Tom Clancy, RIP

The father of a whole new genre of books - technothrillers - Tom Clancy died yesterday at age 66. He described not only the dazzling new military hardware, but the technical competence and character of the American military that were using it. The world realized what he was talking about was real in 1991 during Gulf War I when the American military machine dismantled Saddam's Soviet-supplied and trained minions in short order. 
I enjoyed his books. He will be missed. RIP.