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Drone War Vietnam (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526770264)
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xIn their fledgling efforts to send robots instead of human beings on the most dangerous aerial missions, U.S. operators in South-East Asia in the 1960s and '70s wrote the first chapter in the continuing tale of autonomous warfare.
While the use of drones is now commonplace in modern warfare, it was in its infancy during the Vietnam War, not to mention revolutionary and top secret. Drones would play an important--and today largely unheralded--role in the bloody, two-decade U.S. air war over Vietnam and surrounding countries. Drone aircraft spotted targets for manned U.S. bombers, jammed North Vietnamese radars and scattered propaganda leaflets, among other missions. Drone War Vietnam is based on military records, official histories and published first-hand accounts from early drone operators, as well as on a close survey of existing scholarship on the topic.
Author: David Axe
ISBN-10: 1526770261
ISBN-13: 9781526770264
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2021
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.70w x 0.70d
While the use of drones is now commonplace in modern warfare, it was in its infancy during the Vietnam War, not to mention revolutionary and top secret. Drones would play an important--and today largely unheralded--role in the bloody, two-decade U.S. air war over Vietnam and surrounding countries. Drone aircraft spotted targets for manned U.S. bombers, jammed North Vietnamese radars and scattered propaganda leaflets, among other missions. Drone War Vietnam is based on military records, official histories and published first-hand accounts from early drone operators, as well as on a close survey of existing scholarship on the topic.
Author: David Axe
ISBN-10: 1526770261
ISBN-13: 9781526770264
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2021
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.70w x 0.70d
By David Axe
xDavid Axe is a journalist, historian, and former war correspondent. A prolific contributor to The Daily Beast, Vice, Reuters, The Village Voice, The Washington Post, and many other publications, David blogs for Interest as well as for several websites he created. David has written and edited several nonfiction books, most recently the graphic novel war memoir Machete Squad.
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