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Have also read it, I found most of it quite forgettable. Maybe when it was written ('86) it seemed much more connected to a real world possibility so early readers filled in the gaps with real life happenings / politicians etc. I was reading it in the early 2000's when you had Hillary Clinton presenting Russia with a "reset" button and it almost seemed like we might be on the same side. Maybe that undermined it a bit?
I also didn't find its handing of nuclear threat particularly convincing.
I've not thought about it for years, but perhaps these happenings in Ukraine have shown the whole dynamic wasn't (isn't) as implausible as I thought.
I read it around 1990 and it was an ok thriller, with a somewhat unique play (world war and all) or so I felt back then. Doesn't really remember anything noteworthy except the russkies would have won if they hadn't been like unlucky IIRC (some spy stepping out in the street in front of a car, having like the attack plans or something). The people were totally forgettable.
So yeah, a nice read back then but that's about it.
Yeah, the time period in which it was released definitely plays a part. I just find that anything in the book that isn't geekery about army/navy to be tacked on. Such as the Iceland plot with that woman whose name I cannot care enough about to remember. "Yes, a book probably needs a subplot like that."