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* [[A Nuclear Error]]: Averted; Clancy's discussion of the political conditions surrounding the deployment of nuclear weapons is very accurate.
* [[Apocalypse How]]: In ''Rainbow Six'', a genetically engineered strain of the Ebola virus is designed intentionally to wipe out 99% of humanity, save for a [[Animal Wrongs Group|"chosen few"]].
* [[Useful Notes/Arab
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Several minor characters later get their own books (John Clark, nee Kelly, and ''Without Remorse'') or become far more important later on (Robby Jackson, a very minor background character in one scene in ''The Hunt for Red October'', later is revealed to be an old friend of Jack Ryan).
* [[Asian Store Owner]]: Mrs. Zimmer.
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** ''Without Remorse'' features a young Jack Ryan talking with his dad about joining the Marines after getting his degree to help pay off his tuition. Of course, we all know how that ends.
** ''Red Rabbit'' contains a few of these. Most notably, when discussing the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, one of Ryan's coworkers notes that the Afghans are helpless in the face of Soviet helicopters unless an equalizer is brought into play, like the newly-developed Stinger missile. Much like the ones that the Archer wields in ''Cardinal of the Kremlin''...
* [[Canada, Eh?]]:
** Puts in a brief appearance in ''Rainbow Six'' as the RCMP who pick up the would-be Basque terrorists who tried to hijack the plane that Clark and Chavez happen to be on, but otherwise ignored.
** The Japanese pilot who {{spoiler|kamikazes his 747 into the US Capitol Building}} in ''Debt of Honor'' took off from Vancouver, and in ''Executive Orders'' the RCMP aid in the investigation.
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** Robby Jackson has a tendency to handle his car with the same... panache, you might say, as he does his F-14.
* [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]]: {{spoiler|Robby Jackson}}, between ''The Bear and the Dragon'' and ''Teeth of the Tiger''.
* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: The justification for the plot of ''Clear And Present Danger''. Subverted when the methods the government uses to attack the drug trade are shown as [[What the Hell, Hero?|clearly worse]] than the trade itself. Played straight, however, in ''Without Remorse'', although the drug dealers in question were also engaged in prostitution and a number of other nasty things. Played straight when Ryan asks for a Presidential pardon for Clark and as soon as he mentions that the people Clark murdered were drug dealers, it's a slam dunk.
* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Occasionally invoked by government officials regarding their bodyguards/SPOs. They (and the Marines) are usually characterized as "knuckle draggers," though in the case of the Secret Service, most if not all of them have at least a college degree and, in the case of Andrea Price, a Masters.
* [[Eagle Land]]: The first flavour, although both versions are [[Discussed Trope|discussed]] frequently. More specifically, Clancy generally differentiates between the types, generally casting the 'good guys' as Type 1, and Type 2s are generally frowned upon, to say the least.
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* [[Mythology Gag]]: A minor one. In the beginning of ''Debt of Honor'', Ron Jones quips to his former CO, now-Rear Admiral Bart Mancuso, that ''USS Chicago'' is currently in the Arctic Ocean tracking whales. In ''[[Red Storm Rising]]'', ''Chicago'' was the boat commanded by Mancuso's [[Expy]] Dan McCafferty, who at one point asks his sonarman to report some anomalous contacts as they are traversing the Arctic Ocean on their way to conduct attacks on Soviet air bases... which turn out to be whales.
* [[The New Russia]]
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: In ''Executive Orders'', the Mountain Men subplot involves some domestic terrorists intent on exploding a truck bomb at the White House. Iran's biowarfare attack, however, causes a travel lockdown that {{spoiler|keeps them penned up at a motel long enough for them to get caught}}. It may come across as a [[Shaggy Dog Story]] but the moral is that evil sometimes defeats itself. There's some [[Irony]] here as well, in that Daryaei himself laments near the beginning that if only all of these plotters would ''coordinate'' with each other, they'd be more successful.
* [[No Party Given]]: Trent and Fellows's parties are not explicitly named, even though it's quite obvious that Trent is a liberal and Fellows is a conservative. Ditto for Fowler and Durling, who belong to the same party as Fellows.
* [[Not With the Safety On You Won't]]: A subversion at the end of ''Patriot Games''. Ryan is all set to shoot a terrorist in cold blood, but the gun doesn't fire. It turns out that a marine safety instructor lowered the hammer earlier, and Ryan "forgot" to cock the weapon before firing. The reader (and Ryan himself) is left uncertain whether or not it was deliberate, but the point is that Ryan manages to leave the scene with a clean conscience. "I'm not a murderer."
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* [[The Plot Reaper]]: How a certain [[Author Stand In]] {{spoiler|gets to be President at the end of ''Debt of Honor''}}.
* [[Prequel]]: ''Without Remorse'' and ''Patriot Games''. ''Patriot Games'' was published after ''The Hunt For Red October,'' which mentions Ryan's heroics at the beginning of that book in passing. It also includes in throwaway dialogue the insider trading deal that Ryan is investigated for in ''The Cardinal of the Kremlin'' {{spoiler|to get the Russians to try and turn him}}, and used as part of a smear campaign against him in ''The Sum of All Fears.''
* [[The
* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: ''The Cardinal of the Kremlin'' features a American female rocket scientist who essentially hands her male co-worker over to [[Moscow Centre|the KGB]] in order to (clumsily) attempt to [[Comforting the Widow|seduce the guy's fiancee]].
* [[Red Scare]]
* [[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun]]: Done with both Clark and Ryan (and to a lesser extent, Ding Chavez). For Ryan, few will ever pass up the opportunity to remark upon the time he dealt with the ULA invasion of his home in ''Patriot Games''. Clark's list is rather longer, ranging from {{spoiler|picking up KGB Chairman Gerasimov's family in ''Cardinal of the Kremlin'', to rescuing former Japanese Prime Minister Koga in ''Debt of Honor'', to guiding the bombs to kill Ayatollah Daryaei in ''Executive Orders''}}.
* [[Reporting Names]]
* [[Reset Button]]: This appears to have been pushed, as noted above in the [[Useful Notes/Arab
* [[Rich Bitch]]:
** Elizabeth Elliot in ''The Sum of All Fears''.
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* [[Western Terrorists]]: The Warrior Society in ''The Sum of all Fears'', and the Mountain Men in ''Executive Orders''. Alex Dobbens's group also plays a role in helping the ULA attack Ryan's home in ''Patriot Games''.
* [[Wham Episode]]: The final chapter of ''Debt of Honor'', {{spoiler|which ends with a 747 being kamikazed into the Capitol Building. This became [[Harsher in Hindsight]] after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S.}}
* [[Why
* [[Wish Fulfillment]]: When {{spoiler|almost all of Congress is killed at the end of ''Debt of Honor''}}, they are replaced by ordinary Americans who just want to get things done.
* [[Yellow Peril]]: Tom Clancy loves this:
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