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Why to much background. Almost quit reading several times. Is this really the same author of the flight of the old dog????

I write this review having not made it through the book. It felt like nothing was happening, all background to what was going to happen. I didn't get that far. I will try again, and maybe up my rating. But let's get things happening faster, Dale!

I usually like Dale's writings, but am having difficulty with this one.

A fantasy. But it was entertaining. Some parallels to our current administration. Mr Broiwn writes about the FB111 in a fictional story. I was and is a flying piece of junk.

A typical Dale Brown thriller. My only complaint with him is that he gets into some very sophisticated weaponry which I have no idea about. It gets a little overdone.

A whole lot of detail not to my liking. The action scenes are very good. Gives a good idea of what really goes on in a fighter bomber. The president as a person is weak, for a president, a bit unrealistic. Too many new names, too many different missiles. I got very confused and eventually skipped all those paragraphs.

Tom Clancy has been overwhelmed by Brown in this tale with complicated military designations and plot. Who' son first and please someone give me an index of all the acronyms Brown used. I'm exhausted. Interesting plot. President reminds me of Obama and the First Lady is a conniving bitch.

always good reading

Slow start or would have rated it higher.

As a US Air Force Captain with experience of flying B-52s and FB111 fighter-bombers, Dale Brown is considered an authority on everything connected with air warfare.

But, as I read `Chains of Command', I found myself sympathising with the refusal of the American President (and First Lady) to accept a standard National Military Command Center Situation Report: the amount of abbreviations and acronyms they contain "would throw these Ivy League grads into a royal tizzy". Despite that excellent advice, Dale Brown insists on including page after page of jargon that, to the average reader, must be meaningless. For example:

"He set the right side MFD to the NAV Present Position page, checked that the update mode was in RADAR, then pressed the ENTER FIX Option Select Switch. The reverse video on the ENT FIX legend went out, and the FIXMAG readouts went to zero, indicating a successful position update. Mace switched his right side MFD from the Present Position page to the SRAM Air page and placed the Bomb Data page on the left MFD."

Got it?

If you can brush aside this gobbledygook, you'll probably enjoy finding yourself strapped into the cockpit alongside the pilot, fighting G-forces as the air-to-air combat around you goes haywire. Despite that plus point, the storyline (to say nothing of that so-called chain of command) is disjointed whilst, with one possible exception, the characters are poorly developed and lack believability.

Overall credibility - OK, not Dale Brown's fault - isn't helped by the fact that `Chains of Command' (written in 1993, set in 1995 and reviewed in 2015) deals with an attempt by a fictitious Russian president to annex the Ukraine and restore the territorial integrity of the old USSR.

Fortunately, when the very real President Putin had similar ideas in early 2014, he avoided the use of low yield atomic weapons.

I couldn't really get into this book at all.

Awful. Not close to credible. Aircraft performance descriptions wholly inaccurate. Simply stinks. Don't waste money on this tripe. Beyond bad!

A real disappointment from the other Dale Brown books. Story line was full of holes, hackneyed and generally unbelievable. This novel can be skipped.

There was the usual excellent techno military thriller and then some sophomoric attempt at right wing politics. Disappointing overall from an established writer.

If you're going to write a book about Europe from the US, at least go on Google maps and work out where the countries are. Embarrassing.

Good read. Not sure all the details of the plane is nessessary Takes a lot of book space,will read more

Interesting concept, parts of whic are going on today.
A bit too technical with too many military acronyms.
Demonstrates good technical knowledge but the story could be told with fewer references.

I stopped reading the book and removed it from my device. Brown took a prick, wanna be bad boy, and let him win over the heroine, and had him backed up by a superior officer that was supposedly interested in having a battle ready unit! I say BS on that! I can see too much of that kind of crap in the DC political news to PAY for it in the form of supposedly novel reading. There won't be anymore Dale Brown books in my future.

too technical, too much cockpit stuff

Book too technical for any person to read. Needs to be LESS descriptive of readers military planes etc. And also LESS talking about himself as he had to do a 'SELFEI' about himself. Called being conceited!

The US would do better with B2s & F117s.