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Chasing the Silver Bullet - U.S. Air Force Weapons Development from Vietnam to Desert Storm (Hardcover)
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Chasing the Silver Bullet - U.S. Air Force Weapons Development from Vietnam to Desert Storm (Hardcover)
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Airpower is credited with success in Afghanistan, Desert Storm, and
Serbia, but in Vietnam all of America's aerial might could not
defeat a vastly outnumbered Third World force on bicycles. With a
panoramic sweep and shocking frankness unrivaled in the current
literature, Ken Werrell, one of today's most experienced airpower
historians, reveals the true extent of the technological evolution
that fueled this transformation. Chasing the Silver Bullet traces
in unprecedented detail the evolution of the Air Force's entire
inventory since the Korean War, from the ill-fated F-105
fighter-bomber to the F-117 stealth fighter, but one of its chief
contributions is its analysis of the strategies and doctrine that
fashioned the hardware.
Werrell's exhaustive research and sage analysis challenge the Air
Force's mantra that precision-guided munitions delivered from
long-range, stealthy aircraft are America's true war heroes. Desert
Storm gave us the wrong impression about airpower technology and
Werrell corrects that mistake with this landmark study, rendering
superficial all other books about Desert Storm and current
capabilities.
Objective, even-handed, and unimpressed with the bells and whistles
of new technology, Werrell understands how airpower works.
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