Editing Jack Ryan (character) (section)

====''[[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.