Air Defense Recommended Reading List

The Ballistic Missile Threat Handbook by Jack Spencer

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On Air Defense by James D. Crabtree

This book is a study of all aspects of air defense from its beginnings during the French Revolution when artillery gunners tried to hit primitive balloons with their cannons to the use of Patriot missiles in the Gulf War to shoot down tactical ballistic missiles. Crabtree's history focuses on the development of tactics and technology from the Franco-Prussian War to the present. The strategic air defense of World War I and World War II are featured, as are the development of surface-to-air missiles by Germany in World War II and by the United States and the USSR in Vietnam and the Middle East. Amazon Review.

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Air/Missile Defense, Counterproliferation and Security Policy Planning : Implications for Collaboration Between the United States and the Gulf Co-operation counsel by Jacquelyn K. Davis (Editor), Charles M. Perry (Editor), Jamal Al-Suwaidi

Produced by the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, this volume, conveys various dimensions of air and missile defense and security policy planning between the United States and the Gulf Cooperation Council, reads like the manifesto of theater air and missile defense manifesto. The book's chapters are based on updated presentations originally delivered by theater air and missile defense leaders, policymakers, analysts, and scientists at a workshop convened in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in 1998.

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Fighter Command a Study of Air Defense 1914-1960 by Peter Wykeham

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Soviet Ballistic Missile Defense and the Western Alliance by David S. Yost

The former Soviet Union had several programs under development to defend itself from ballistic missile attack. Long before SDI became an issue the Soviets were working on developing a program. An eye-opening book for the naive. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, OR.

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Jane's Land-Based Air Defense 2000-2001 (Janes Land-Based Air Defence 2000-2001 (Print Version)) by Tony Cullen (Editor)

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Strategic Air Defense by Stephen J. Cimbala (Editor)

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Strategic Deception: Rhetoric, Science, and Politics in Missile Defense Advocacy by Gordon R. Mitchell

The Cold War's legacy has been characterized by a systematic pattern of threat inflation, a relentless stream of surplus weapons development, and a predilection for a brand of secret science that lines the pockets of defense contractors and swells the war chests of hawkish politicians-things that fray the fabric of democracy. There is perhaps no military project more representative of this legacy than ballistic missile defense (BMD). Since Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars address" in 1983, taxpayers have spent more than $100 billion on BMD projects. Close examination reveals that many of these programs were of dubious value. Politically seductive but scientifically elusive, the notion of missile defense has given rise to waves of runaway rhetoric featuring technical claims that have outstripped supporting scientific data. Amazon.

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The Origins of SDI, 1944-1983 by Donald R. Baucom

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Pursuit of the Shield : The U.S. Quest for Limited Ballistic Missile Defense by K. Scott McMahon, John Warner

Indispensable Missile Defense Resource

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2001 Ballistic Missile Defense and SDI : Today's U.S. Military "Star Wars" Program - Interceptors, Space Systems, Missile Threats, SDI History, Cox China Report by World Spaceflight News

This comprehensive electronic book on CD-ROM presents 41 official Department of Defense (DOD) and other U.S. government documents covering the vital Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) program for National Missile Defense (NMD), the successor to the original Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Amazon Review.

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Antiballistic Missile Defense in the 1980s by Ian Ballany, Coit D. Blacker

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The Arrow Next Time? : Israel's Missile Defense Program for the 1990s (Policy Papers, No 28) by Marvin C. Feuerwerger

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Ballistic Missile Defense by Ashton Carter

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