Editing Jack Ryan (character) (section)

===Second Ryan administration===
====''[[Dead or Alive (novel)|Dead or Alive]]'' (December 07, 2010)====
In his retirement, Ryan is living easy with a net worth of over $80 million. He is working on two versions of his [[memoir]]s, one for immediate release, and another detailing his CIA career to be published twenty years after his death. While he is at first publicly silent about his opinion on President Kealty's policies, he becomes increasingly frustrated with the direction in which he is taking the country. Ultimately, he announces that he will come out of retirement to run for a second full term as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] presidential candidate. Despite not being originally involved in the Campus' activities due to his high-profile status, he gradually becomes more directly linked to the Campus' operations, aiding them from behind the scenes on occasion. Here, Ryan learns his son, Jack Jr., is a field operative of the Campus, a fact which he reluctantly accepts.

====''[[Locked On (novel)|Locked On]]'' (December 13, 2011)====
Ryan campaigns against Kealty, facing off against him in various televised debates. It becomes apparent that Ryan will win the election, as the majority of Americans had never entirely accepted Kealty. Despite the efforts of Paul Laska, a high-profile Czech billionaire and a devout enemy of Ryan, and key members of the Kealty administration who labelled Ryan's longtime friend John Clark a fugitive in an effort to expose the Campus (as well as tying Ryan to it by association), Ryan narrowly wins the election, overcoming all of Kealty's efforts to harm him.

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|President = John Patrick Ryan Sr.
|President start = ''Threat Vector''
|President end = present
|Vice President = Richard Pollan
|Vice President start = ''Threat Vector''
|Vice President end = ?
|Vice President 2 = Anthony Hartgrave
|Vice President start 2 = ?
|Vice President end 2 = ''Chain of Command''
|State = Scott Adler
|State start = ''Threat Vector''
|State end = present
|Defense = Robert Burgess
|Defense start = ''Threat Vector''
|Defense end = present
|Justice = Daniel E. Murray
|Justice start = ''Command Authority''
|Justice end = present
|Commerce = Regina Barnes
|Commerce start = ''Threat Vector''
|Commerce end = present
|Homeland Security = Andrew Zilko
|Homeland Security start = ''Threat Vector''
|Homeland Security end = ''True Faith and Allegiance''
|Homeland Security 2 = Mark Dehart
|Homeland Security start 2 = ''Oath of Office''
|Homeland Security end 2 = present
|Chief of Staff = Arnold van Damm
|Chief of Staff start = ''Threat Vector''
|Chief of Staff end = present
|Joint Chief = General David Obermeyer
|Joint Chief start = ''Threat Vector''
|Joint Chief end = ''Command Authority''
|Joint Chief 3 = Admiral Mark Jorgensen
|Joint Chief start 3 = ''Command Authority''
|Joint Chief end 3 = ''Oath of Office''
|Joint Chief 2 = Lieutenant General Jason Paul
|Joint Chief start 2 = ''Oath of Office''
|Joint Chief end 2 = present
|DNI = Mary Patricia Foley
|DNI start = ''Threat Vector''
|DNI end = present
|CIA = Jay Canfield
|CIA start = ''Threat Vector''
|CIA end = present
}}

====''[[Threat Vector]]'' (December 04, 2012)====
Soon after returning to the presidency, Ryan deals with a developing crisis in China, where President Wei Zhen Lin has declared his intentions to annex [[Hong Kong]], [[Macau]], and [[Taiwan]] and expand his country's territory into the [[South China Sea]] in a desperate attempt to recoup his country's economic losses. In reality, [[People's Liberation Army|PLA]] Chairman Su Ke Qiang has been manipulating President Wei for his expansionist policies, secretly sanctioning [[cyber attack]]s on America's infrastructure that compromises the nation's national security apparatus. President Ryan decides to take action by supporting Taiwan, along with [[India]], [[Vietnam]], [[Indonesia]], and the [[Philippines]], which would also be affected by an expansion of China's territory.

The Campus later tracks down the nerve center of China's cyberattacks on the U.S. to an office building in [[Guangzhou]]. President Ryan orders the destruction of the building, decapitating China's cyberwarfare abilities. He makes contact with Wei and warns him that the cyber attacks are considered an act of war on China's part. After realizing that he has been used by Su for his own gain, Wei intentionally divulges information on Chairman Su's whereabouts, which Ryan interprets as a request from the Chinese president to assassinate the military leader. The Campus, with aid from a local rebel force and the [[Federal Security Service|FSB]], later carry out a [[false flag]] attack on Chairman Su's motorcade outside Beijing. Ryan announces a blockade of China's oil supplies until the war effort is abandoned, calling upon Wei and the Politburo to accept defeat. A cornered Wei later commits suicide, eventually ending the conflict between the United States and China.

====''[[Command Authority]]'' (December 03, 2013)====
The Ryan administration then contends with newly elected Russian president Valeri Volodin, who is a dedicated communist seeking to restore Russia to its former glory. Volodin had merged the SVR and the FSB into one entity to be led by enigmatic FSB head Roman Talanov, and later decides to invade [[Ukraine]] all the way to the capital of [[Kyiv]]. President Ryan sends American military forces to counter Russia's advance into Kyiv.

Ryan later finds out that Talanov is Zenith, a KGB assassin from the Cold War. Volodin had been his control officer, and together they had been employed by rogue elements within the KGB, who had an exit strategy in mind with the imminent fall of communism in the late 1980s by siphoning off billions of dollars from Soviet programs. Volodin then double-crossed his co-conspirators by ordering Talanov as Zenith to kill them all, as well as the bankers involved in order to prevent exposure to the rest of the KGB. In addition, Talanov was planted by his boss into Russian crime organization Seven Strong Men, rising in ranks to become its eventual leader and turning it into a tool for Volodin's policies. Ryan uses this information to blackmail the Russian president into stopping the Russian Army's advance into Kyiv. Talanov resigns and is later murdered.

====''[[Full Force and Effect]]'' (2014)====
President Ryan deals with North Korean dictator Choi Ji-hoon, who attempts to start production at a [[rare earth mineral]] deposit found in their territory and then use the resulting billions of dollars in profit to purchase nuclear weapons technology. Choi decides to order the assassination of the American leader (with the aid of a Mexican drug cartel and an Arab bomb maker) in order to stop his persistent interference. During a state visit to [[Mexico City]], Ryan barely survives the attempt on his life. The Campus later uncovers Choi's involvement in the incident, which leads to the dictator being deposed from power and later executed.

====''[[Commander in Chief (novel)|Commander in Chief]]'' (2015)====
Ryan squares off with Volodin once again, as he observes that a series of seemingly isolated attacks in Europe correspond with an increase in Russia's oil profit. He tries to convince NATO, but they dispute his theory, fearing the consequences of an all-out war. Nevertheless, he sends the United States Navy to dispatch its Russian counterpart in the [[Baltic Sea]]. Volodin is later assassinated by the [[siloviki]] after his gambit of a covert violent offensive in an effort to recoup Russia's economic losses fails.

====''[[True Faith and Allegiance]]'' (2016)====
President Ryan faces a crisis where American military and intelligence personnel are being targeted by [[ISIS]]. The specificity of the target packages make it clear that a massive intelligence breach has occurred. President Ryan finds himself pressured by the media and some of his government advisers to send troops into the Middle East to fight the Islamic State terrorists, but he resists and gathers more intelligence. The culprit was later revealed to be a Romanian hacker, who had obtained an old copy of a database containing personal information on military and intelligence personnel. After footage of terrorist attacks released by ISIS inspires a wave of [[copycat crime|copycat attacks]] in the United States, President Ryan orders the bombing of the headquarters of Islamic State's propaganda wing.

Ryan then appears in ''[[Point of Contact (novel)|Point of Contact]]'' (2017) as he attends a funeral for his son Jack Junior's colleague in Hendley Associates, Paul Brown, who was revealed as a former CIA officer who had helped avert a North Korean plot to crash the Asian stock market.

====''[[Power and Empire]]'' (2017)====
Ryan deals with the Chinese once again, as a series of seemingly unrelated attacks in Asia, Europe, and Africa show their involvement. The Campus later discovers that a secret cabal composed of hardliners within the Chinese government are plotting to depose current president Zhao Chengzhi for his moderate stance on several issues of importance. The cabal plans to make Zhao look reckless, provoking Ryan to invoke the Ryan Doctrine and have him killed. Jack Ryan Jr. later prevents an assassination attempt on his father and President Zhao in the [[G20]] summit in [[Tokyo]], and the conspirators are later arrested for treason.

Ryan briefly appears in the next released novel ''[[Line of Sight (novel)|Line of Sight]]'' (2018), where he orders the destruction of a building in [[Bosnia]] containing stolen [[thermobaric weapon|thermobaric warheads]] to be launched by Serb extremists on a [[Serbian Orthodox Church]] event nearby as a false flag attack to provoke war between NATO and the Russians in the [[Balkans]].

====''[[Oath of Office (novel)|Oath of Office]]'' (2018)====
President Ryan is faced with a multitude of crises. A flu epidemic as well as spring floods occur in the southeast United States, and Ryan has to deal with his political rival, senator Michelle Chadwick, who has been attacking him using bot-planted [[fake news]] stories. He sends the Secret Service to protect her from imminent assassination, and an attempt by Russian foreign intelligence was thwarted. President Ryan later delivers a presidential address showing the dangers of fake news. Overseas, Ryan has to deal with Russia plotting to invade Ukraine yet again disguised as a military exercise, as well as the siege of the United States embassy in [[Cameroon]] by the Cameroonian government eager on arresting its opposition leader.

President Ryan expresses caution over a series of protests in Iran, favorably dubbed the Persian Spring. His suspicion was proven true when it was revealed that the leader of the dissidents, Reza Kazem, was a proxy made by the Iranian government on behalf of rogue elements in the Russian government, who have stolen nuclear weapons and are intent on launching them on American military bases in or near Iran. Kazem reneges on his deal and plots to launch the missiles into [[low Earth orbit]], creating [[space junk]] that would destroy several satellites in its path. Ryan orders the destruction of the nuclear defense facility in [[Mashhad]] containing one of the missiles; the other is launched into space but fails to reach its destination at the last minute.

Ryan then appears in the next Jack Ryan Jr. novel ''[[Enemy Contact (novel)|Enemy Contact]]'' (2019). He deals with U.S. senator Deborah Dixon's stonewalling of his proposed foreign policy initiative, which includes building a U.S. military base in Poland to counter Russian aggression to the east. When it was revealed that Senator Dixon's son has unsavory connections to the Chinese, President Ryan blackmails her into passing an anticorruption bill.

====''[[Code of Honor (Cameron novel)|Code of Honor]]'' (2019)====
President Ryan receives a cryptic text message from his friend and former CIA colleague Father Pat West. He warns him of a next-generation [[AI]] program named Calliope, which could be used by the Chinese military to start a conflict with the United States. The Jesuit priest had been imprisoned by Indonesian police for trumped-up charges of blasphemy against Islam, when in fact he had earlier witnessed the murder of an American software engineer who first told him about Calliope.

The chief executive discreetly orders the Campus to investigate Father West's text. Then he calls on the Indonesian president to release his friend, to no avail. Undeterred, he makes a state visit to [[Indonesia]], eventually informing the Indonesian president of China's sinister plans. Father West is eventually released from prison.

Ryan appears in the next Jack Ryan Jr. novel ''[[Firing Point (novel)|Firing Point]]'' (2020). A series of container ships mysteriously disappear across the Pacific Ocean, and President Ryan tries to pinpoint whoever is responsible.

====''[[Shadow of the Dragon (Cameron novel)|Shadow of the Dragon]]'' (2020)====
President Ryan tasks Director of National Intelligence Mary Pat Foley with finding a mole codenamed SURVEYOR within the CIA. He also discreetly orders the Campus to track down Medina Tohti, a [[Uyghurs|Uyghur]] freedom fighter who worked with the missing Chinese engineering professor Liu Wangshu. The professor had been on board the Chinese nuclear [[ballistic missile submarine]] ''Long March'' #880 along the [[Arctic Ocean]], which had suffered an engine fire that burned most of its crew. President Ryan eventually informs the Chinese president about the submarine, allowing him to rescue its crew.