'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. near-crash in Libya in 1962 belongs in a Tom Clancy film. Horner's improbable survival of a 150-m.p.h. The action scenes aren't quite as brilliant as those in Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, but Clancy fans will find plenty to admire. Horner thinks the interservice and international cooperation in the Gulf War was way better than in Vietnam, but there's ample room for improvement. His idea of a hero is Boomer McBroom's pilot Captain Gentner Drummond, who won a Flying Cross medal for refusing AWACS orders to down a jet that turned out to be a Saudi ally. 'Seems he wasn't part of a monolithic Communist plot, and hated the Chinese more than anything else.' Horner is savvy about the screwups, the achievements, and the political maneuvering in and after the Gulf War, as leaders and branches of service battled for PR victories. Putnam's Sons, 1999 - Persian Gulf War, 1991 - 564 pages 4 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when. 'All we really had to do was befriend Ho,' says Horner sensibly. Every Man a Tiger Tom Clancy, Chuck Horner G.P. He flew an F-105 Thunderbird 'Thud' fighter in the Wild Weasels, the unit with the highest medals-per-aircrew ratio, knew pilots who were stoned to death by villagers, and realized all the bombing did zero good. McNamara confesses his folly in two books, Argument Without End and In Retrospect, but Horner's you-are-there account more vividly demonstrates Vietnam's grim lessons. He loathes the arrogance of the backwards, nuke-happy Strategic Air Command and the madly out-of-touch Vietnam War planner Robert McNamara. Horner is no war cheerleader like General 'Buck' Turgidson in Dr.

This Tom Clancy real-life military thriller is more nuanced than his novels, because its object is not simply to dramatize armed conflict but to relate the life lessons of his source, jet-pilot-turned-Desert-Storm-air-commander General Chuck Horner.

Every Man a Tiger by Tom Clancy