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Tango01 | 03 Jun 2020 4:34 p.m. PST |
"For millennia, military commanders at all levels have sought to discover the enemy's intentions, hoping to learn "what was over the next hill." Seeking to avoid strategic or tactical surprise, spies, reconnaissance parties, and other means were used to discern the enemy's intentions. Airpower provided a new way to undertake reconnaissance while breaking the bonds of gravity and soaring above the earth. In From Kites to Cold War: The Evolution of Manned Airborne Reconnaissance, U.S. Air Force Colonel Tyler Morton examines the development of manned aerial reconnaissance from its earliest beginnings through the end of the war in Vietnam. The book is the published version of Morton's doctoral dissertation from Air University. Extensively researched, this volume provides an excellent introduction into the origins and growth of manned airborne reconnaissance and the significant contributions this form of intelligence gathering made to intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), particularly over a period of some two hundred years…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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