I may be alone in this... I like the Bogota info more than I like the gear.
More gear and stuff is nice, but if I wanted a game that focused on digging out the best & most awesome gear to kill things with, I'd still be playing DnD. I buy these books for story, baby, a generic 100+ "here's the military stats and capabilities of the major players" book? Yawn. I'm not playing Warhammer 40k, either. A Shadowrun book needs a story to move, even the core supplements break 50/50 on story and "stuff", even if the story is broken into broad subjects (magical groups, network topology), it's still story.
I think, honestly, the biggest problem with War! is that they named it "War!", I barely pay attention to the product announcements and I knew it was a book about a specific war, centered around Bogota. If you expected something other than 70% Bogota, you had your head in the sand.
I like toys as much as the next runner, but it's not what gets me to buy books. I consider buying PDFs for the gear, but I'll wait and see what some of the people I trust on this forum have to say about Mil-Spec Tech before grabbing it. There seemed like a little much in the way of power creep in War!, and this game doesn't need more of that.