A number of these had clear aspects of the war-with-Russia theme without being full-blown military novels. To be precise, Greaney collaborated with Clancy on his last three novels, and then wrote a further four solo. He is also the standout of those several authors who have taken over Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan and Jack Ryan Junior series since the passing of Clancy himself.
Mark Greaney is the creator of the bestselling (but not Russia-related) ‘Gray Man’ series. As a novelist, Greaney has one significant and obvious advantage over Shirreff namely, the fact that he is a novelist. Ripley Rawlings IV) is another example of the more recent outings for the war-with-Russia genre. Its title was amended as 2017 came and went without such a war. General Sir Richard Shirreff’s excessively alarmist 2017 War with Russia: An Urgent Warning from Senior Military Command (2016) is one such example. The re-emergence in the second decade of the 21 st century of these war-with-Russia novels is an indicator of the resurgence of Russia on the global stage, and of the rapid decline in relations between Russia and the United States, the United Kingdom, and, to differing degrees, various other Western powers. Red Metal, published three decades later, gives an updated and original take on the war-with-Russia concept. Russia in Fiction has reviewed one of the betters ones, Red Army by Ralph Peters (1989). To make them more than simply glorified campaign manuals, human interest would be added by naming individual soldiers, sketching out their characters and home lives, and following them into battle. To generalise with some degree of assurance, their plots consisted of carefully worked out military campaigns of the war-gaming variety, drawing on the detailed plans that NATO and the Warsaw Pact had developed for such eventualities. Authors such as Tom Clancy, Ralph Peters, Dennis Jones, Larry Bond, Ian Slater, and General Sir John Hackett all produced one or more examples of military scenario fiction, usually written as a sort of alternative history.
War-with-Russia novels were legion in the 1980s.
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