Tom Clancy's SSN

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

Originally Posted by Grayback

The end of the kill-fest actually struck me rather well - it seemed that Clancy actually had your two choices and thought that the first one was more of a "Hollywood Ending" sort of resolution, whereas the other (and chosen) one was anti-climactic and a reminder that war doesn't follow a script with a satisfying ending.

That would have been acceptable, if he hadn't been writing a killfest right up to that point.