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Dewey Decimal Number: 355.0215 EAN: 9780891415336 Edition: Rev Sub ISBN: 0891415335 Label: Presidio Press Manufacturer: Presidio Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 340 Publication Date: February 25, 1998 Publisher: Presidio Press Studio: Presidio Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Recent events in Somalia and Bosnia have shown the profound limitations of massive firepower in limited conflicts. Yet these are precisely the kinds of wars America is most likely to encounter in the future. Now, Robert H. Scales, Jr. examines this problem by analyzing the role of firepower in the wars in Indochina, the Gulf War, and elsewhere. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Best examination of intelligence-firepower disconnectsMajor General Bob Scales may well be the Army's brightest light and this generation's successor to General Don Starry and Dan Morelli (who inspired the Toffler's book on War and Anti-War). First published by the National Defense University Press in 1990, this book reflects deeply on the limitations of firepower in limited war situations, and the conclusion is a telling indictment of our national intelligence community and our joint military intelligence community, neither of which is willing ... Read More Rating: - Both invaluable and fascinating.MGen. Scales provides the world with a fascinating study of man's recent relationship to technology. I enjoyed the book and wrote many things in the margins. MGen. Scales shows how firepower was used and countered in the French and U.S. tials in Viet Nam, during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, during British actions on the Flaklands and through U.S. Army/Air Force combined operations against Iraq. Not dry or technical, this book weaves the moral aspect of war with the effects of ... Read More 
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