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97-528: Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American novelist. He is best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science storylines set during and after the Cold War . Seventeen of his novels have been bestsellers and more than 100 million copies of his books have been sold. His name was also used on screenplays written by ghostwriters , nonfiction books on military subjects occasionally with co-authors, and video games. He

194-509: A 1936 Act of Congress . The U.S. Naval Institute was formed on October 9, 1873 by fifteen naval officers gathered at the U.S. Naval Academy's Department of Physics and Chemistry building in Annapolis to discuss, among other topics, the implications of a smaller post- Civil War Navy. Rear Admiral John L. Worden , former commander of the USS Monitor , served as the first president. In 1874,

291-688: A 1949 proposal to merge the Marines' aviation units into the Air Force. Naval History is the Naval Institute's bimonthly magazine. First published in 1987, its articles detail the role of sea power in U.S. history. The magazine's contributors have included historians David McCullough and James M. McPherson ; former sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen such as Ernest Borgnine , Gene Hackman , and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ; and journalists, including Walter Cronkite and Tom Brokaw . The Naval Institute Press

388-689: A complex cultural transition when moving between environments," and they can expect positive and negative transition outcomes. Finding a good job and reestablishing a fulfilling family life is high on their resettlement agenda. Military life is often violent and dangerous. The trauma of combat often results in post-traumatic stress disorder as well as painful physical health challenges which often lead to homelessness , suicide , substance , and excessive alcohol use , and family dysfunction. Society recognizes its responsibilities to veterans by offering programs and policies designed to redress these problems. Veterans also exert an influence on society often through

485-466: A constant process over thousands of years, and the essential tactics, strategy, and goals of military operations have been unchanging throughout history. As an example, one notable maneuver is the double envelopment , considered to be the consummate military maneuver, notably executed by Hannibal at the Battle of Cannae in 216 BCE, and later by Khalid ibn al-Walid at the Battle of Walaja in 633 CE. Via

582-485: A difficulty in operating without high technology assets if depleted or destroyed. Soviet military doctrine (and its descendants, in CIS countries) relies heavily on masses of machinery and troops, a highly educated (albeit very small) officer corps, and pre-planned missions. Its advantages are that it does not require well educated troops, does not require a large logistic train, is under tight central control, and does not rely on

679-451: A four-year book/multimedia deal. Clancy followed this up with an agreement with Penguin 's Berkley Books for 24 paperbacks to tie in with the ABC television miniseries Tom Clancy's Net Force , which aired in the fall/winter of 1998. The Op-Center universe has laid the ground for the series of books written by Jeff Rovin , which was in an agreement worth $ 22 million, bringing the total value of

776-448: A level of battlefield awareness that opponents cannot match. Its advantages are extreme flexibility, extreme lethality, and a focus on removing an opponent's C3I (command, communications, control, and intelligence) to paralyze and incapacitate rather than destroying their combat power directly (hopefully saving lives in the process). Its drawbacks are high expense, a reliance on difficult-to-replace personnel, an enormous logistic train, and

873-492: A married Catholic and I don't do that." In a 2002 interview with Lev Grossman for Time magazine, Clancy lamented what he perceived as society's double standard in the way Catholics are viewed by some people in society in relation to other demographic segments: "You can't hate black people any more, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals any more, but you can hate all the Catholics you want." Clancy's 80-acre estate, which

970-661: A new foreign policy doctrine, under which the United States will hold personally accountable any foreign leader who orders attacks on U.S. citizens, territory, or possessions in the future. Numerous scholars have examined the political dimensions of Clancy's books, especially in the context of the Cold War. Historian Walter Hixson has argued that Clancy's novels, especially The Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising, were "popular representations of Reagan-era Cold War values. They reflect both popular perceptions of Soviet behavior and

1067-500: A private Catholic secondary school taught by the Jesuit religious order ( Society of Jesus ). He graduated from Loyola High School in 1965. He then attended the associated Loyola College (now Loyola University Maryland) in Baltimore. Clancy began his college career as a physics major. Due to poor grades, he later changed his concentration to English since, "...it was an easy major." Despite

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1164-451: A scenario wherein a disgruntled Japanese airline pilot crashes a fueled Boeing 747 into the U.S. Capitol dome during an address by the President to a joint session of Congress, killing the President and most of Congress. In the book, Clancy also implies that Japan's prosperity is due primarily to unequal trading terms. In the book's sequel Executive Orders (1996), the president announces

1261-409: A series of video interviews with U.S. combat veterans of conflicts dating to World War I. Former President George H. W. Bush , Senators Bob Dole , Daniel Inouye , Bob Kerrey , and others described how combat changed their lives. The series was broadcast on PBS television stations nationwide. The U.S. Naval Institute holds more than 450,000 images of people, ships and aircraft from all branches of

1358-502: A sophisticated C3I system after the initiation of a course of action. Its disadvantages are inflexibility, a reliance on the shock effect of mass (with a resulting high cost in lives and material), and overall inability to exploit unexpected success or respond to unexpected loss. Chinese military doctrine is currently in a state of flux as the People's Liberation Army is evaluating military trends of relevance to China. Chinese military doctrine

1455-618: A sort of bloody laboratory of military science. Few were bloodier than the fields of the Western Front between 1914 and 1918. The person who probably understood Clausewitz better than most, Marshal Foch , initially participated in events that nearly destroyed the French Army . It is not, however, true to say that military theorists and commanders were suffering from some collective case of stupidity. Their analysis of military history convinced them that decisive and aggressive strategic offensive

1552-451: A whole. Two major systems prevail on the planet today. Broadly speaking, these may be described as the "Western" system, and the "Russian" system. Each system reflects and supports strengths and weakness in the underlying society. Modern Western military art is composed primarily of an amalgam of French, German, British, and American systems. The Russian system borrows from these systems as well, either through study, or personal observation in

1649-607: Is based on strategic, operational, and tactical needs of the national defense policy , the identified threats to the country, and the technological capabilities of the threats and the armed forces. Force structure development is guided by doctrinal considerations of strategic, operational and tactical deployment and employment of formations and units to territories, areas and zones where they are expected to perform their missions and tasks. Force structuring applies to all armed services , but not to their supporting organisations such as those used for defense science research activities. In

1746-566: Is currently influenced by three doctrinal schools which both conflict and complement each other: the People's war, the Regional war, and the Revolution in military affairs that led to substantial increase in the defense spending and rate of technological modernisation of the forces. The differences in the specifics of military art notwithstanding, military science strives to provide an integrated picture of

1843-405: Is in many ways the centerpiece of military science. It studies the specifics of planning for, and engaging in combat, and attempts to reduce the many factors to a set of principles that govern all interactions of the field of battle. In Europe these principles were first defined by Clausewitz in his Principles of War . As such, it directs the planning and execution of battles, operations, and wars as

1940-656: Is influenced by a number of sources including an indigenous classical military tradition characterized by strategists such as Sun Tzu , Western and Soviet influences, as well as indigenous modern strategists such as Mao Zedong . One distinctive characteristic of Chinese military science is that it places emphasis on the relationship between the military and society as well as viewing military force as merely one part of an overarching grand strategy . Each system trains its officer corps in its philosophy regarding military art. The differences in content and emphasis are illustrative. The United States Army principles of war are defined in

2037-455: Is one of the oldest continuously published magazines in the United States. Issues include articles from military professionals and civilian experts, historical essays, book reviews, full-color photography, and reader commentary. Roughly a third are written by active duty and active reserve personnel, a third by retired military, and a third by civilians. Proceedings also frequently carries feature articles by Secretaries of Defense, Secretaries of

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2134-513: Is studied alongside social sciences, including such subjects as humanitarian law . The United States Department of Defense defines military science in terms of specific systems and operational requirements, and include among other areas civil defense and force structure. In the first instance military science is concerned with who will participate in military operations, and what sets of skills and knowledge they will require to do so effectively and somewhat ingeniously. Develops optimal methods for

2231-542: Is surprisingly fluid across countries. In the US, veteran's status is established after a service member has completed a minimum period of service. Australia requires deployment to a combat zone. In the UK "Everyone who has performed military service for at least one day and drawn a day's pay is termed a veteran." The study of veterans focuses much attention on their, sometimes, uneasy transition back to civilian society. "Veterans must navigate

2328-600: Is the daughter of J. Bruce Llewellyn and a family friend of Colin Powell , who originally introduced the couple to each other. They remained together until Clancy's death in October 2013. The two had one daughter. Clancy was a Roman Catholic . The plot of his novel Red Rabbit revolves around John Paul II . In a June 27, 1993, interview with The Washington Post , he was quoted as saying, "I've had [sex scenes] in my books before, but you had to look real fast because, you know, I'm

2425-426: Is the effort expended by Nazi Germany to produce artificial rubbers and fuels to reduce or eliminate their dependence on imported POL (petroleum, oil, and lubricants) and rubber supplies. Military technology is unique only in its application, not in its use of basic scientific and technological achievements. Because of the uniqueness of use, military technological studies strive to incorporate evolutionary, as well as

2522-665: The Ghost Recon , Rainbow Six , The Division , and Splinter Cell series. Since Clancy's death in 2013, the Jack Ryan series has been continued by his family estate through a series of authors. Clancy was born on April 12, 1947, at Franklin Square Hospital in Baltimore , Maryland, and grew up in the Northwood neighborhood in northeast Baltimore. The family was Irish-American. He

2619-477: The Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum . Those included a submarine combat simulation (based on the book) and an action game (based on the film). More recently, Ubisoft has made many video game series based on Tom Clancy's books, or which were endorsed by Clancy and use his name in the series' titles. Military science Military science is the study of military processes, institutions, and behavior, along with

2716-574: The Imperial Russian Army in the Russo-Japanese War . Foch thought that "In strategy as well as in tactics one attacks". In many ways military science was born as a result of the experiences of the Great War. "Military implements" had changed armies beyond recognition with cavalry to virtually disappear in the next 20 years. The "supply of an army" would become a science of logistics in

2813-613: The September 11 attacks , Clancy suggested on The O'Reilly Factor that American left-wing politicians were partly responsible for the failure to prevent the attacks due to their "gutting" of the Central Intelligence Agency . On September 11, 2001, Clancy was interviewed by Judy Woodruff on CNN . During the interview, he noted that orthodox "Islam does not permit suicide ." Among other observations during this interview, Clancy cited discussions he had with military experts on

2910-601: The Soviet–Afghan War was predicated on the ability of the Soviet Union to not only successfully invade Afghanistan, but also to militarily and politically flank the Islamic Republic of Iran simultaneously. How effectively and efficiently militaries accomplish their operations, missions and tasks is closely related not only to the methods they use, but the equipment and weapons they use. Military intelligence supports

3007-575: The combat commanders' decision making process by providing intelligence analysis of available data from a wide range of sources. To provide that informed analysis the commanders information requirements are identified and input to a process of gathering, analysis, protection, and dissemination of information about the operational environment, hostile, friendly and neutral forces and the civilian population in an area of combat operations, and broader area of interest. Intelligence activities are conducted at all levels from tactical to strategic, in peacetime,

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3104-473: The Cuban missile crisis. Subsequently, the strategic and budget situation changed and as a result the active duty military began to rely on reserve force, particularly for combat support and combat service support. Further large-scale military operation, routinely mobilize and deploy reservists Lomsky-Feder et al (2008p. 594) introduced the metaphor of reserve forces as transmigrants who live "betwixt and between

3201-731: The First World War remained largely unaltered from the Napoleonic model, but took into the consideration the vast improvements in the firepower and the ability to conduct "great battles of annihilation" through rapid concentration of force , strategic mobility , and the maintenance of the strategic offensive better known as the Cult of the offensive . The key to this, and other modes of thinking about war, remained analysis of military history and attempts to derive tangible lessons that could be replicated again with equal success on another battlefield as

3298-635: The French video game manufacturer Ubisoft purchased the use of Clancy's name for an undisclosed sum. It has been used in conjunction with video games and related products such as movies and books. Based on his interest in private spaceflight and his US$ 1 million investment in the launch vehicle company Rotary Rocket , Clancy was interviewed in 2007 for the documentary film Orphans of Apollo (2008). A long-time proponent of conservative and Republican views, Clancy dedicated books to American conservative political figures, including Ronald Reagan . A week after

3395-621: The Naval Institute Foundation, Inc., was established to stabilize the organization's funding. In 1999, the Naval Institute transferred its former headquarters, Preble Hall , to the Naval Academy, and renovated a derelict Navy hospital to serve as its new headquarters. The new building was named Beach Hall, after Captain Edward L. Beach Jr. , author and Navy Cross recipient; and his father, Captain Edward L. Beach Sr. , who had served as

3492-471: The Naval Institute Press editor who read through the book, said later that she convinced the publisher: "I think we have a potential best seller here, and if we don't grab this thing, somebody else would." She believed Clancy had an "innate storytelling ability, and his characters had this very witty dialogue". Clancy, who had hoped to sell 5,000 copies, ended up selling over 45,000. After publication,

3589-484: The Naval Institute began to accept papers and publish the proceedings of its discussions, which were distributed to the organization's members. In 1898, the Naval Institute Press was created to publish basic naval guides. The most popular of these, The Bluejacket's Manual , is on its 25th edition, and is still issued to all enlistees of the U.S. Navy. The press eventually expanded to publish more general-interest titles in history, biography, and current affairs. In 1992,

3686-536: The Naval Institute claimed "almost 50,000 members" in 2020, mostly active and retired personnel of the United States Navy , Marine Corps and Coast Guard . The organization also has members in over 90 countries. The organization has no official or funding ties to the United States Naval Academy or the U.S. Navy, though it is based on the grounds of the Naval Academy through permission granted by

3783-585: The Navy, Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and top leaders of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. The magazine has published controversial articles on contentious issues; moreover, military officials have been known to block certain articles from being submitted to the journal. For example, in 1962, the Department of Defense blocked a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel from submitting an article to Proceedings about

3880-627: The Soviet union had been perceived as overly rigid at the tactical level , and had affected the training in the Russian Federation's much reduced forces to instil greater professionalism and initiative in the forces. The military principles of war of the People's Liberation Army were loosely based on those of the Soviet Union until the 1980s when a significant shift begun to be seen in a more regionally-aware, and geographically-specific strategic, operational and tactical thinking in all services. The PLA

3977-401: The U.S. Army Field Manual FM 100–5 . The Canadian Forces principles of war/military science are defined by Land Forces Doctrine and Training System (LFDTS) to focus on principles of command , principles of war , operational art and campaign planning , and scientific principles . Russian Federation armed forces derive their principles of war predominantly from those developed during

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4074-591: The United States an active reservist spends a weekend a month and two weeks a year in training. The size of a county's reserve force often depends on the type of recruitment method. Nations with a volunteer force tend to have a lower reserve percentage. Recently the role of the reserves has changed. In many countries it has gone from a strategic force, largely static, to an operational force, largely dynamic. After WWII, relatively large standing forces took care of most operational needs. Reserves were held back strategically and deployed in times of emergency for example during

4171-435: The United States force structure is guided by the table of organization and equipment (TOE or TO&E). The TOE is a document published by the U.S. Department of Defense which prescribes the organization, manning, and equipage of units from divisional size and down, but also including the headquarters of corps and armies. Force structuring also provides information on the mission and capabilities of specific units, as well as

4268-541: The World and The Naval Institute Guide to Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet are popular reference books with the military, the media, and maritime enthusiasts. USNI News is the Naval Institute's news service. Founded in 2012, USNI News operates from Monday to Friday and primarily focuses on defense-related topics. USNI News heavily covered the Fat Leonard scandal as it developed. In 2007, USNI produced Americans At War ,

4365-526: The academic change, he continued to be an indifferent student spending a majority of his time reading books on military and naval history instead of tending to his studies. Clancy graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature in 1969 receiving a 1.9/4.0 GPA . While at Loyola College, he was president of the chess club. He joined the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps ; however, he

4462-473: The administration and organization of military units, as well as the military as a whole. In addition, this area studies other associated aspects as mobilization/demobilization, and military government for areas recently conquered (or liberated) from enemy control. Force structuring is the method by which personnel and the weapons and equipment they use are organized and trained for military operations, including combat. Development of force structure in any country

4559-660: The apartment. His Chesapeake Bay estate sold for $ 4.9 million in 2020. Clancy died of heart failure on October 1, 2013, at Johns Hopkins Hospital , near his Baltimore home. John D. Gresham, a co-author and researcher with Clancy on several books, said Clancy had been suffering heart problems for some time prior: "Five or six years ago Tom suffered a heart attack and he went through bypass surgery. It wasn't that he had another heart attack, his heart just wore out." The Chicago Tribune quoted Pulitzer Prize –winning film critic and author Stephen Hunter as saying, "When he published The Hunt for Red October , he redefined and expanded

4656-520: The armed forces relies on market forces and careful recruiting to fill its ranks. It is thus, very important to understand factors that motivate enlistment and reenlistment. Service members must have the mental and physical ability to meet the challenges of military service and adapt to the military's values and culture. Studies show that enlistment motivation generally incorporates both self-interest (pay) and non-market values like adventure, patriotism, and comradeship. The study of veterans or members of

4753-528: The armed forces. The photographs date from the American Civil War to the present. The U.S. Naval Institute's oral history program preserves the reminiscences of numerous American military figures, including USAAF General Jimmy Doolittle , Admirals Arleigh Burke and Chester W. Nimitz . The Naval Institute records a series of interviews covering the life story of each participant. The interviews are then transcribed, annotated, indexed, and bound. Since

4850-551: The bibliography article). He also branded several lines of books and video games with his name that are written by other authors, following premises or storylines generally in keeping with Clancy's works. With the release of The Teeth of the Tiger (2003), Clancy introduced Jack Ryan's son and two nephews as main characters; those characters continued in his last four novels, Dead or Alive (2010), Locked On (2011), Threat Vector (2012), and Command Authority (2013). In 2008,

4947-479: The book received praise from President Ronald Reagan, who called the work "the best yarn", subsequently boosting sales to 300,000 hardcover and two million paperback copies of the book, making it a national bestseller. The book was critically praised for its technical accuracy, which led to Clancy meeting several high-ranking officers in the U.S. military, as well as Steve Pieczenik , and to inspiration for recurring characters in his works. Clancy's novels focus on

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5044-494: The chaos of battle, and illuminate basic insights that apply to all combatants, not just those who agree with your formulation of the principles. Military geography encompasses much more than simple protestations to take the high ground. Military geography studies the obvious, the geography of theatres of war, but also the additional characteristics of politics, economics, and other natural features of locations of likely conflict (the political "landscape", for example). As an example,

5141-430: The civilian and military worlds". This metaphor captures "their structural duality" and suggests dynamic nature of reservist experience as they navigate commitments to their often conflicting civilian and military worlds. Given their greater likelihood of lengthy deployment, reservists face many of the same stresses as active duty but often with fewer support services. Naval Institute Press Established in 1873,

5238-616: The cover of dozens of books. Seventeen of his novels made it to the top of the New York Times best seller list . He co-authored memoirs of top generals, and produced numerous guided tours of the elite aspects of the American military. Andrew Bacevich states: Clancy did for military pop-lit what Starbucks did for the preparation of caffeinated beverages: he launched a sprawling, massively profitable industrial enterprise that simultaneously serves and cultivates an insatiable consumer base. Whether

5335-462: The elements of military science in all ages; but improvement in weapons and accoutrements appears to lead and control all the rest. The breakthrough of sorts made by Clausewitz in suggesting eight principles on which such methods can be based, in Europe, for the first time presented an opportunity to largely remove the element of chance and error from command decision making process. At this time emphasis

5432-580: The existence of the Soviet Union. These, although based significantly on the Second World War experience in conventional war fighting, have been substantially modified since the introduction of the nuclear arms into strategic considerations. The Soviet–Afghan War and the First and Second Chechen Wars further modified the principles that Soviet theorists had divided into the operational art and tactics. The very scientific approach to military science thinking in

5529-427: The first time, forcing military commanders to think not only in terms of rank and file, but force structure . Tactics changed, too, with infantry for the first time segregated from the horse-mounted troops, and required to cooperate with tanks , aircraft and new artillery tactics. Perception of military discipline , too, had changed. Morale, despite strict disciplinarian attitudes, had cracked in all armies during

5626-441: The form of invasion ( Napoleon's War of 1812 , and The Great Patriotic War ), and form a unique product suited for the conditions practitioners of this system will encounter. The system that is produced by the analysis provided by military art is known as doctrine. Western military doctrine relies heavily on technology, the use of a well-trained and empowered NCO cadre, and superior information processing and dissemination to provide

5723-519: The genre, and as a consequence of that, many people were able to publish such books who had previously been unable to do so." On March 31, 2014, the Orioles honored Clancy with a video tribute during their home opener, and the team wore a tribute patch on their jerseys through the season. Officially licensed games based on The Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising were released in the late 1980s and early 1990s for various 8-bit home computers such as

5820-518: The gunpowder weapons into the equation of warfare only added to the veritable arcana of building fortifications as it seemed to the average individual. Until the early 19th century, one observer, a British veteran of the Napoleonic Wars , Major John Mitchell, thought that it seemed nothing much had changed from the application of force on a battlefield since the days of the Greeks. He suggested that this

5917-494: The hero, most notably Jack Ryan and John Clark , both Irish Catholics like himself. He repeatedly uses the formula whereby the heroes are "highly skilled, disciplined, honest, thoroughly professional, and only lose their cool when incompetent politicians or bureaucrats get in their way. Their unambiguous triumphs over evil provide symbolic relief from the legacy of the Vietnam War ." The Cold War epic Red Storm Rising (1986)

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6014-448: The individual's and group psychology and suggested detailed analysis of this. This set in motion the eventual fascination of the military organisations with application of quantitative and qualitative research to their theories of combat; the attempt to translate military thinking as philosophic concepts into concrete methods of combat. Military implements, the supply of an army, its organization, tactics, and discipline, have constituted

6111-446: The institute's secretary-treasurer. On 30 September 2021, the U.S. Naval Institute opened a conference center with a 406-seat auditorium, reception spaces, an indoor/outdoor rooftop terrace, five meeting rooms, and a broadcast studio. It is named for Jack C. Taylor , a decorated World War II U.S. Navy fighter pilot who founded Enterprise Rent-A-Car . Proceedings is the Naval Institute's monthly magazine. Published since 1874, it

6208-484: The insurance agency from his wife's grandmother and wrote novels in his spare time. While working at the insurance agency, he wrote his debut novel, The Hunt for Red October (1984). Clancy's literary career began in 1982 when he started writing The Hunt for Red October , which in 1984 he sold for publishing to the Naval Institute Press for $ 5,000. The publisher was impressed with the work; Deborah Grosvenor,

6305-415: The interest of the state, do not act" ). The contemporary multi and interdisciplinary field traces its origin to World War II and works by sociologists and political scientists. This field of study includes "all aspects of relations between armed forces, as a political, social and economic institution, and the society, state or political ethnic movement of which they are a part". Topics often included within

6402-637: The item consumed provides much in terms of nourishment is utterly beside the point. That it tastes yummy going down more than suffices to keep customers coming back. By 1988, Clancy had earned $ 1.3 million for The Hunt for Red October and had signed a $ 3 million contract for his next three books. In 1992, he sold North American rights to Without Remorse for $ 14 million, a record for a single book. By 1997, Penguin Putnam Inc. (part of Pearson Education ) paid Clancy $ 50 million for world rights to two new books and another $ 25 million to Red Storm Entertainment for

6499-553: The lack of planning to deal with a hijacked plane being used in a suicide attack and criticized the news media's treatment of the United States Intelligence Community . Clancy appeared again on PBS 's Charlie Rose , to discuss the implications of the day's events with Richard Holbrooke , New York Times journalist Judith Miller , and Senator John Edwards , among others. Clancy was interviewed on those shows because his book Debt of Honor (1994) included

6596-509: The likelihood and favorable outcomes of victory in peace or during a war. Military scientists include theorists, researchers, experimental scientists, applied scientists, designers, engineers, test technicians, and other military personnel . Military personnel obtain weapons , equipment , and training to achieve specific strategic goals . Military science is also used to establish enemy capability as part of technical intelligence . In military history, military science had been used during

6693-518: The medical sciences. In part this was due to the general mystique that accompanied education in a world where, as late as the 1880s, 75% of the European population was illiterate. The ability by the officers to make complex calculations required for the equally complex "evolutions" of the troop movements in linear warfare that increasingly dominated the Renaissance and later history, and the introduction of

6790-534: The military who leave and return to the society is one of the most important subfields of the military and society field of study. Veterans and their issues represent a microcosm of the field. Military recruits represent inputs that flow from the community into the armed forces, veterans are outputs that leave the military and reenter society changed by their time as soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen. Both society and veteran face multiple layers of adaptation and adjustment upon their reentry. The definition of veteran

6887-522: The movement, evacuation, and hospitalization of personnel; the acquisition or construction, maintenance, operation, and disposition of facilities; and the acquisition or furnishing of services. Military technology is not just the study of various technologies and applicable physical sciences used to increase military power. It may also extend to the study of production methods of military equipment, and ways to improve performance and reduce material and/or technological requirements for its production. An example

6984-526: The officer leadership training and basic information about employment of military theories, concepts, methods and systems, and graduates are not military scientists on completion of studies, but rather junior military officers . Even until the Second World War, military science was written in English starting with capital letters, and was thought of as an academic discipline alongside physics, philosophy and

7081-631: The package to $ 97 million. In 1993, Clancy joined a group of investors that included Peter Angelos , and bought the Baltimore Orioles from Eli Jacobs . In 1998, he tentatively reached an agreement to purchase the Minnesota Vikings , but had to abandon the deal because of a divorce settlement cost. The first NetForce novel, titled Net Force (1999), was adapted as a 1999 TV movie starring Scott Bakula and Joanna Going . The first Op-Center novel ( Tom Clancy's Op-Center published in 1995)

7178-449: The period of Industrial Revolution as a general term to refer to all matters of military theory and technology application as a single academic discipline , including that of the deployment and employment of troops in peacetime or in battle. In military education , military science is often the name of the department in the education institution that administers officer candidate education . However, this education usually focuses on

7275-525: The period of transition to war, and during the war. Most militaries maintain a military intelligence capability to provide analytical and information collection personnel in both specialist units and from other arms and services. Personnel selected for intelligence duties, whether specialist intelligence officers and enlisted soldiers or non-specialist assigned to intelligence may be selected for their analytical abilities and intelligence before receiving formal training. Military intelligence serves to identify

7372-560: The political process. For example, how do veterans vote and establish party affiliation? During the 2004 presidential election veterans were basically bipartisan. Veterans who fought in Croatia's war of independence voted for the nationalist parties in greater numbers. Reserve forces are service members who serve the armed forces on a part-time basis. These men and women constitute a "reserve" force that countries rely on for their defense, disaster support, and some day-to-day operations etc. In

7469-800: The predominant national security values of the Reagan era." Clancy's first wife, Wanda Thomas King, was a nurse. They married in 1969 and had four children. The couple separated briefly in 1995, and they permanently separated in December 1996. Wanda Clancy filed for divorce in November 1997, which became final in January 1999. As part of the divorce, she and Clancy split his minority stake in the Baltimore Orioles. On June 26, 1999, Clancy married freelance journalist Alexandra Marie Llewellyn, whom he had met in 1997. Llewellyn

7566-653: The processes of science of testing and experimentation, the scientific method , and forever "wed" to the idea of the superiority of technology on the battlefield. Currently military science still means many things to different organisations. In the United Kingdom and much of the European Union the approach is to relate it closely to the civilian application and understanding. For example, in Belgium's Royal Military Academy , military science remains an academic discipline, and

7663-443: The purview of military and society include: veterans, women in the military, military families, enlistment and retention, reserve forces, military and religion, military privatization, civil-military relations , civil-military cooperation, military and popular culture, military and the media, military and disaster assistance, military and the environment and the blurring of military and police functions. In an all-volunteer military,

7760-438: The rare revolutionary technologies, into their proper place of military application. This speciality examines the ways that military and society interact and shape each other. The dynamic intersection where military and society meet is influenced by trends in society and the security environment. This field of study can be linked to works by Clausewitz ("War is the continuation of politics by other means" ) and Sun Tzu ("If not in

7857-411: The regular and reserve organizations. Military training, especially for officers, also concerns itself with general education and political indoctrination of the armed forces. Much of capability development depends on the concepts which guide use of the armed forces and their weapons and equipment, and the methods employed in any given theatre of war or combat environment. Military activity has been

7954-420: The study of history, the military seeks to avoid past mistakes, and improve upon its current performance by instilling an ability in commanders to perceive historical parallels during battle, so as to capitalize on the lessons learned. The main areas military history includes are the history of wars, battles, and combats, history of the military art, and history of each specific military service. Military strategy

8051-465: The study of warfare, and the theory and application of organized coercive force. It is mainly focused on theory , method, and practice of producing military capability in a manner consistent with national defense policy . Military science serves to identify the strategic , political , economic , psychological , social , operational , technological , and tactical elements necessary to sustain relative advantage of military force ; and to increase

8148-420: The threat, and provide information on understanding best methods and weapons to use in deterring or defeating it. The art and science of planning and carrying out the movement and maintenance of military forces. In its most comprehensive sense, it is those aspects or military operations that deal with the design, development, acquisition, storage, distribution, maintenance, evacuation, and disposition of material;

8245-650: The unit's current status in terms of posture and readiness. A general TOE is applicable to a type of unit (for instance, infantry) rather than a specific unit (the 3rd Infantry Division). In this way, all units of the same branch (such as infantry) follow the same structural guidelines which allows for more efficient financing, training, and employment of like units operationally. Studies the methodology and practices involved in training soldiers, NCOs (non-commissioned officers, i.e. sergeants and corporals), and officers. It also extends this to training small and large units, both individually and in concert with one another for both

8342-404: The wake of massive armies, operations and troops that could fire ammunition faster than it could be produced, for the first time using vehicles that used the combustion engine , a watershed of change. Military "organisation" would no longer be that of the linear warfare, but assault teams, and battalions that were becoming multi-skilled with the introduction of machine guns and mortars and, for

8439-561: The war, but the best-performing troops were found to be those where emphasis on discipline had been replaced with display of personal initiative and group cohesiveness such as that found in the Australian Corps during the Hundred Days Offensive . The military sciences' analysis of military history that had failed European commanders was about to give way to a new military science, less conspicuous in appearance, but more aligned to

8536-660: Was a part-owner of his hometown Major League Baseball team, the Baltimore Orioles , and vice-chairman of their community activities and public affairs committees. Originally an insurance agent , Clancy launched his literary career in 1984 when he sold his first military thriller novel The Hunt for Red October for $ 5,000 published by the small academic Naval Institute Press of Annapolis, Maryland . His works The Hunt for Red October (1984), Patriot Games (1987), Clear and Present Danger (1989), and The Sum of All Fears (1991) have been turned into commercially successful films. Tom Clancy's works also inspired games such as

8633-418: Was co-written (according to Clancy in the book's foreword) with fellow military-oriented author Larry Bond . The book was published by Putnam and sold almost a million copies within its first year. Clancy became the cornerstone of a publishing list by Putnam which emphasized authors like Clancy who would produce annually. His publisher, Phyllis E. Grann , called these "repeaters." Clancy has author status on

8730-584: Was founded in 1898 and publishes about 80 books a year. Its twice-yearly catalog includes works on history, biography, professional military education, and occasional works of popular fiction, such as Tom Clancy 's first novel, The Hunt for Red October and Stephen Coonts ' Flight of the Intruder . Its professional titles include The Bluejacket's Manual , Naval Shiphandling , The Naval Officer's Guide , The Marine Officer’s Guide , and The Coast Guardsman’s Manual . The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of

8827-506: Was ineligible to serve due to his myopia (nearsightedness) , which required him to wear thick eyeglasses. After graduating, Clancy earned certifications in business and insurance and worked for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut . In 1973, Clancy joined the O. F. Bowen Agency, a small insurance agency based in Owings, Maryland , founded by his wife's grandfather. In 1980, he purchased

8924-403: Was made on the topography (including trigonometry ), military art (military science) , military history , organisation of the army in the field, artillery and the science of projectiles , field fortifications and permanent fortifications , military legislation , military administration and manoeuvres. The military science on which the model of German combat operations was built for

9021-677: Was once a summer camp, is located in Calvert County, Maryland . It has a panoramic view of the Chesapeake Bay . The stone mansion, which cost $ 2 million, has 24 rooms and features a shooting range in the basement. The property also features a World War II –era M4 Sherman tank , a Christmas gift from his first wife. Clancy also purchased a 17,000-square-foot penthouse condominium in the Ritz-Carlton , in Baltimore's Inner Harbor , for $ 16 million. Clancy and his wife combined four units to create

9118-523: Was primarily so because as Clausewitz suggested, "unlike in any other science or art, in war the object reacts". Until this time, and even after the Franco-Prussian War , military science continued to be divided between the formal thinking of officers brought up in the "shadow" of the Napoleonic Wars and younger officers like Ardant du Picq who tended to view fighting performance as rooted in

9215-426: Was released to coincide with a 1995 NBC television miniseries of the same name starring Harry Hamlin and a cast of stars. Though the miniseries did not continue, the book series did, but later had little in common with the first TV miniseries other than the title and the names of the main characters. Clancy wrote several nonfiction books about various branches of the U.S. Armed Forces (see nonfiction listing , in

9312-407: Was the only doctrine of victory , and feared that overemphasis of firepower, and the resultant dependence on entrenchment would make this all but impossible, and leading to the battlefield stagnant in advantages of the defensive position, destroying troop morale and willingness to fight. Because only the offensive could bring victory, lack of it, and not the firepower, was blamed for the defeat of

9409-572: Was the second of three children to Thomas Leo Clancy (1918–1995), who worked for the United States Postal Service , and Catherine Mary Clancy ( née Langan; 1918–2001), who worked in a store's credit department. He was a member of Troop 624 of the Boy Scouts of America . Clancy's siblings are Patrick and Margaret. Clancy's mother worked to send him to Loyola High School in Towson, Maryland ,

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