Tom Clancy Speaks at the National Security Agency

This is a recently released video of a talk given in October 1986 by Tom Clancy. During the lecture, Clancy talks about the origins of The Hunt For Red October, the writing process, terrorism, and the intelligence community.

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  • @leamas1210
    @leamas12104 жыл бұрын

    tom clancy gives a standup routine to federal agents for almost 50 minutes

  • @jimmymtange9304

    @jimmymtange9304

    4 жыл бұрын

    He died!!!

  • @leamas1210

    @leamas1210

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jimmymtange9304 i'm aware

  • @codyleslie478

    @codyleslie478

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jimmymtange9304 thanks

  • @constancemiller3753

    @constancemiller3753

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not bad for an insurance agent with JFK haircut. 😎

  • @chucknades117

    @chucknades117

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@constancemiller3753 looks like a youngish letterman

  • @duanewaihi4453
    @duanewaihi44533 жыл бұрын

    Someone I knew recognized Mr. Clancy on the street in Manhattan. He asked to take a picture with him. While they took the picture, someone walked past and said, "Are you famous?" He replied, "Yea, I'm a rock star."

  • @mrw4165

    @mrw4165

    3 жыл бұрын

    That sounds just like my friend Tom.

  • @robertschultz6922

    @robertschultz6922

    Жыл бұрын

    He was to me a rock star!!!

  • @travismiller5548

    @travismiller5548

    Жыл бұрын

    What an arrogant dork

  • @jeffreygrahamwhite72
    @jeffreygrahamwhite726 жыл бұрын

    I never knew he was such a great public speaker. I could listen to the guy for hours.

  • @bluebeema

    @bluebeema

    5 жыл бұрын

    must have sold a TON of insurance.

  • @Shadowfire204

    @Shadowfire204

    3 жыл бұрын

    I figured it out once I watched some interviews although the interviewers made things hard to watch. Listening to Clancy honestly reminds me of listening to my grandpa, always got something interesting to say

  • @lisastillwagon425

    @lisastillwagon425

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tom Clancy is an extremely intelligent man; awesome public speaker!

  • @CMDRGreyWolfe

    @CMDRGreyWolfe

    3 жыл бұрын

    No, neither did I. Its like he's done it for years. Such a shame he's not with us any more.

  • @carthtc3429

    @carthtc3429

    3 жыл бұрын

    Exactly my reaction! I've read his books and loved them but never heard him speak and he is awesome! Funny, witty, entertaining... :)

  • @williamreed7347
    @williamreed7347 Жыл бұрын

    I was in the audience, this was our Air Force Wing commanders call, and he was the guest speaker. It was held in the NSA auditorium, late 1980's.

  • @panther-nk2hn

    @panther-nk2hn

    Жыл бұрын

    That's nuts.

  • @KeNost82

    @KeNost82

    Жыл бұрын

    This speech was in 1986.

  • @arpytrooper2604

    @arpytrooper2604

    Жыл бұрын

    @@KeNost82 so it was in the late 1980's

  • @VanaheimGames

    @VanaheimGames

    Жыл бұрын

    @@arpytrooper2604 Amazing!

  • @VanaheimGames

    @VanaheimGames

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Cholatemilk1 The NSA went public in 1975.

  • @leviquintero1000
    @leviquintero10003 жыл бұрын

    "im not gonna tell you what it is dumbass it's classified" lmaoooo I couldn't stop laughing that that part.

  • @224dot0dot0dot10

    @224dot0dot0dot10

    Жыл бұрын

    The really funny part that you are talking about is approximately 15 minutes and 30 seconds of the way into the KZread video :-)

  • @craydussy

    @craydussy

    Жыл бұрын

    @@224dot0dot0dot10 thank you i love you

  • @ZATennisFan

    @ZATennisFan

    6 ай бұрын

    The ultimate Catch-22?

  • @JonathanLundkvist

    @JonathanLundkvist

    4 ай бұрын

    Great answer that reminds me of a Reddit Thread that said "So much classified material is out on the web but we do not remove it because then people know its sensitive."

  • @h.m.5924
    @h.m.5924 Жыл бұрын

    I bet Tom was one HELL of an insurance salesman. God bless this man and everything he did. Even listening to this 36 years after he spoke the words, there is such an eerie feeling of relevance. RIP, Tom. Thanks for everything.

  • @black_eagle

    @black_eagle

    Жыл бұрын

    He was even better at selling BS to Americans about how invincible they are and how inferior everyone else is. No one goes broke in that business, but Clancy took it to another level. A talented propagandist, but totally full of shit.

  • @travismiller5548

    @travismiller5548

    Жыл бұрын

    Meh. He's kind of a tool.

  • @xxtripleokgaming

    @xxtripleokgaming

    Жыл бұрын

    @@travismiller5548 just like you bubba

  • @brmbkl

    @brmbkl

    Жыл бұрын

    @@travismiller5548 based off this, or inside info? if the former, you're tripping.

  • @mexicaninjafredfred

    @mexicaninjafredfred

    Жыл бұрын

    @travis miller yeah he basically just worked for the cia as propagandist the director of the cia at the time loved him and had him put out a bunch of bs

  • @napalm5941
    @napalm5941 Жыл бұрын

    To think that Tom is REALLY keen on making these people understand that he aquired all that millitary information legaly and through civilian accessable means. Merely a decade or two later you could have that type of information at the tip of your fingers, nearly instantaneoulsy and completely free. Just crazy.

  • @scottashe984

    @scottashe984

    Жыл бұрын

    Most of it is disinformation the government puts out. They spend billions on it.

  • @KeshiaFowler
    @KeshiaFowler6 жыл бұрын

    He’s a really good and captivating speaker. No wonder his books/games are so good.

  • @downsjmmyjones101

    @downsjmmyjones101

    Жыл бұрын

    Often you find people who like a specific thing about a topic or subject. Maybe it's inspiring stories of heroism or technical jargon and logistics. I think Tom was a man who loved everything about the military. He enjoyed the crunchy numbers, the feats of determinantion, and even the restrictions and rules that kept everything working even though they often feel stuffy and hindering. What he wrote can only come from a genuine love for the whole thing.

  • @brmbkl

    @brmbkl

    Жыл бұрын

    @@downsjmmyjones101 can confirm. Some ppl love efficiency and rules. They do when they went to Jesuit school and loved that.

  • @ACBMemphis
    @ACBMemphis Жыл бұрын

    It was interesting to hear his comment at 39:41 - "I have this impulse... to call Dr. Ballard … because we didn't develop that technology to look at the Titanic." - it was in fact a recent news item that Ballard's Titanic expedition was also a cover for finding some secret nuclear submarine wreckage!

  • @FormerGovernmentHuman
    @FormerGovernmentHuman Жыл бұрын

    I love Tom Clancy’s novels. However this is the first time I have seen him animated and speaking. Not what I expected, but I am certainly not disappointed.

  • @jrdougan
    @jrdougan2 жыл бұрын

    Time codes: 00:30 "Storozhevoy" mutiny 07:55 Became insurance agent 08:04 USNI Meeting and payments for writing 09:38 What is a sub captain like? 11:04 Writing "The Hunt for Red October" (HfRO) 14:10 Crazy Ivan 16:16 Editing HfRO 17:40 Release of HfRO 20:00 Krazny or Kraznaya? 21:20 Research Sources 21:41 "Harpoon" Wargame 26:13 FBI HRT Demonstration 27:42 "Patriot Games" and the Troubles in Northern Ireland 33:31 Future of War is Terrorism 34:04 Role of NSA in dealing with Terrorism. 35:49 Q&A 35:57 Philosophy of classified questions 36:31 Q: Can you comment on your research on the stealth fighter? 38:57 Q: In several sections of "Red October" you mention NSA. Where did you go for information? Or, did you attempt to seek information about NSA? 42:34 Q: In "Red Storm" you reference non-Soviet Warsaw Pact forces participating in war. Does that reflect you view of what would actually happen in a Third World War? 44:11 Q: What has been the reaction to "Red October" in the Navy? 45:06 Q: If, in your research, you were the recipient of classified material and you knew it, what would be your reaction? 45:35 Soviet Boomers phoning home (WaPo front page, security problems at Cheltenham)

  • @godfather4312

    @godfather4312

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks bro

  • @manofcultura

    @manofcultura

    Жыл бұрын

    Legend. In every sense of that word lol

  • @Fosi94

    @Fosi94

    Жыл бұрын

    thank you.

  • @pwr2al4

    @pwr2al4

    Жыл бұрын

    Not all heroes wear capes. Thanks.

  • @Fosi94

    @Fosi94

    Жыл бұрын

    @@pwr2al4 you're welcome.

  • @robbiereilly
    @robbiereilly6 жыл бұрын

    Excellent. He was such a great wit. Could communicate his ideas eloquently and with great humor. Dearly missed in this modern day in which we find ourselves.

  • @nathanhaney91

    @nathanhaney91

    Жыл бұрын

    @@slowboycapital lol are you serious? Only a moron wouldn't find Clancy at least somewhat funny and eloquent.

  • @brmbkl

    @brmbkl

    Жыл бұрын

    @@slowboycapital Im gen X, and this old fashioned wit, yes. Not random enough for ya?

  • @CARLIN4737

    @CARLIN4737

    10 ай бұрын

    Hell on Earth

  • @Pope_Frank
    @Pope_Frank3 жыл бұрын

    He sounds like the friend of your dad that you enjoy talking to

  • @IVORY123100

    @IVORY123100

    3 жыл бұрын

    While were building Tom Clancy's house on The Chesapeake Bay in 88 , Many of the carpenters would stay in a camper on the jobsite , Since it was a long ride home . Tom would come over in the evenings and sit around the fire while we drank beer and talk with us . Because he lived nearby and checked on how his house was coming around . When I first met him , I had no idea who he was . Until workers started bringing in piles of books to be autographed for themselves and friends of theirs . Within a week or so I realized he was a #1 bestseller and a movie was in production " Hunt for Red October " .. When I talked with him " How are you doing Tom . He was interesting to talk to , just another guy . . But damn if he didn't have one massive house on a massive piece of property overlooking The Bay ..

  • @tallmanfromcornwall1229
    @tallmanfromcornwall1229 Жыл бұрын

    This was phenomenal. "Why can't they just give me credit for being smart?" Yes you are Tom, yes you are.

  • @Shadowfire204
    @Shadowfire2043 жыл бұрын

    Clancy- *makes joke about classified info* Audience- *laughs nervously* *sweat drips down brow*

  • @thomaspick4123

    @thomaspick4123

    Жыл бұрын

    Who murdered him?

  • @666Tomato666

    @666Tomato666

    Жыл бұрын

    The joke about crypto from subs and the audience reaction.... chef's kiss.

  • @AudieHolland

    @AudieHolland

    Жыл бұрын

    @@666Tomato666 Rather obvious. World War II. British capture German U-boat. Many years later Americans make movie about it with American Navy capturing German U-boat with Enigma machine onboard.

  • @666Tomato666

    @666Tomato666

    Жыл бұрын

    @@AudieHolland You mean the Brits that keep forgetting about the full decryption system for Enigma they got from the Poles before the war even started?

  • @AudieHolland

    @AudieHolland

    Жыл бұрын

    @@666Tomato666 I didn't say they were the first to capture an Enigma. But they were the ones who captured a German U-boat for that specific purpose. Which is why I made the reply, that it was rather obvious that the US Navy would try to get their hands on Soviet coding books and machines from a sunken Yankee.

  • @Sloth5peed
    @Sloth5peed6 жыл бұрын

    I was born 88, my grandmother was a big fan. Owned all of his books, my grandfather was AF and worked on the Manhattan project. My grandfather often laughed at the books but always nodded when i asked if certain things were true. Oh i miss his writing.

  • @ZATennisFan
    @ZATennisFan Жыл бұрын

    His story about the naval officer refusing to tell what he should take out of the book because it’s classified had me in stitches. Talk about the ultimate Catch-22🤣🤣

  • @Blackrain4xmas
    @Blackrain4xmas7 жыл бұрын

    Of all the interviews and speeches I've seen with Tom Clancy, this was my favorite. I think it gave the best, most personal description of his writing and researching experience as well as his motives, his likes, his dislikes, and his knowledge base. Thanks for posting this

  • @MatthewJHood

    @MatthewJHood

    7 жыл бұрын

    Blackrain4xmas I think he was candid because I suspect he never expected the talk to be made public.

  • @jrdougan

    @jrdougan

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think it is because it is a early in his career speech and he hadn’t gotten tired of that part of PR yet.

  • @stephenmcinerney9457

    @stephenmcinerney9457

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MatthewJHood 29:48- and especially 31:26-32:09 onwards: a very candid take on Northern Ireland civil rights in the 1960s-70s, and the comparative lack in the UK of national-level oversight vs US federal Civil Rights enforcement/ 'Mississippi Burning'. Also makes you wonder what he would have said about the 2001-2021 Afghanistan occupation, Guantanamo and Iraq.

  • @wagner9050

    @wagner9050

    Жыл бұрын

    @@stephenmcinerney9457 Are you kin to the guy in TV's West Wing?

  • @jonatanwestholm
    @jonatanwestholm3 жыл бұрын

    Such a gem of All-American humor and storytelling.

  • @happyhaunter_5546
    @happyhaunter_5546 Жыл бұрын

    This is immaculate public speaking skill.

  • @wagner9050

    @wagner9050

    Жыл бұрын

    Shtick??

  • @jeremybr2020
    @jeremybr2020 Жыл бұрын

    Someone finally just uploaded the full audio book, Red Storm Rising only 7 days ago. Easily one of my favorite books of all time. The attention to detail and authenticity that Tom Clancy puts in that book, is second to none. I only wish he was around to write a new updated version of Red Storm Rising, using modern day advanced military technology, like drones and 5th gen fighters. His absence is still felt to this day.

  • @melodiefreund2026
    @melodiefreund202611 ай бұрын

    I absolutely love Tom Clancy’s novels. I started reading them in high school and I still reread them to this day. I graduated in 1984. I even named my cats Tom and Clancy. RIP.

  • @kurtwagner350
    @kurtwagner350 Жыл бұрын

    It’s criminal how few of his quips the audience caught

  • @arnoldsherrill2585
    @arnoldsherrill2585 Жыл бұрын

    We were lucky enough to have him as guest of honor at DragonCon in 1990 the autograph line was incredible I'd never seen anything like that before or since I mean it was silent , and everyone was very patient. I was working part-time, before a career switch into security for the B Dalton bookstore chain at the time in Atlanta. We couldn't keep Tom Clancy novels on the shelves back then. His style of writing was so unique at the time people were not only buying it for themselves once they finished the story they bought a copy for someone else, and gave it as a gift. I had more than one customer tell me they blew an entire weekend getting through the book., but it was worth every second. The man did an incredible amount of background research using unclassified information for putting his books together to the point where he actually got interviewed by government officials who thought he had violated security protocol , and he was never a government employee, just a writer who knew how to do research

  • @wagner9050

    @wagner9050

    Жыл бұрын

    And had an insurance agency in the middle of the Gov't. / Munitions Industry / Military complex triangle. Much Admiration 4 he!

  • @davidknoop

    @davidknoop

    Жыл бұрын

    There is another one you should read, if you haven’t yet: Frederick Forsyth.

  • @wheelcha1rman2
    @wheelcha1rman2 Жыл бұрын

    Red Storm is my favourite book of all time. I'm so glad I stumbled upon this. What a guy.

  • @roncolpitts9806

    @roncolpitts9806

    Жыл бұрын

    read it once a year

  • @buzzaard7036

    @buzzaard7036

    Жыл бұрын

    I bought that book in the Pearl Harbor exchange as we were on the way to the Persian Gulf, I had finished it right before we transited into the gulf and then the Stark was hit while we were there, you can imagine what was going through my mind at that time.

  • @wheelcha1rman2

    @wheelcha1rman2

    Жыл бұрын

    @@buzzaard7036 that must have been pretty wild, seeing the AirLand battle doctrine playing out to real effect. I was born two days before the ground war began! My mother vividly remembers being afraid of a draft & my dad being called-up.

  • @w.martin9992
    @w.martin9992 Жыл бұрын

    Clancy had great imagination and enough facts to make his books ring true. For those of us who grew up in the cold war, gaming out and imagining how a potential conflict with the USSR would go down was something we did quite a bit, but Clancy made it even more vivid. I think it's pretty clear that those in the intel community and military appreciated his work because those types of thought experiments were important and essential for them as well.

  • @black_eagle

    @black_eagle

    Жыл бұрын

    His books don't actually ring true at all. They're comic books for adults, perfectly tailored to an American audience that loves to be told how invincible they are and how inferior and evil everyone who opposes them is.

  • @wagner9050

    @wagner9050

    Жыл бұрын

    @@black_eagle What kind of anal passage were You given birth from?

  • @brmbkl

    @brmbkl

    Жыл бұрын

    The passage where he states for the second time that “it wasn’t hard” tells me that his mind was quite logical. Not that he didn’t need any imagination, but that to fill in the basic outlines of his premisse, he made logical conclusions based on real life insights into objectives, needs and practical ways to achieve them.

  • @theycallmehoipilloi5495
    @theycallmehoipilloi5495 Жыл бұрын

    I always loved his takes on the Soviet Union. He always dissed the quality of their equipment and their leadership. From the looks of things right now, I don't think things have improved very much in modern day Russia. Such an intelligent man. He probably should have actually been working for the NSA. The problem would have been him having to take a massive pay cut. Miss you Tom.

  • @Blueoriontiger

    @Blueoriontiger

    Жыл бұрын

    I got recommended this video today, and ironically it's come out that the "bulletproof" vests that the Russians are using are either rusted steel, or cardboard plates (which isn't bulletproof at all). Nobody's seen the all-famed ".50 caliber resistant" battle suits that were touted a year or so ago.

  • @sanchowitfurrows1561

    @sanchowitfurrows1561

    Жыл бұрын

    can you recommend some other talks you've referred, please?

  • @innacrisis6991

    @innacrisis6991

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Blueoriontiger They're infamous for developing technologies and then failing to ever actually implement or produce them, far more so than the west, who might not use half of the revolutionary technologies we come up with but at least _do_ make the equipment we _actually need,_ unlike Russia due to their unimaginably corrupt power structures

  • @manodfergus

    @manodfergus

    Жыл бұрын

    He probably did work for the NSA!

  • @churblefurbles

    @churblefurbles

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Blueoriontiger Perhaps question what you've been told by the empire of lies, most certainly telling that fewer and fewer men of moral character will fight for it now.

  • @brianshawkey2910
    @brianshawkey29106 жыл бұрын

    What a brilliant man. He was truly a fun guy to listen to.

  • @JoshuaC923
    @JoshuaC923 Жыл бұрын

    6 years later, the algorithm has decided to show me this gem. Thank you for posting this!

  • @J95Sim
    @J95Sim Жыл бұрын

    Fun fact, Tom Clancy founded a video game studio called 'Red Storm Entertainment' named after his book Red Storm Rising. They created an enormously successful line up of games which are still being produced to date by different developers (Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon and more.)

  • @tlshortyshorty5810

    @tlshortyshorty5810

    Жыл бұрын

    “Oh, they want to make video games off my books! That’s cool.” couple decades later: *rapid spinning in grave*

  • @janslavik5284

    @janslavik5284

    10 ай бұрын

    @@tlshortyshorty5810 His grave could be used as a renewable energy source everytime ubisoft releases a new R6S operator

  • @thomassmartin9728
    @thomassmartin9728 Жыл бұрын

    Mr. Clancy can certainly write, but he can also present a fantastic talk. not only that, he can bring some comedy with him on stage. I could listen to him for hours, hes a walking talking encyclopedia of military knowledge.

  • @workinman9786
    @workinman9786 Жыл бұрын

    This guy had a mind like a steel trap. I’ve worked with and had friends like this, and they’re fascinating people. It seems that the best of them get snapped up by the defense community.

  • @F3PIZZA

    @F3PIZZA

    Жыл бұрын

    I’m curious to get a better idea of what you mean. Do you literally mean someone who remembers everything (or at least seems to remember everything)?

  • @workinman9786

    @workinman9786

    Жыл бұрын

    @@F3PIZZA What I mean is that he’s an individual that misses very little that he sees or hears, and can later draw on these experiences to combine them with other experiences or observations to reach conclusions very quickly. He may have been eidetic, but most folks I’ve known with eidetic memories did not make the fact of their “gift” widely known.

  • @wagner9050

    @wagner9050

    Жыл бұрын

    Eye Hear Ya! Duh Fast Food-industry snapped me up fairly quick... 'made it a career. Duh scenery's always a-changing: sum days I'm doing Fountain Drinks... other times I Drop Fries.

  • @wfxxfox1963
    @wfxxfox19633 жыл бұрын

    What a treasure to happen upon... Patriot Games is still my favorite TC novel, although a close second would be the two that have to go together: Debt of Honor and Executive Orders. And here he is in the midst of writing it and talking about it. For a TC "fanboy" this is pure gold!

  • @djbadlt

    @djbadlt

    Жыл бұрын

    I always look DoH, EO, and Bear and Dragon together and call it "Zhang Han San" trilogy

  • @NeckbeardPr1me
    @NeckbeardPr1me Жыл бұрын

    That was fantastic. Very charismatic and he understood his audience perfectly!

  • @jdtravels5140
    @jdtravels5140 Жыл бұрын

    This is a blast from the past in 1986 at the Friedman Auditorium. He was very entertaining and at the height of his success as a writer. Definitely the most entertaining guest speaker during my tour at the HQs.

  • @thatsnodildo1974
    @thatsnodildo1974 Жыл бұрын

    Dude works the crowd so well I love listening to him talk so much

  • @jonser20cent68
    @jonser20cent685 ай бұрын

    First time seeing Tom Clancy and he is very impressive and a great story teller. Must be in his Irish blood. I could listen to him for hours.

  • @donsmith9899
    @donsmith98993 жыл бұрын

    We always lose our best, way to early in there lives, and in ours. Tom Clancy was one of those.

  • @scootertooter6874
    @scootertooter68745 жыл бұрын

    I remember listening to this for the first time in the 89-91 time frame...it was great then, and it is great now.

  • @midnightchurningspriteshaq8533
    @midnightchurningspriteshaq8533 Жыл бұрын

    The power of narrative should not be underestimated. People get wrapped up into the characters, and either learn their lessons, or become distracted, convoluted. This is true in writing, art, acting, and real life.

  • @pathwalker2867
    @pathwalker28673 жыл бұрын

    This man is now rolling in his grave :( RIP Tom Clancy.

  • @hiphop90s98

    @hiphop90s98

    3 жыл бұрын

    Especially with what has happened with these so called good Ubisoft games these days lol remember how good Rainbow Six 3 was in comparison to that crap they call rainbow six siege nowdays , pathetic they don’t make em this badass no more 👊🏽RIP

  • @Waiakalulu1
    @Waiakalulu1 Жыл бұрын

    I read his books and enjoyed them so much. I never knew how engaging he was as a speaker. Amazing!

  • @wagner9050

    @wagner9050

    Жыл бұрын

    Yep... my ignorance. Thanks 2 duh Uploader & YT.

  • @andyny29
    @andyny29 Жыл бұрын

    When I first read “the hunt for red October” I literally could not put that book down. I remember being disappointed with the movie version.

  • @markteague8889
    @markteague88892 жыл бұрын

    Listening to Tom Clancy talk about his research and writing process. 😂 Wish we had writers who went to this level of effort today. 😢

  • @udirt

    @udirt

    Жыл бұрын

    Stephenson for one ...

  • @scottf5791

    @scottf5791

    Жыл бұрын

    Yep exactly! If only…

  • @x808drifter

    @x808drifter

    Жыл бұрын

    Guess you didn't read The Martian.

  • @IAmAFamel

    @IAmAFamel

    Жыл бұрын

    Michael Lewis

  • @finn8474

    @finn8474

    Жыл бұрын

    We do.

  • @Mariner311
    @Mariner311 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent talk - I had read the hardcover in 1985 (loaned to my by a VP CO next-door-neighbor), and was just finishing "Red Storm Rising" as I climbed in the plane to take me to RTC Orlando. I became a Naval Aircrewman (SH-60B), and while going through some secondary schools at NAS North Island, a number of us students (VS, HS, and HSL) used to play "Harpoon" over the weekends when it was still a "board game" - we'd take up 3 barracks rooms - one for blue, one for red, with a referee room in the middle. I was then INCREDIBLY Blessed to be flying with the HSL Detachment that was involved with the Hunt for Red October movie filming in The Straits of Juan de Fueca (still have the patch the USS Reuben James made - to the annoyance of the production company)... then spent the rest of my career waiting for the NEXT hardcover to hit the NEX - and Mr. Clancy made SURE the military got it, if not first, but never late.

  • @Daniel-dl3tf

    @Daniel-dl3tf

    Жыл бұрын

    now theres a name I haven't heard in a long time...

  • @jacoballen3267
    @jacoballen3267 Жыл бұрын

    First time I’ve ever listened to Tom Clancy speak at a conference. Sumbitch was one smart cookie!

  • @bme7491
    @bme7491 Жыл бұрын

    The rule is: if you get unauthorized access to senstive information, you don't "delete" it. You keep it and hand it over to the appropriate authorities. This allows them to see what the hell you obtained so they can more effectively deal with it.

  • @brmbkl

    @brmbkl

    Жыл бұрын

    He meant delete the pose, surely? Also, surprised to hear him use that word. In 84, home computers were still a rarity, no?

  • @goawayihavecommentstomake1488
    @goawayihavecommentstomake1488 Жыл бұрын

    Couldn’t help but notice this was 47:47 in length. Surely not a coincidence!

  • @hennies9509
    @hennies950911 ай бұрын

    His books are amazing, as he says, he used his common sense and brain cells. RIP

  • @williamcase426

    @williamcase426

    5 ай бұрын

    Love those brain cells

  • @YokozunaNumber1
    @YokozunaNumber19 ай бұрын

    He mentioned Dr. Ballard and how that technology wasn't made to look for the Titanic. 30 years later, Ballard admitted that the discovery of the Titanic was part of a secret mission to look for missing submarines. Clancy got it right. Again.

  • @ChiefsFanInSC
    @ChiefsFanInSC4 жыл бұрын

    His description of "The Troubles" in Northern Island was amazing. Very interesting to hear this described during this time period.

  • @andygass9096

    @andygass9096

    Жыл бұрын

    Pity it was wrong

  • @johnnymc1988

    @johnnymc1988

    Жыл бұрын

    RUC were a state sponsored murder squad

  • @wagner9050

    @wagner9050

    Жыл бұрын

    @@andygass9096 Accurate. Succinct. And I'm not English nor Irish. I'm an American like Clancy There4 possess no bias Xcept for America.

  • @Gyrfalcon312
    @Gyrfalcon312 Жыл бұрын

    Tom here is an inspiration. 'Just sit down and write the damn thing,' he said! Man, I've lost count of how many excuses I've put up to not really dedicate myself... and I have plenty of story ideas.

  • @wagner9050

    @wagner9050

    Жыл бұрын

    Get spiral-bound notebook. A box of rollerball black ink pens. Begin writing from BOTTOM page of notebook & go upwards... don't write on back sheet of what you just wrote. Start. Best Wishes & may GOD Bless you\your efforts!!! Happy Holidays!!

  • @MondoRockable
    @MondoRockable Жыл бұрын

    I read THFRO back in the day when it first came out. It was amazing the amount of detail Clancy put into the novel. He was certainly an affable guy as demonstrated by this great video.

  • @pro1105
    @pro1105 Жыл бұрын

    Damn this guy is almost literally fun to listen to

  • @maxvonberg7866
    @maxvonberg7866 Жыл бұрын

    What a lovely talk - an hour just flew by.

  • @TippyHippy
    @TippyHippy Жыл бұрын

    Tom Clancy’s Tom Clancy presents Tom Clancy’s Tom Clancy: Tom Clancy.

  • @ByWayOfDeception
    @ByWayOfDeception Жыл бұрын

    'Red Storm Rising' was such a good book, I read it shortly after it was published. I never knew Tom Clancy was such a good public speaker.

  • @ozymandias1758
    @ozymandias1758 Жыл бұрын

    Wish he had lived during the modern era of TED talks.. he's got the timing and delivery of a standup comic, with wit and intelligence. What a ham!

  • @wagner9050

    @wagner9050

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes! Turtle Extruder Devices on commercial fish boats a big issue! Enjoy your crackers & sardines!

  • @ploomperera395
    @ploomperera395 Жыл бұрын

    Wow! What a great story teller & a visionary too. Now I'm gonna binge anything Tom Clancy related. Great man.

  • @wagner9050

    @wagner9050

    Жыл бұрын

    Yea.... gonna pull outta storage his books or @ least a couple of 'em!

  • @alanrogers7090
    @alanrogers70903 жыл бұрын

    When Mr. Clancy was speaking about "Russian trust in their allies", I was reminded of a bit of information I learned about that. When the Soviets gave/sold fighter aircraft to those same allies in the Warsaw Pact, they were downgraded versions of the Soviet aircraft used in Russian territory. They had shorter ranges and their radar units were replaced by inferior models, just in case. In case these countries rebelled, or in case some pilot, somewhere, were to defect to the "West", there would not be any top secret parts that would "embarrass" their military leaders by giving their latest and greatest ideas to the opposition.

  • @play3rthr339

    @play3rthr339

    Жыл бұрын

    And then a pilot in the motherland defected and with him an entire Mig-25 Foxbat, which was the latest and greatest russian jet at the time.

  • @play3rthr339

    @play3rthr339

    Жыл бұрын

    @wavvy 100%, imagine sitting there going as fast as you can as low as you can to avoid detection from both ussr and nato radars, pop up well within japanese airspace to get detected on radar, hope you don't get scrambled on and shot down by fighters stationed in japan, then land at a small municipal airfield when you realize you don't have the gas to make it to your planned airbase. Oh, and all of this was done purely by memory, he had to memorize is flight plan and locations of various divert airfields in order to get on the ground, because afaik he didn't have a map that went that far south, as his ordered flight plan was still within russian airspace.

  • @churblefurbles

    @churblefurbles

    Жыл бұрын

    Export spec is a universal thing.

  • @wagner9050

    @wagner9050

    Жыл бұрын

    So... the Rooskies got rid of the '67 Dodge Dart w/ duh "Three on the Tree" gearshifter... Butt kept the Chevy Corvette?

  • @wagner9050

    @wagner9050

    Жыл бұрын

    @@play3rthr339 Yeah. Can't you?

  • @michaelodonoghue7464
    @michaelodonoghue7464 Жыл бұрын

    SAS conducting Live Fire Hostage Rescue Exercise with Live Volunteer Hostage and the Volunteer (an Army Sergeant) was briefed as to precisely what was about to happen in the room containing himself, Five Terrorist Silhouettes, a Safety Officer and the soon to arrive, Hostage Rescue Team. To complicate matters slightly, the Volunteer was requested (Ordered) to throw himself out THAT Window when the excitement began. Unfortunately, mention of the use of Flash Bang Grenades was omitted from his briefing and when deployed they did precisely what they were designed to do; created Shock and Confusion. Dragging his stunned Mind back into the present, the Volunteer remembered that he was to throw himself out a Window. Unfortunately directly in front of the Window he selected, some meters out, was an overly aggressive Terrorist Silhouette, the intended Target of an SAS Trooper with a Shotgun. Regrettably as the stupefied Volunteer hurled himself out the nearest Window, the Trooper was despatching his overly aggressive Silhouette, with a well aimed Shotgun Blast, which caused numerous Shotgun Pellets to depart through the same Window, as the Volunteer. Although the Volunteer was moving quite quickly, the Shotgun Pellets were moving faster, or at least they were, until the Volunteer’s Butt Cheeks Stopped them mid flight. There are not many people living in the world today, who can claim that they were once shot by an SAS Trooper, in a Hostage Rescue Situation and lived to tell the Tale.

  • @soberek
    @soberek4 жыл бұрын

    The closest you can get to meeting Jack Ryan in person...

  • @mrw4165

    @mrw4165

    3 жыл бұрын

    Agreed, Tom’s alternate persona.

  • @cibriosis

    @cibriosis

    2 жыл бұрын

    The only man that could and he were would do the same at this time and say about national intelligence ..about the second cold war..coronavirus...global changes in weather...he was an american lecare

  • @robertschultz6922

    @robertschultz6922

    Жыл бұрын

    I'd rather meet Mr Clancy then Ryan

  • @chrismathewsjr

    @chrismathewsjr

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mrw4165 wait, you guys think an insurance salesmen who got lucky writing a book for 60 IQ boomers is a fucking action hero? lmao you guys rock

  • @mrw4165

    @mrw4165

    Жыл бұрын

    @@chrismathewsjr sounds like you need to get lucky…

  • @catharsis77
    @catharsis77 Жыл бұрын

    I was in the Navy and when I read this I was in shock at the stuff he was telling.

  • @cjware316
    @cjware3167 жыл бұрын

    Theres hours of TC interviews and videos on the web, but still not enough.. I would love to of seen him appear on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast if he was still alive.. Would of been amazing.

  • @seansky2721
    @seansky2721 Жыл бұрын

    What a great guy! Glib, eloquent and entertaining. God rest you, Thomas.

  • @TheChris1299100
    @TheChris1299100 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for posting this, I had no idea that Tom Clancy was such a good public speaker. This video also re-affirms my perception of him as a professional in every sense of the word.

  • @FimiliarGalaxy9
    @FimiliarGalaxy9 Жыл бұрын

    Sunglasses indoors is the mark of a true American

  • @wagner9050

    @wagner9050

    Жыл бұрын

    Clancy needed thoze Bcuz NSA was Zapping his cranium w/ LASERs ISO Explosives that could kill sum of our Intelligentsia. You wouldn't want That, would you?

  • @os2mac
    @os2mac Жыл бұрын

    Tom Clancy is the Father of OSINT. I called it.

  • @therealmwalker1
    @therealmwalker13 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing this, it is really nice to actually visualize who Tom Clancy was like and now I can appreciate my collection of his books a bit more. :)

  • @brmbkl

    @brmbkl

    Жыл бұрын

    Lucky, right. They say, never meet your heroes, and then you learn about a class act like this.

  • @hughgreentree
    @hughgreentree4 жыл бұрын

    I've war gamed with Larry Bond a few times and he has some great Tom Clancy stories. Larry is very similar to Tom; same way of telling stories. I have several versions of his game HARPOON that I have played several times (including with Larry).

  • @hughgreentree

    @hughgreentree

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Dante Alighieri Larry IS very cool. He is still alive. I saw him last year at the Origins Game Fair where he ran a game of HARPOON.

  • @richardvernon317

    @richardvernon317

    Жыл бұрын

    Larry wrote three books himself Vortex was the best one of the three.

  • @hughgreentree

    @hughgreentree

    Жыл бұрын

    I am pretty sure that Larry has written more than 3 books. He gave me a copy of one of them last time I saw him. He is a scholar and a gentleman.

  • @richardvernon317

    @richardvernon317

    Жыл бұрын

    @@hughgreentree Only read the first three, Red Phoenix, Vortex and Cauldron (Which I found totally unbelievable).

  • @Stone_on_Nat_Sec
    @Stone_on_Nat_Sec Жыл бұрын

    This is great! Thanks for posting. He was a truly great national security mind during the Cold War.

  • @JourneyPT
    @JourneyPT Жыл бұрын

    What an amazing speaker. This is so nice to watch.

  • @emilmadmax
    @emilmadmax Жыл бұрын

    What an eloquent man with great wit. What he Said on terrorism was absolute Precise and forshadowing. Loved The talk

  • @darylking265
    @darylking265 Жыл бұрын

    I bought the book "Hunt for Red October" because I had read in the paper a story about the book. It mentioned that he was questioned about his sources because it was suspected to have classified information. I thought a book like that must be pretty good so I got the book and have been a Tom Clancy fan ever since.

  • @Joshjames1234
    @Joshjames12343 жыл бұрын

    Man, I would love to hear his perspective on current events. It is a shame that listening to him is like doing research on what life was like in the 80s.

  • @hiphop90s98

    @hiphop90s98

    3 жыл бұрын

    The Good Old Days 👊🏽 RIP Tom Clancy

  • @sixstringb71

    @sixstringb71

    3 жыл бұрын

    I can only imagine how outraged he would be at our current state of affairs

  • @cerebralm

    @cerebralm

    Жыл бұрын

    He wrote a book on current events, it's called Rainbow Six.

  • @thedevilinthecircuit1414
    @thedevilinthecircuit1414 Жыл бұрын

    I was there for this one in the Canine Auditorium. I chatted with Tom afterward; he seemed like a genuinely nice guy.

  • @T.R.R.Jolkien
    @T.R.R.Jolkien4 жыл бұрын

    I love the details in his books

  • @terencewinters2154
    @terencewinters21543 жыл бұрын

    This was 1986 when there was a Warsaw pact .

  • @timschutte6924
    @timschutte6924 Жыл бұрын

    He speaks as he writes. Very intelligently and comically. Don't take that as a dumb thing. He is very knowledgeable.

  • @paulvalery9778

    @paulvalery9778

    Жыл бұрын

    Durrr

  • @wagner9050

    @wagner9050

    Жыл бұрын

    @@paulvalery9778 ??

  • @wagner9050

    @wagner9050

    Жыл бұрын

    'Lost in translation' could be ascribed to Clancy. How? Ex.: duh modern computer you have in your hand... a 5G Android cellphone compared to Steve Jobs 1st marketed apple computer. Clancy's probable 140+ IQ interfacing w/ an audience (not one in video) of average people (100). BTW... recent article states Einstein's IQ 120's. His has been severely DOWN-graded to make dummies Feel Better. Current high SAT scores: in duh 2000's! SAT's once maxxed @ 1680.

  • @338lapsniper
    @338lapsniper Жыл бұрын

    I waited for a John Clark movie my whole life, they really murdered that dream. I wonder if he was still around if they would produce the same junk.

  • @gechirinos
    @gechirinos3 жыл бұрын

    My favorite writer of all times.

  • @chiprahn
    @chiprahn5 жыл бұрын

    That wig and glasses ain't foolin me, Agent 47!

  • @Yellowstone3000

    @Yellowstone3000

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bruh

  • @natozilla2425

    @natozilla2425

    3 жыл бұрын

    Underrated comment

  • @hotrodriguez549

    @hotrodriguez549

    3 жыл бұрын

    Word

  • @lisastillwagon425

    @lisastillwagon425

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tom Clancy look like Ray Orbison!

  • @lisastillwagon425

    @lisastillwagon425

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tom Clancy look like Ray Orbison!

  • @tinapreston4332
    @tinapreston4332 Жыл бұрын

    HE CLEARLY IS BLESSED WITH A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY

  • @gw10758
    @gw10758 Жыл бұрын

    I learned so much about the subject today.. Thanks

  • @silvalinan4077
    @silvalinan40773 жыл бұрын

    Video quality is superb.

  • @darealickt

    @darealickt

    2 жыл бұрын

    Would expect anything less of the National Security Agency?

  • @williamcase426

    @williamcase426

    5 ай бұрын

    Top of the line VHS technology

  • @johncasteel1780
    @johncasteel1780 Жыл бұрын

    Superb speaker, all without a teleprompter.

  • @gw10758
    @gw10758 Жыл бұрын

    "Hunt" came out right at the same time as another book called "Murder at the Red October" by Anthony Olcott... both books were superb

  • @wagner9050

    @wagner9050

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks! Didn't know that. Bookstore here I come.

  • @Brian6587
    @Brian6587 Жыл бұрын

    Wow, love him. Never seen a video of him before today. Very quick witted. I never read the "Hunt For Red October" book but now I want to.

  • @sallywitherspoon7755
    @sallywitherspoon7755 Жыл бұрын

    The Hunt For Red October and In Harms Way are my favorite. I thoroughly enjoyed hearing Mr Clancy talk about how he gets his ideas

  • @podulox
    @podulox Жыл бұрын

    Hesitating to call this 'entertainment', this guy is such an easy watch... Easy to hear, easy to listen to and easy to get the message. Humans have a lot - This guy is one of them.

  • @pseudotasuki
    @pseudotasuki Жыл бұрын

    It's really interesting to see what he got right and wrong about the F-117.

  • @StudMacher96
    @StudMacher96 Жыл бұрын

    Finally we finally see what he looks like. Not just his video games

  • @skycladobserver9246
    @skycladobserver9246 Жыл бұрын

    I've played in many of Larry Bond's Harpoon games over the years and had many great conversations and met Tom Clancy as well back in the early 90's.

  • @viper3-346
    @viper3-3464 жыл бұрын

    Such a great speech!

  • @cibriosis
    @cibriosis2 жыл бұрын

    He spoke at the nsa..he created some of the most intellectually profund and action packed thrillers..he created a complex yet bold personagge and only perhaps equal to smiley in a sense..never underestimate a lowly insurance agent again

  • @peterdixon7975
    @peterdixon7975 Жыл бұрын

    A privilige to listen to this. His logical dissection of innocuous fact is an education.

  • @kodoboto451
    @kodoboto451 Жыл бұрын

    Thing about the Storozhevoy is that Sablin didn't want to defect to Sweden, but go to St Petersburg and moor near the Avrora and deliver a speech about the revival of Leninist values

  • @stanstanislav1471
    @stanstanislav14715 жыл бұрын

    Amazing speech!!!

  • @markt.3454
    @markt.3454 Жыл бұрын

    Wow! I love his books, and what a speaker!

  • @TacticalGamingNetwork
    @TacticalGamingNetwork2 жыл бұрын

    Good thing some of us are being true to his legacy and working on a new title paying homage to the original R6, Ghost Recon and Sum Of All Fears video games unlike some of these certain studios we shall not name. Nothing but respect for this man! His novels are awesome!

  • @williamcase426

    @williamcase426

    5 ай бұрын

    Look how they massacred our boy