The Quick and the Dead: Electronic Combat and Modern Warfare

Library Journal

Munro, a reporter for Defense News, attempts to do two things for the nonspecialist: describe the use of electronics in warfare and compare the U.S. and Soviet approaches. He succeeds in doing neither well. The research is not used to good effect, and the presentation is often repetitious, passionate, and difficult to follow. Casual readers will not be helped to understand what was so recently successful in Iraq, and the informed reader will need to look further. Much could have been made of the topic; little both recent and comprehensive is available to the layperson outside the periodical literature. Not recommended.-- Edward Gibson, MSLS, Flemington, W.Va.

Booknews

Written just before the war with Iraq, and before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, this volume explains clearly how electronic combat is changing ground, air, and naval warfare as well as peacetime conflicts and the secret world of espionage. It also explains the Soviet military's strategy of "Radioelectronic Struggle" and its future weapon, the reconnaissance-strike complex. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)