon

Pierre Rehov

High-Tech Armored Giants Battle In The Ultimate Test of Courage And Skill

Armor At Fulda Gap: A Visual Novel of the War of Tomorrow
By: John L. Cook
Published: 1990

When Armor at Fulda Gap was published the world was undergoing great change as the Soviet Union was on the brink of collapse and the Cold War was winding down. Cooks novel invisions a time a few years in the future when hardliners have seized power in Moscow and decided to launch a strike against NATO forces starting World War III. Focasing on the first week of the war Cook tells the story of American forces trying to defend Central Germany from the Soviet invasion. Cook writes in a semi-documentry style treating his subject like history rather then fiction. Interesting for sci-fi junkies (Cook has both American and Soviet forces using near future weapons) as well as for military buffs, the book, though short may be too technical for the casual reader. Final verdict, Interesting but certainly not a essential reading in 2007.

*** out of *****

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Fulda Gap

Too Much Time on My Hands

Counter-Terrorism: The War Within the War

The Advisor
By: Lt. Col. John L. Cook
Published: 1987

Vietnam 1968: Into the aftermath of the Tet Offensive steps Lt. John Cook an Intelligence officer with the U.S. Army. He has been assigned to work as an advisor with South Vietnamese forces in Di An District, Bien Hoa Province as part of the Phoenix Progam. Over the next 2 years Cook and his fellow advisors will work to eliminate the Viet Cong Infastructure in Di An, the shadow government that taxes and terrorizes the population, and makes murderous examples of those who question them. The Advisor is Cooks true life story of his 2 years in Vietnam, which ended with the virtual destruction of the Viet Cong in his district and is a testement to the brave men who sacrificed for a noble cause but where ultimately betrayed by politicians and the "Peace" movement back home. Cook and his fellow soldiers, American and South Vietnamiese, have a right to be proud of what they tried to accomplish, may the anti-war movement be forever damned, they share responsability for the Communists crimes against the Vietnamese people.