The Big One: Difference between revisions

* [[Shown Their Work]]: [http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/default2_bioSS.htm Stuart Slade] is a professional military analyst and this shows in that he really knows his military equipment and how it gets used. He also knows what doesn't work and why. In reading the novels, some of the performance and technical details sometimes sound contrived or exaggerated but original source material shows his comments and judgement to be accurate. The history and development of the political entities in the books are plausible given the context in which they are taking place.

* [[Subverted Trope]]: Multiple examples throughout the six published stories and the initial drafts posted on the internet. A Typical example is [[Middle-Eastern Coalition|The Caliphate]] which, despite being based on captured Taliban and al Qaeda policy and strategy documents and having its ruling system modelled on the Gulf Cooperation Council (which actually works despite containing members that should be at daggers drawn) is shown to be an unworkable and impractical concept that collapses in less than two decades and is replaced by a much more moderate political entity.

* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: Subverted utterly.

* [[Tokyo Rose]]: A British collaborator one, at that.