Despite the liberal posters and armchair military experts, I loved this book! Sure, many of the weapons and situations are fictional (as far as I know). The excessive military jargon was almost humorous and actually fun to read. Brown makes sure you know what all the acronyms mean. The situations and flight duals with jets and missiles were great. The plot had some great twists.It had me looking up all the different aircraft...
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Fantastic Audio Book by Dale Brown. He is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. In this story the US is about to retire the B2 and other large heavy artillery bombers from service as many see they are no longer needed...At the same time China has decided that it finally wants Taiwan back and is going to go after it. Mostly with the plans of one man with a few outrageous ideas, making it seem like the US is helping Taiwan...
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Dale Brown's Fatal Terrain is one of the best military novels of our generation. I have read several of his novels, and thought this was the best by far. He really goes to lengths to make sure you understand what's going on and this makes for a great read for anybody, knowledgeable of the military or not.
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In Fatal Terrain, Dale Brown plays out an all-too-real scenario...Communist China trying to retake possession of Taiwan. And unfortunately, the US response is just how I imagine it to be, complete with interservice rivalry and backroom backstabbing.No doubt, Brad Elliott is a maverick, and he doesn't always lead with his head. But he is the leader of this group, after all, a group that has done everything from knock out...
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Fatal Terrain is Dale Brown's much-anticipated 10th novel, and it was a pretty darn good read. The theme of a Chinese attitude of aggression towards its neighbors seems realistic in light of the Chinese display of force a couple years ago near Taiwan. In the book China decides to attack Taiwan using "all" the weapons in its inventory. By the last 1/3 of the book, Chinese nukes were flying quite freely all over the Far East,...
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