Talk:The Coming War with Japan

married
Near the beginning, we are given the impression that the authors are two independent academics. Not until the second last paragraph do we learn that they are husband and wife. Not, of course that there is anything wrong with that: many fine books have been written by such couples. But it is relevant information, and may leave one (well me at least) with the impression that such a provocative, contraversial book was not written from pure independent motives. baska436 101.187.174.16 (talk) 09:36, 5 April 2021 (UTC)


 * I wanted to put the fact that they were married earlier. My problem was finding any information about when they were married. Reading the transcript of their CSPAN Booknotes interview they don’t mention being married and, indeed, appear to be hiding the fact by pretending to be married to other people (eg LeBard simply says she is married to “an American citizen”, and omits to mention that the citizen she is talking about is sitting across the table from her). It appears they may have worried that the book wouldn’t be taken seriously if people knew it was written by a husband and wife team. But the article can only state what reliable source show, which is that they are married now, and were married as early as the mid-1990's. I couldn’t find any source explicitly showing that they were married when they wrote the book. I also could not say that they were married after writing the book as nothing says this either. This is a BLP situation so I don’t think we should state that they were married when they wrote the book unless a source says this. FOARP (talk) 04:40, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Tom Clancy book
Out of interest, do any RS discuss whether this book had an influence on Tom Clancy? His book Debt of Honor appears to have some similarities and was published a few years after this work. Nick-D (talk) 23:33, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
 * - Haven't seen anything saying so. At a guess I'd say they were just part of the same early-1990's phenomenon (US anti-Japanese sentiment/rivalry) but if you can find some sources linking them that'd be interesting. FOARP (talk) 17:32, 13 May 2021 (UTC)