{"id":10266,"date":"2023-06-04T04:54:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T09:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=10266"},"modified":"2023-06-04T04:54:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T09:54:48","slug":"world-war-iii-fanfiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2023\/06\/04\/world-war-iii-fanfiction\/","title":{"rendered":"World War III fanfiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIf, like me, you were obsessed with Tom Clancy&#8217;s <cite>Red Storm Rising<\/cite> as a child growing up during the late Cold War, then <a href=\"https:\/\/ww31987.wordpress.com\/\">Third World War 1987<\/a> is the site for you:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ww31987.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/30\/welcome-to-third-world-war-1987\/\">I intend to take a multifaceted approach with this blog<\/a>. Primarily, I want to construct a detailed narrative, and timeline centered on a US\/NATO-Soviet Union\/Warsaw Pact conflict set in 1987. Attached to that will be a comprehensive account of the global military picture as it was in 1987.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nOf course it lacks some of the frisson of Clancy&#8217;s original, as a superpower confrontation like this is now firmly in the realms of alternative history rather than a plausible what-if, but it&#8217;s still an earnest, in-depth look at what could&#8217;ve been. The actual story starts with <a href=\"https:\/\/ww31987.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/09\/april-18-1987\/\">an NBC news broadcast on April 18, 1987<\/a> and you can continue it by clicking on the next post link at the bottom of the page. It&#8217;s a bit awkward to navigate as the links are listed below the comments, while related posts show up above it. That minor quibble aside, this is an enjoyable read if you&#8217;re a bit of a grognard. World War III fanfic, if you like.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs for how likely such a conflict was during those last years of the Cold War, <a href=\"https:\/\/nsarchive2.gwu.edu\/nukevault\/ebb285\/ZB-79.pdf\">MILITARY PLANNING FOR EUROPEAN THEATRE CONFLICT DURING THE COLD WAR AN ORAL HISTORY ROUNDTABLE STOCKHOLM, 24\u2013 25 APRIL 2006<\/a> (PDF) is essential. Basically a gathering of various NATO and Warsaw Pact military commanders reminiscing about the Cold War, reading it makes clear nobody took the idea of a war actually breaking out between the two seriously at the time. Reading through the testimonies it&#8217;s clear that they all took the idea of war seriously and endlessly prepared for it, but never expected it to really happen, as it didn&#8217;t. Reassuring to read, even retrospectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If, like me, you were obsessed with Tom Clancy&#8217;s Red Storm Rising as a child growing up during the late Cold War, then Third World War 1987 is the site for you: I intend to take a multifaceted approach with this blog. Primarily, I want to construct a detailed narrative, and timeline centered on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[305,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekdom","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10267,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions\/10267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}