Electronic Combat and Modern Warfare The Quick and the Dead [Hardcover]

Modern weaponry and warfare have entered a new era where death and destruction are produced electronically and with appalling speed and accuracy. This book shows for the first time how electronic combat and the battle for intelligence are changing every aspect of the battlefield of the future - from nuclear warfare to espionage. It is the first of its kind to show how the new technology and tactics are used, and how they shape strategy and peacetime planning.Acknowledgements - Introduction - List of Illustrations - Military Exploitation of the Electromagnetic Spectrum - Guidance Sensors - Electromagentic Interference and Electromagnetic Weapons - Communications Systems - Electronic Warfare - Soviet Radio-Electronic Struggle - Nuclear War and Electronic Combat - Soviet R.E.B. in Conventional Warfare - The Maturing of U.S. Electronic Combat - Peacetime Electronic Warfare - Electronic Combat and War - Index