By Christopher H. Sterling
An alphabetically prepared encyclopedia that offers either a heritage of army communications and an overview of present equipment and applications.
• Over three hundred alphabetically prepared entries overlaying all options in army conversation know-how (in the us and round the world), in addition to key humans, destinations, companies, and signature battles
• Over forty professional contributors―both researchers and practitioners of army communications
• An annotated advisor to easy studying plus additional readings and references for all entries
• word list of key phrases together with acronyms
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Soviet/Russian AWACS Aircraft. Hersham, Surrey, UK: Midland Publishing. Laham, Nicholas. 2002. Selling AWACS to Saudi Arabia: The Reagan Administration and the Balancing of America’s Competing Interests in the Middle East. Westport, CT: Praeger. Tessmer, Arnold Lee. 1998. Politics of Compromise: NATO and AWACS. Washington, DC: National Defense University Press. Airmobile Communications During military operations in South Vietnam in the early 1960s, command and control of tactical forces assumed new importance.
In 1990, they were used extensively to monitor air traffic in South America as part of the antidrug effort. They were also used in the Balkans, most notably during the NATO air campaign against Serbia in 1999. Because the AWACS provides its users with the abilities to coordinate and control air warfare, it has acquired an importance beyond its usefulness over a battlefield. Possession of the AWACS (or denial by refusing sales) is the product of and can affect foreign relations. In the early 1980s, the sale of AWACS aircraft by the United States to Saudi Arabia created a controversy with Israelis.
Laham, Nicholas. 2002. Selling AWACS to Saudi Arabia: The Reagan Administration and the Balancing of America’s Competing Interests in the Middle East. Westport, CT: Praeger. Tessmer, Arnold Lee. 1998. Politics of Compromise: NATO and AWACS. Washington, DC: National Defense University Press. Airmobile Communications During military operations in South Vietnam in the early 1960s, command and control of tactical forces assumed new importance. Military operations conducted by the Viet Cong were mainly hit-and-run tactics against small advisory American units and the South Vietnamese army in jungle areas.
