Reddit reviews Red Storm Rising: A Suspense Thriller

My top long fics:

Hermione Granger and the Boy Who Lived: 660k words long canon rewrite in a non-magic AU. It's so good I like it more than the original series.

Emperor, linkffn(5904185): 680k words and still in progress, a great war epic that rivals Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising in quality.

Divided and Entwined, linkffn(11910994): Voldemort was a lot scarier in this 640k words long story, and canon Horcrux Hunt would have completely failed. But Hermione and Dumbledore were up to the challenge. It's another great war epic and polit thriller.

The Accidental Animagus, linkffn(9863146): 700k words long and generally lots of fun, but Years 1 and 2 followed canon stations a little too close. Its sequel Animagus at War, linkffn(12088294), is even more fun, but the author has her priority set on another fic at moment.

If you want to read a fun fictional book of exactly this playing out, I recommend Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising.

Read Red Storm Rising, Hunt for Red October, Submarine, and maybe Fighter Wing, then walk away and never read another of "his" books.

Amazing author.

Sounds like you've already had some informative answers but just for fun, and in honor of Tom Clancy's passing, I'd recommend Red Storm Rising for a fictionalized but realistic description of your scenario. Great coverage is given to defending carriers against air to surface missiles, protecting convoys from subs, and ground campaigns with close air support.

It's a bit dated but gives you a sense of what's possible.

There is a history of data systems technician online, which explains how the Navy changed it's way of operations in tracking enemy ships and planes up to the modern aegis system. Gives you an idea of how the Navy transformed from guns to missiles.

http://ethw.org/First-Hand:No_Damned_Computer_is_Going_to_Tell_Me_What_to_DO_-_The_Story_of_the_Naval_Tactical_Data_System,_NTDS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Man%27s_Bluff:_The_Untold_Story_of_American_Submarine_Espionage

Hunt for Red October
https://www.amazon.com/Hunt-October-Jack-Ryan-Novel/dp/0425240339/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1475178085&sr=8-3&keywords=hunt+for+red+october

Red Storm Rising
A book about a hypothetical war between the US and USSR, a lot of Navy stuff in this book.

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Storm-Rising-Tom-Clancy/dp/042510107X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475178124&sr=8-1&keywords=red+storm+rising

Red November

• Gives you an idea of what the CT's and Intel is all about. He could never have released this book in the 90's as a lot of the stuff was classified top secret.
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Red-November-Inside-U-S--Soviet-Submarine/dp/0061806773/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1475178190&sr=8-2&keywords=Red+November
  
  

The Amazon paperback explicitly lists it as a Jack Ryan book, too. No. Not unless there's been a rewrite where Ryan makes a cameo.

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Storm-Rising-Tom-Clancy/dp/042510107X