One thing about Red Storm Rising is that the postwar world isn't set up very much, mainly because Clancy intended it to be a one-off novel. So, any ideas about how the postwar world starts to develop? One thing that may happen: A Soviet division or Army commander comes home with a Soviet version of the "stab in the back" a la WW I in Germany, perhaps? There is one parallel: the army is defeated, and yet still occupies enemy territory at the time of the cease-fire. One can also assume that the Warsaw Pact fell apart soon after, and the Soviets decided to go home from Eastern Europe for good. But would the strain of the war, a wrecked Soviet economy, and no doubt restlesss nationalities in the USSR lead to civil strife at the very least? Maybe full-blown civil war in some locales, a la Hackett's Third World War? Have at it, folks, because Clancy sure won't.