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Chains of Command
by Dale Brown (Narrator: Robert Culp)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: New Millennium Audio (2002-10)
ISBN: 1590071689
EAN: 9781590071687
Dewey Decimal #: 813.54
Binding/Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: Abridged
SKU: AManPro-0000516
Condition: New
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Two years after Operation Desert Storm, the problems facing military forces around the world have changed dramatically. In the US, active-duty military units have been drastically cut and reserve forces built up. Then an unusual mission comes up. By the author of "Night of the Hawk".
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Customer Reviews
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Good book that ends wrong
Rating  (4)
Date: 2006-03-28
The overall book is good. However the end is not as good as the rest of it. It is not as convincing as the beginning and feels like it was written in a rush to print. Too much Technical data that will appeal to those who like airplanes only.
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Petty Politics and Poor Plot
Rating  (1)
Date: 2003-08-08
2 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
Dale Brown has much technical information about the F-111, and he batters his reader with the most insignificant, irrelevant detail. And while his irrelevant details about the aircraft might be at least accurate, most of the other basic machinery of his plots is not. He'd like to champion the liberal treatment on the part of the all-wise US military in general and Dale Brown in particular of the female warrior in contrast with the backward Turks. Fact is, however, that Turkish military forces have long had women in combat positions. His geography is often just plain wrong. But it is Brown's incessant, hysterical, and thoroughly irrelevant bashing of the Clintons that completely destroys any claim CHAINS OF COMMAND might have of being a novel. In his hate-filled brain, military officers, both junior and senior, curse their commander-in-chief and the First Lady with great frequency. Good military personnel in fact do no such thing. Whatever they may think, a good military woman or man understands the way the United States chain of command works. And in this same hate-filled imagination of his, Brown creates wholly unbelievable situations that make the Clintons, and folks from Arkansas generally, look and act like clowns. No matter whether one voted for Bill or Hillary Clinton or ever would, the pure venom spewed by Brown ruins what could have been a passible novel. I can't read Brown anymore. I can't bring myself to wade through the pettiness of his political and technical irrelevancies and incorrectness to get at the one or two solid elements of his story.
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Another winner for Dale Brown
Rating (4)
Date: 2002-11-06
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Another great thriller from DB. In this one you have a bit of a change from the normal Patrick McClannahan story and you meet Mace as well as the "Iron Maiden". The world has changed and many of the fighter pilots are now part of the reserves, and a huge percentage of them are women. See what they have to do to become fighter pilots.You will also learn a lot about photon bombs and their destruction of life etc. In this story you will cover a lot of ground from the Ukraine, Turkey to Plattsburgh NY as well as Iraq. It is a fast paced story with the normal plethora of detail on military actions as well as equipment from DB. I really enjoyed this story but I think Fatal Terrain is my favorite so far...
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get the facts right
Rating  (2)
Date: 2000-01-07
8 out of 13 customers found this reveiw helpful
I kind of like many of Dale's books, although I would rate them consistently lower than Clancy or Bond. This one is however below average. The first half is decent, especially the Desert Storm mission, although the top brass' reaction to the latter is unrealistic. The second half is a let-down, with totally unbelievable actions. And the Clinton bashing alone takes at least two points of the rating. By the way, maybe Mr Brown could buy a decent map of the world? The Hong-Kong gaff in Fatal Terrain has been highlighted before, but here he manages to mix up Slovakia (formed from the former Czechoslovakia) with Slovenia (formed from the former Yugoslavia), even in the map included in the book.
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Yick.
Rating (1)
Date: 1999-11-10
6 out of 15 customers found this reveiw helpful
I had been a casual fan of Brown's work until I paid money for this monstrosity. The plot is dull- a lame rehash of the countless "rise of the old USSR" that have flooded the genre since the events of 1991. The characters are weak, and the plot twists are weaker. Worst of all is Brown's disgusting Clinton-bashing, so naked in its hostility that it makes Brown look foolish and petty. Maybe Brown should have spent less time whining about Clinton than writing a better story. Better yet- he could give me my money back.
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