Shashank Joshi

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307 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 22 Jul

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Pulp fiction v the classics: summer reading · 25 May 2026 podcast

In fact, when Tom Clancy, the author, met the Navy Secretary under the Reagan administration, he was asked, how did you get so much classified information?

And of course, it wasn't classified.

It was all just painstakingly pieced together from various open sources, but Clancy had a really, really good grasp of undersea warfare, even when he was straying into some more outlandish ideas, like the book's idea of a secretive caterpillar drive system, the Soviet submarines.

I think it still stands the test of time.

Submarines are still absolutely critical to modern warfare.

They're still part of the great game between the superpowers.

under the Atlantic, under the Pacific, and the hunt for Red October is probably one of the best depictions of modern undersea warfare that we have had in the last forty or fifty years.

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