Executive Orders Summary
Tom Clancy

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Executive Orders Summary

Clancy does not take a sanguine view of America's place in the modern world.

For the second novel in a row, he argues that America has been weakened by cutbacks in its military and espionage budgets; in both novels the American government is unable to protect American citizens on American soil. In Debt of Honor, America's military is spread too thin to rebuff the combined military threats of Japan, India, and China; in...

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