ospalh reviewed Nimitz Class by Patrick Robinson
Jingoism and repetition
2 stars
Apart from the many details that are off, sees my comments, this isn’t all that well written. Every time a new character shows up one of the known characters tells the new one what we have read in the previous pages. That is one way to pad a book.
There are some scenes where the US president is talking to military leaders how they all should work together to get him reelected. I would hope that they would remind him that that is the kind of thing he should discuss with his party members, not the military. And the author seems to think that we would joint the cheering squad. Maybe the real target audience for this book? Which, i guess, isn’t me after all.
I thought about giving this three stars instead of two. What brought it down was the epilogue, where it is seriously suggested and …
Apart from the many details that are off, sees my comments, this isn’t all that well written. Every time a new character shows up one of the known characters tells the new one what we have read in the previous pages. That is one way to pad a book.
There are some scenes where the US president is talking to military leaders how they all should work together to get him reelected. I would hope that they would remind him that that is the kind of thing he should discuss with his party members, not the military. And the author seems to think that we would joint the cheering squad. Maybe the real target audience for this book? Which, i guess, isn’t me after all.
I thought about giving this three stars instead of two. What brought it down was the epilogue, where it is seriously suggested and considered to murder large numbers of Iraqi civilians by blowing up two dams in retaliation for an attack on a military target, because some guy said it would kill fewer people than several millions.
Yeah, no. Keep that stuff away from me.
