Archie to SAM - A Short Operational History of Ground-Based Air Defense
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Название: Archie to SAM - A Short Operational History of Ground-Based Air Defense
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Автор: Kenneth P Werrell
Год выпуска: 2012
Формат: PDF
Размер: 5,5 МБ
ISBN: 719295981246
Язык: Английский
СКАЧАТЬ Archie to SAM - A Short Operational History of Ground-Based Air Defense БЕСПЛАТНО EPUB - DOC - DJVU - RTF - PDFОписание: Dr. Kenneth Werrell’s history of ground-based air defense performs an important service both to scholarship and, more importantly, to the defense of our nation’s freedom.It is perhaps human nature that we tend over time to lose sight of the lessons of the past, especially when they do not conform to certain cherished preconceptions of ours.
That such myopia can be dangerous, if not downright disastrous, Dr. Werrell’s study richly illustrates. Without sentimentalism, he chronicles a pattern of lessons learned and too quickly forgotten as the marvel of air power was reminded again and again of its limitations and vulnerability. In Korea and in Vietnam, the American people were stripped of their illusions of national and technical omnipotence.