I thought Clancy was a conservative but he is a lib. Cast libs in all his movies.
He actually mostly donates to Republicans. Vary rarely do authors and script writers get a lot of say in casting. They get a check for the rights to their work, that’s about it. (His address is the Huntingtown one below, I don’t know if the Baltimore is also him)
His wife is Alexandra Llewellyn, Colin Powell's niece. I bet family gatherings were interesting, like the rest of us, during the election;)
A quote on wikipedia from him says, “Ive made up stuff thats turned out to be real, thats the spooky part. I like writing. It's the most fun I've ever had at anything. You can build your own little world and like a kid with his toy trains, except instead of trains I have tanks and ships and airplanes and things... I get to make them do all the things I want them to do, and if I don't like the way things work out, I start again. The information is all out there, if you go looking for it, and the classified stuff just comes from analyzing the unclassified stuff and connecting the dots.”
(Sounds like he could be a FReeper, connecting the dots and all)
It does make one wonder what “dots” he connected to come up with Rainbow Six though.....Scary times.
The ending is totally sweet;)