Conventional Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles the Answer to Prompt Global Strike (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781288395750)

During June of 2003, Knight Ridder Newspaper's senior military correspondent Joseph L Galloway interviewed General Tommy Franks, the head of US Central Command. General Franks described the beginning of hostilities as follows: "Somewhere 8 to 10 hours before the expiration of the ultimatum, I got a call from General Dick Myers in the situation room of the White House with Don Rumsfield and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director George Tenet. I had with me in Qatar my intelligence people. Information being received that regime leadership was in a particular location; the president took a decision that the location would not be hit before the expiration."1 "The secretary (Rumsfield) asked me if I had the capability to hit such a location. There would be a narrow window between the expiration of the ultimatum and daylight."2 General Franks chose to use F-117s to hit the target. What if General Franks had weapons in his arsenal that could delivery its payload within an hour of tasking?

Author: Michael O. Kinslow
ISBN-10: 1288395752
ISBN-13: 9781288395750
Publisher: Biblioscholar
Language: English
Published: 12/04/2012
Pages: 42
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.21lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.09d