A rare insider's look at life aboard the greatest weapon ever created...the aircraft carrier.Tom Clancy is your guide on a mind-blowing tour of the US Navy's crown jewel, meeting its crew, viewing its aircraft and understanding why it dominates the high seas. Floating cities manned by thousands, aircraft carriers are the lynchpin of any military strategy, for the air superiority they enable has been the key to every battle fought since World War I. Their mere presence is an automatic display of strength, sending a message no potential enemy can ignore.Clancy's trademark style and eye for detail brings you naval combat strategy as no one else can, from takeoffs into the danger zone to return from missions, the range, power and weaponry of the aircraft on board to the carrier's role in modern warfare.