Editing Red Storm Rising (section)

==Development==
[[Tom Clancy]] met [[Larry Bond]] in 1982. The two discussed ''Convoy-84'', a wargame Bond had been working on at the time that featured a new [[Battle of the North Atlantic]]. The idea became the basis for ''Red Storm Rising''. "We plotted out the book together, then, while I researched the military issues, Tom wrote the book," Bond said.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Greenberg |editor-first=Martin H. |date=1992 |title=The Tom Clancy Companion |url=https://archive.org/details/tomclancycompani00clan/page/2/mode/2up/ |location=New York |publisher=Berkley |page=2 |isbn=0-425-13407-5}}</ref> "I'm listed as co-author, but I wrote like 1 percent of the book," Bond stated in a 2013 interview.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/10/11/the-names-bond-larry-bond/ |title=The Name's Bond, Larry Bond |last=Peck |first=Michael |date=2013-10-11 |website=[[Foreign Policy]] |access-date=2022-08-13}}</ref> For research on the Politburo scenes, Clancy and Bond interviewed Soviet defector [[Arkady Shevchenko]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=LaGrone |first1=Sam |title=Interview: Larry Bond on Tom Clancy |url=https://news.usni.org/2013/10/08/interview-larry-bond-tom-clancy |website=USNI News |date=October 8, 2013 |access-date=9 January 2019}}</ref>

Clancy had purchased Bond's [[wargame]] ''[[Harpoon (series)|Harpoon]]'' as a primary source for his future novel ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]'' (1984).<ref name="cgw199807">{{Cite magazine |last1=Sipe |first1=Russell |last2=Wilson |first2=Johnny |last3=Clancy |first3=Tom |last4=Meier |first4=Sid |date=July 1988 |title=An Interview with Tom Clancy |url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1988&pub=2&id=49 |magazine=Computer Gaming World |pages=22–24}}</ref> Clancy and Bond used the board game's second edition miniature rules to test key battle sequences, notably the Soviet operation to seize Iceland and the attack on the carrier battle group in the "Dance of the Vampires" chapter.

=== Dance of the Vampires ===
This refers to the chapter where the Soviets lure a NATO carrier group into a trap and almost manages to wipe it out.<ref name="vice"/>

The game sessions typically involved several players on each side (Clancy among them) acting in various roles.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/tne/pieces/choreographing-dance-vampires |title= Choreographing the Dance of the Vampires|access-date=October 3, 2013|archive-date=May 26, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180526162643/http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/tne/pieces/choreographing-dance-vampires |url-status=dead}}</ref> with Bond refereeing. The games did not influence the outcome — the chapter's ending was already decided — but they gave Clancy and Bond a "better understanding of what factors drove each side's thinking".<ref name="wgv">{{cite web | url= https://www.wargamevault.com/product/140136/Dance-of-the-Vampires | title=Dance of the Vampires - Admiralty Trilogy Group &#124; Wargame Vault }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-trending/harpoon-and-red-storm-rising/ | title=Tom Clancy used this wargame for 'Red Storm Rising' | date=February 5, 2020 }}</ref>

This attention to detail made Vice consider Red Storm Rising a "great example of fictional military history."<ref name="vice">{{cite web | url= https://www.vice.com/en/article/make-believe-battles-that-seem-more-real-than-history/ | title=Make-Believe Battles That Seem More Real Than History | date=May 14, 2018 }}</ref>

The collected and annotated notes on the three Dance of the Vampires scenario playthroughs would later be published by Bond.<ref name="wgv"/><ref>{{cite web | url= https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameaccessory/178155/dance-of-the-vampires | title=Dance of the Vampires }}</ref>