You make good points.
On that line, suppose Bissonnette shows up as the technical advisor on that movie?
Bissonnette retired out on 20 April 2012, certainly the book was finished and at the publisher before then with all kinds of unauthorized workers looking the book over while he was still under contract and subject to the UCMJ.
I read books. It's my primary entertainment source.
I purchase my books, sometimes hardbacks, but mostly I restrain myself and wait for the secondary release of the paperback editions, or buy them at used bookstores.
Electronic books have turned the publishing industry on its head.
Read any of the “current events” type books, and you will notice all the Microsoft Word spellcheck problems.
OTOH, most authors outline to published book timeline, has been shortened to mere days, not the previous many months.
Obviously it takes a lot longer for reliable peer reviewed reference level manuals of serious and weighty topics.
This is just a first person account of a historically notable event. As I understand the outline (I have not yet read the book) it includes some color background to set the stage for readers unfamiliar with a little known lifestyle.
BTW, I am supposedly subject to the UCMJ for 25 years after my death, as far as publishing my own memoirs goes.
Carter wiped that kind of secrecy away, so I don't need Federal oversight before I openly talk about certain mission plans I wrote, but that were never activated.
I don't and wont. But that is not the same thing as this instance.
The Feds already declassified this mission to the public.