Review: Mil-tech heavy foray
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 2, 2014
Taiwan has been a thorn in the side of the PRC for decades, and "Fourth Crisis" is an attempt to examine a military resolution a la "Red Phoenix" and "Red Storm Rising".  Leaving aside the issue of plausibility, those books wove military technologies into their stories in a way that the average reader could follow.  Mr. von Bleichert falls a bit short in that department, IMHO.  He rattles off the names of weapons systems like machine gun bullets, with little regard for the reader's comprehension.  Characters are poorly developed, and even the political consequences of this crisis are vague.  This could have been much better.