Military Lessons Of The Falkland Islands War Views From The United States 1st Edition – PDF/EPUB Version Downloadable

Contains analyses of the war by several prominent U.S. experts on national security affairs. Their observations reflect the continuing debate on such key issues in U.S. defence planning – and in Soviet defence planning as well – as the controversy over large versus small carriers, the advantages and dis advantages of a diesel-versus nuclear-powered submarine fleet, the effectiveness of the Harrier-type aircraft, the influence of high technology on amphibious warfare, and the ever increasing use of ‘smart’ weapons by all-purpose convectional armed forces.