Posted on 05/27/2015 2:35:02 AM PDT by Krosan
Barring the obvious disbelief about a three star general being sent to jail for a bad command decision during an operation.
More than skin actually....in the opening credits scenes she sported more than skin. I remember it because we were in the base theater and there were some real whoops and hollers going on for sure. I always like to credit her for this movie as her best works because it didn’t involve her mind.
Here is Clancy’s Playboy interview.
I’m not aware of anyone credible predicting the collapse of the Russian empire, and I don’t see it in this interview, is it in there?
http://www.playboy.com/articles/playboy-interview-tom-clancy
Hmm ... didn’t find it there either. I must have remembered wrong. I thought I had read it somewhere. He said something along the lines “nothing in Soviet Union works”. Here he says something similar - “The Soviet Union is a third-world country in every real sense–but a third-world country with 10,000 deliverable nuclear warheads. The country cannot feed itself. You cannot drive from one side of the country to the other on a paved road.”, but not about it collapsing.
When the Evil empire was brought down by Reagan, within months the media came up with a theme that everyone knew that it was going to collapse on it’s own anyway, and instantly in conversations, that theme became the smug saying of wisdom from everyone, a rewrite to erase Reagan and perhaps the biggest foreign policy/military success of all time, and based on a strategy that Reagan had worked and trained for, for decades.
Back then I spent about a year searching and searching for all those articles predicting that the Russian empire was going to collapse soon anyway, and I couldn’t find any of them, it is a myth.
The USSR was seen on the ascendancy until Reagan started challenging them and beating them globally, hacking at them globally, reversing Russian won/lost trends globally.
Reagan was a the man who said that the USSR could be defeated, and he did it in 8 years.
Cheesey movie, but the battle scene at the end was kind of cool. Only liked Redford in Jeremiah Johnson.
Haven’t seen Jeremiah Johnson. Will get it now. Thanks for the recommendation.
It's a story about a mountain man in wild Colorado(?), early 1800's(?).
I was going to ask what the book’s name is, but decided to look it up myself. I think it still warrants a mention. The book is ....
Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson
Good book.
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