If you want a quick and dirty story about modern warfare that gets the technical parts right, find a copy of this book. Unlike Team Yankee, which only dealt with the given conflict at the company level, Sword Point shows Coyle discussing the conflict as a whole. Sword Point's strength is in chronicling the fighting of this war that never happened. Most likely, he was too eager to get to the war itself to be bogged down with exposition, or causation in general. That might explain why Coyle never explains in the book why the hell the USSR is invading Iran to begin with. Given that Coyle admitted to setting Team Yankee inside of another book, namely The Third World War, August 1985, Sword Point gave me the feeling that Coyle read Red Storm Rising and decided to write a book about the invasion of Iran the Soviet's had planned in that book. Apparently, the Soviets wanted to take Iran's oil fields.

The story pits the US and USSR in a war in Iran.

In the not-too-distant future, the Soviet Union invades Iran, and the United States hastily deploys. Coyle's prose is often clumsy, the chapter-head quotes (from Napoleon, Sherman et al.) are as pertinent as fortune cookies and the ending manages to be sentimental and ungrammatical at the same time.The second book by Harold Coyle after Team Yankee. Buy a cheap copy of Sword Point book by Harold Coyle. Sword Point Mass Market Paperback Augby Harold Coyle (Author) 81 ratings Hardcover 12.46 98 Used from 1.46 19 New from 11.95 9 Collectible from 10.00 Paperback 25.99 9 Used from 14.20 15 New from 21.80 Mass Market Paperback 7.28 55 Used from 1.48 1 New from 35.96 6 Collectible from 9. And confusion arrives with the authentic alphabet soup: lots of info about MRRs, RDEs, BDUs, etc. Army, Russkaia osvoboditelnaia armiia, World War III, United States. Interest is not sustained by the book's undeniable authenticity, which has all the style of a training manual. Sword Point by Coyle, Harold, 1952- Publication date 1989 Topics United States. But all the characters are paper-thin and all sound equally earnest and boring. The narrative consists mainly of set pieces on back-and-forth desert fighting, flashing from one side to another and featuring some continuing characters. There is a little suspense about whether Iran, fighting both ''satans,'' will detonate an atomic bomb, and somewhat less about whether the U.S.S.R.

''places its trust in the ability of the individual soldier and his leaders.'' We are not surprised, therefore, when his thriller picks the winner of a two-month war between the superpowers in Iran. Army officer Coyle ( Team Yankee ) says that the Red Army treasures ''conformity and discipline'' while the U.S.

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