Funny, how that echoes "Alas Babylon", though the dates were quite a bit off in the book, but the premise the same.
By the way”assessment” meant my personal opinion, my personal “assessment”, nobody was hiring me or paying me to be an expert in the mid and late 1970s.
I used to read like Tom Clancy and was obsessed with that material, I was not surprised during the mid 1980s to learn that I knew a lot and was right, it even raised some suspicious eyebrows on some of the people in the MI Battalion that my unit worked for.
I think Clancy ran into the same problem, “where are you getting this information”?