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* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: while the fact that the Soviets are out of fuel is the ''casus belli'', it quickly fades into the background once the shooting starts--until American Intelligence makes a spectacularly lucky catch with {{spoiler|Major Chapayev}}, the son of a Politburo member. Then the Americans make sure that the fuel shortage returns to haunt the Soviets with a vengeance.
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Be honest; you thought {{spoiler|the Airborne Captain at the memorial service}} was just [[Living Prop|background colour]], didn't you? Well, so did [[Hoist By His Own Petard|Director Kosov]].
* [[Colonel Badass]] - the [[One
** The also unnamed KGB Colonel who sets the Kremlin bomb. He turns up in a later scene after killing ''every guard on the same floor of the Kremlin building as him''.
* [[Cool Boat]] - The portrayal of the ''USS Reuben James'' and the ''USS Chicago'' are pretty damn awesome.
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** And happens again after that particular attack, the Russians note that, "We can't make that kind of mistake very often and expect to succeed." and Mackall says, "We can't survive much more of what the Russians are throwing at us."
* [[It Got Worse]]: ''Red Storm Rising'' is an escalating series of these for NATO before they manage to turn the tide.
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* [[Its Raining Men]] - Royal Marine commandos parachute onto Iceland to assist Edwards. It doesn't go well: crosswinds, rocks, and parachutes don't mix.
* [[Little Hero Big War]] - Every character. It's [[World War Three]], after all. Special mention goes to US Air Force Lt. Mike Edwards, a meteorologist who escapes the [[Macross Missile Massacre]] of his air base at Keflavik, Iceland. After escaping, he leads a ragtag band of Marines across the island, directed by [[Mission Control]] on his handily acquired satellite radio to scout out Russian troop movements and assist in making sure the landing zone for a beachhead is relatively unguarded.
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* [[We Are Not the Wehrmacht]] - Most of the land war takes place in Germany, and the German armed forces appropriately feature heavily.
* [[We Could Have Avoided All This]]: When the oil crisis is revealed near the novel's end, an American laments that the whole war could have been avoided if the Soviet had just ''asked'' for help as the West would have been happy to give aid. Which is a bit idealistic, given that this is the Cold War. Aside from revealing their own weakness to their mortal enemies, the Soviet leadership expected that oil aid to come with major strings attached.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]] - One of the Marines protests when Edwards is about to summarily execute their Russian prisoners. However, he and everyone else quickly accepts that they wouldn't have been able to take the Russians with them anyway and there was no way they could leave living witnesses.
* [[World War Three]]
* [[Yanks With Tanks]] - All four major branches of the US military are involved in the war.
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