![]() Coyle quite faithfully embedded his characters in this conflict, thereby outsourcing much of the plot to Hackett’s work. His book controversially detailed how a 1985 Soviet invasion of Europe might look at the strategic and operational level. General Hackett was an Australian-born British Army officer and ex-commander of NATO’s Northern Army Group. ![]() However, criticism of the lack of plot should acknowledge that Team Yankee takes place inside the fictional war of General Sir John Hackett’s 1982 best-seller, The Third World War. Harold Coyle’s book brought personal experience.Ĭoyle was not yet a professional author and a lack of plot detail and complex character development made Team Yankee feel like a graphic novel. Popular authors such as Tom Clancy brought well researched information on these things to the masses. The USA’s Air-Land Battle doctrine was driving new approaches to combined arms warfare. The technology behind weapons like the new M1 Abrams tank was attracting controversy. Their accurate descriptions of weapons and tactics fed a thirst for knowledge not easily obtained. Team Yankee rode a wave of techno-thriller war novels popular in a time before the internet. As a popular Cold-War novel, there remains professional lessons in the book’s success. However, judgement of its professional value should be made through a contemporaneous lens. Few military professionals would claim that Team Yankee is great literature. ![]() Team Yankee went on to be syndicated into a graphic novel, a comic book series, two PC games, and a boardgame.Ī well-considered Cove book review by Chris Johnson delivered a scathing attack on the novel’s value as military professional literature. Coyle served as a US Army major and became a successful author and co-author of several works of military fiction. Harold Coyle’s debut novel Team Yankee attempted to portray a combat team commander’s experience of war between superpowers in the late 1980s.
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