Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Tiresome pace, predictable outcome, irresponsible premise.

Barely readable prose, but two things stand out. The major problem I have is believing that the US Government would do something so irresponsible as to sink Chinese subs in international waters without provocation - so what if they blockade the Taiwan Straits or the South China Sea - go around them or send in the MPAs with mad gear and MK 46s. The US was just plain wrong, and stupid, to do that. The second point was minor, but my experience in the military suggests that when a group of admirals get together they don't litter their speech with four letter words the way Admiral Morgan did in the book - that's really declasse, and totally unbecoming of professional flag rank naval officers. This book ranks right down there with R. Karl (Carl?) Largent's stuff.