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^Xrprise Attack: Lessons for efense Planning
Bront-^ ^ Betts. Washington, DC: The Not ngs Restitution, 1982. 318 pp. Figs, (t.®:™' $24.95 ($22.45) cloth. $9.95 paper.
Nav'e|Wet* ^ Captain Roger Pineau, U. S. al Reserve (Retired)
theHenry Kissinger recently said, “ . . . em W°rSt tk'n8 ^at can happen to a gov- p ,ment is to look as if it did not foresee a forth1'3* catastrophe.” That goes double ■jr ® outbreak of war by surprise attack. Sett °re’ We arc indebted to Richard K. Po S’ 3 sen'or fellow in the Brookings arritv ^ P°licy Studies program, for the (jooi|tloUs undertaking of this timely
(je^H^dering the time and effort being re l°ted to surprise attack in classified cont"5 Deportment of Defense and pac,ract°r “think tanks,” this densely ful f6C*’ '3ut competent handbook is helper the deserving taxpayer.
Sue first half of the book analyzes why the nSC attacks have succeeded during fore**^' ^ years> and, indeed, long be- and ' °^ers 8°°d coverage, evaluation, eVent'erSPeCt'Ve 'n a fa'r cross-section of are fS’ °P*n'ons> and conclusions. There ipp inaccuracies, but the impression ‘‘■p, "e corrected that at Pearl Harbor Nay6 .kbone of the prewar U. S. lay k ~7*ts complement of battleships— Onlv' - n on 'be bottom of the harbor.” then ,n'ne U. S. battleships were and t*1C Pacific (one at Puget Sound), Q°Ur best five were in the Atlantic, styje 6,Can urgue matters of degree and ance a°out tke posit that the major alli- °ther °*- Past ar|d West today face each bisto 'Vlt*1 Octree levels and readiness tinie^3*1^ unprecedented in peace- gar(j' There is also room for debate re- ln§ the author’s view that the Amerian<?'thCnCe °i war wiih Japan in 1941, at the attack on Hawaii was not a true “bolt from the blue,” nor a pure example of unprovoked perfidy. These are small matters, however, compared with the broad sweep and compass of this thought-provoking work. There are several self-contained essays, such as “The Focus on the Order of Battle,” which, for their clarity and succinctness, are alone worth investing in the book.
The analyses drawn from the first half of the book are applied in the latter half to the future planning problems of the United States and its allies. There are occasional bows toward Asia and the Middle East, but most of the coverage goes to the NATO-Warsaw Pact confrontation, which is reasonable since only those two entities have the power to destroy the world as we know it. It is prudent, nevertheless, to keep in mind the potential of lesser powers to create mischief which could spread and involve the superpowers.
Betts covers a lot of ground in defining the contexts of surprise. He examines various military modes in detail, constantly aware of the function of perception in determining a government’s reactions to intelligence and behavior. Particularly noteworthy is his recurring treatment of the functional problems confronting intelligence systems that have to serve high-level decision-makers in real- life situations.
If this work has a central theme, it is that of deterrence as the governing condition in the calculus of surprise. “As confidence in deterrence goes up, the defense’s dependence on early response to warnings should go down”; this is only a small part of a complex and sophisticated situation, but it is an essential truth. This book provides rewarding reading for anyone interested in the strategic Rubik’s Cube of today’s global strategic condition.
The author uses comments and criticism from a distinguished group of first- rate authorities. His footnotes are complete, informative, and the referenced works almost unexceptionably excellent. It is unfortunate that he felt obliged to cite Gordon Prange’s overblown At Dawn We Slept (McGraw Hill, 1981) several times when the primary source in each case was the congressional hearings on the Pearl Harbor attack. The 39 volumes of the congressional hearings and report on the Pearl Harbor attack, incidentally, are referred to as “the definitive record” on the subject. That may have been true as of their publication date, but it has since become clear that those volumes were far more partisan and selective than complete and thorough.
The index is inadequate to the wealth of the text, but this is probably inevitable when an author leaves the indexing to another. A bibliography would have enhanced this book’s value with its rich sources, but it must have fallen victim to publishing economics.
Betts worked in a footnote mention of the April 1982 Falkland Islands affair which was unfolding as this book went to press, deftly providing opportunity for the reader to apply some of the book’s principles to that recent situation.
Captain Pineau is a naval historian and Japanese linguist. He was assistant to Samuel Eliot Morison on the 15-volume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II and translated and edited the Naval Institute’s Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan, The Japanese Navy’s Story, and The Divine Wind. He also served as the director of the Naval Memorial Museum. /
Female Soldiers—Combatants or Noncombatants? Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Nancy Loring Goldman, Editor. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982. 307 pp. Ind. Bib. $35.00 ($31.50).
Reviewed by Eric McAllister Smith
Will women crack in combat?
This question is at the core of every discussion of females in the armed forces;
all generals, admirals, and defense officials want to know the answer to it before they press for more moves to mix women with men in combat units.
This book does not answer that question. No book can. The issue of a female’s fitness for combat will be settled only after she is committed to action in a modem war. Even then, she must be tested against a standard so objective that neither pro-female sentiment nor traditional male bias can alter its result.
U. S. NAVY (WARREN GRASS)
In an age of push-button warfare on intercontinental battlefields, can females be excluded from combat on the basis of being the “weaker sex?”
Until that time, military planners will have to make do with the already-known information on the subject. There seems to be no lack of evidence, at least from the record of 20th century conflicts, that women can fight: the all-female 586th Interceptor Regiment in the Soviet Union, for example, flew Yak fighters, shooting down 38 German planes during World War II, and trained female snipers logged more than 11,000 Wehrmacht troops into their kill-books. Not far away, female partisans in Yugoslavia shared every risk with males, including tank assaults, evacuation of wounded under fire, and forced marches to escape capture.
During the Vietnam fighting, U. S. troops faced guerrillas in coastal villages
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as well as Main Force Vietcong units with female auxiliaries who went with the men into jungle combat.
Soviet statistics listed in Female Soldiers—Combatants or Noncombatants? might be open to question, but the other data leave little question that communist high commands in general gave women more direct combat roles than their Western counterparts. Irregular warfare offered women some chances to go into action in the West, too, where many allied intelligence agencies employed female field agents on a scale almost unknown to—and so unopposed by—the public.
Both communist and democratic armed services, however, reverted to old patterns when the shooting stopped. Women had been reluctantly committed to combat only inside their own countries during foreign invasions or wars of national liberation; after the threat passed, so also did women’s opportunities to serve in combat.
The book brings out this fact time and again. Even in Israel, where the image of Uzi-toting female Sabra soldiers is an international symbol of military equality, women are conscripted but still closed out of combat jobs. The official ambivalence toward fighting women is expressed in the words of Aviva Zuckoff: “Whenever Jewish survival is at stake, Jewish women are called upon to be strong and aggressive. When the crisis is over, it’s back to patriarchy.” A similar exploitive attitude echoes in the section on Great Britain, where the author states that “the military was perfectly happy to have the services of women, but not enthralled with having women in service.”
Despite such a wealth of insight and information, Female Soldiers is poor in writing skills. It reads less like a unified account than a series of separate status reports assembled for study purposes, which in fact it was. As a result of a 1980 symposium sponsored by the Inter-university Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, the United States and several foreign countries presented papers which became chapters in this book. Its academic origins are obvious from the distinguished list of contributors, but unfortunately much of value is buried under impenetrable jargon and what critics label “social science Choctaw.”
But the book’s flaws only partially interfere with its steady flow of facts showing how often and how well women have served under arms. Indeed, Female Soldiers cites so many present and past examples of women fulfilling combat missions that readers might wonder why argument over the issue continues. However, throughout the book there runs the thread of another, more serious military dispute only partially related to apparea sexism in the armed services. Althoug not clearly defined in the pages of this book, the persistent debate over the ap plications of technology appears in many forms and directly affects the future ro e of women in combat.
In the last, and by far most informa tive, part of Female Soldiers, the hidde issue surfaces in Mary Wechsler Sega article when she says that today’s air33 sea combat jobs “require technical ski ^ not physical strength.” The effects defects of menstruation, pregnancy, UP per body strength, and female psycholOr ical conditioning can be discussed in m tion to infantry combat, yet these c acteristics may be of lesser import3
modem electronic instruments of war .
Both sides of the debate are aired m book’s final section, but in an age push-button warfare over intercontinen battlefields, the real question to ask 1 whether females can reasonably be . eluded from combat services on the has of their being the “weaker sex."
Mr. Smith was an Army intelligence officer in nam. He earned his law degree from Georg
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The Cuban Threat
Carla Anne Robbins. McGraw Hill Book Co., 1983. 351 pp. Illus. $17.95($l6-l5)‘
Reviewed by First Lieutenant William Meara, U. S. Army Reserve
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In the current rhetorical war over ^ tral American policy, the phrase, viet-Cuban threat” is used so frequen ,, that the distinction between the “Cuban and the “Soviet” becomes extreme blurred. Carla Anne Robbins of ^uS‘n^ Week magazine offers an effective 3 convincing challenge to the notion ^ Cuba is, and always will be, serving “the Gurkha of the Soviet Empire-
The Cuban Threat is not, as the 11 might imply, an order of battle report Cuban military and intelligence assets- is an insightful analysis of the evolutm of Cuban foreign policy, a post-' a Third World diplomatic history, an critique of U. S. policies toward Cu • the Caribbean, and Central America-
Robbins traces Cuba’s foreign from Castro’s early efforts to overt’l/°rS his dictatorial right-wing neighb0^ through periods of alternatingly aggr sive and cautious international postu
^his evolution is influenced by the poli- les of both the United States and the ,let Union as well as by all of the tu- rv tU?US events of the last two decades: Yylna s cultural revolution, the Vietnam ar’ l^e Chilean coup, and the Prague
j e author provides an illuminating °f Cuba’s African activities. Ser .rom proving Cuba’s complete sub- £*** to Moscow, Robbins uses the str t 31n 3nt* Ethiopian cases to demon- TU h ^'U'5a s independence within the (jia." ^orld. At one point in the Angolan Vl War, Havana and Moscow backed P°sing factions; Moscow eventually (-■L?w 'n with the Cubans. In Ethiopia, tin 3 S concern about its diplomatic posi- it ,n aniong Third World states prevented reh^r* 0vert^y intervening in the Eritrean hay6 h°n’ ^h'le Soviet interests may ce °een served by such an intervention, jta ^ad its own interests in mind when e used to put down a nationalistic in- vpcndence movement.
that °^’ns seeks to debunk the notion des '-If- ^u*1ans are Soviet pawns. After years of often bitter Soviet- s(an arguments over revolutionary to t,c8y and ideological purity, she points anal 6 ^''Israeli relationship as being shi °^t°US t0 fhe Soviet-Cuban partner- staf'h both cases, a small, dependent den6 °e^aves with considerable indepen- henCf CVen t0 t*le P°int °f angering the ofhe actor- Castro apparently got a taste fi !s °Wn medicine when he found it dif- t to control his Ethiopian allies.
Cub° ^'nS faults U- S. policy toward °n fa,and Eatin America for being based a se assumptions about the nature of chalT*1 'nternat'°nal behavior. Having hav' en®CC* myths that she sees as years ^ 8U'dcd U. S. policy for the past 20 S’ goes on to propose a
UpW P°licy” for the United States based tjr, n a realistic appraisal of Cuban ambi- °JS and capabilities.
Spjjt°- ^'ns suggests that a Soviet-Cuban ties- *S n0t beyond the realm of possibility lndee(^’ si*c points out that the asan-Soviet connection has never been Usas U. S. ideologues would have
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tion C -V’ misperception of the situa- da_ *n our own backyard’ ’ may be more Ani^erous than AKs or MiGs in Central last tlCa' bobbins points out in her mayparagraph, “The real Cuban threat Unft ,e the reaction that forces the With6 ■ ^tates into untenable alliances Unit fi'8ht win2 regimes, involves the lega]C States in unpopular and often il- ntanv °ver.seas entanglements, alienates pre, .8 its citizens and undercuts its ' ’^e abroad. The real Cuban threat may well come from within the United States.”
Lieutenant Meara was graduated from Manhattan College in 1981 with a bachelor of arts degree in International Studies. He is a freelance writer and has worked in Mexico, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. In the Army Reserve, he serves on the A team of the 11th Special Forces Group (Airborne).
Steaming to Bamboola
Christopher Buckley. New York: St.
Martin’s Press, 1982. 222 pp. $14.95 ($13.45) hard. $7.95 ($7.15) paper.
Reviewed by Captain Morgan P. Ames,
U. S. Naval Reserve (Retired)
In Steaming to Bamboola, Christopher Buckley (William F. Buckley’s only child) may have outstripped the master! Here is a fascinating book of the sea and the men of the merchant navy who dare it, hate it, usually master it, and often find it “the greatest cemetery in the world” (e.g., in World War II more than 5,000 of them perished).
With the storytelling skill of a modem Joseph Conrad, the young author (now speech writer for Vice President George Bush) takes us on board the 12,420-ton, 523-foot tramp steamer SS Columbianna. Kaiser built her in 1945 as a troop ship for the invasion of Japan, but since then she had alternately banged around the world carrying all kinds of cargo, ending up in mothballs.
Now, in November 1979, she slips her lines at Charleston, South Carolina, for a two-week passage “across the pond” past “Bamboola” (as the old Chinese steward pronounced Bermuda), and the Azores and the Lizard to Bremerhaven, and then back through the English Channel to New Orleans.
We are briefed on what happens to a U. S. ship trapped in an Iranian port during the Khomeini revolution; what happens when a nuclear sub hits a pinnacle rock formation in the ocean; the force 12 gale, the second worst the elderly third mate, Mr. Dexter, had ever seen; how to navigate the Southwest Pass in the Mississippi; and how to tie up after the 5,917-mile trip from Bremerhaven, 14 days and 5,443 barrels of $23.50 bunker C fuel oil later.
Even more fascinating are the biographical and psychological descriptions of the men who sailed the Columbianna. They include Yoya, the Puerto Rican chief cook; Captain Digby Lee, 32 years at sea; Mr. Dexter, who kept holy water in his cabin; “Pooch” Puchinelli, the able-bodied seaman; “Slim” and “Gut”; Higgin, the ex-Navy nuclear submariner, who went ashore in a tweed jacket and pink button-down shirt and visited art museums instead of whorehouses; taciturn Second Mate Burke; Rocco, the exSEAL; and the rest of the hard-bitten crew.
This series of character sketches and the vignettes of their checkered pasts are an absorbing study of human nature in the raw. For this cultured Yale graduate, brought up in fashionable Wallacks Point, Stamford, Connecticut, to live among them, get inside their thick skulls, learn their stories, and spin their yams, is a tribute to his gregarious qualities as well as to his superb literary craftsmanship.
The author had crossed “the pond” at least twice on sailboats, but this time he is on a rustbucket with the nomads of the world’s ocean highways, most from orphan backgrounds, usually misfits in the pedestrian lifestyle ashore.
Anyone who has gone down to the sea in ships—and even armchair sailors— will want to read this book.
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CONWAY’S
1947-1982
Atlas of ‘he 20th Century
198^1 ^at*C'e*' ^ew York: Facts on File, Inc.,
256 pp. mus. Maps. Ind $29.95 ($26.95).
2(^1JUst an atlas, this book features more than j maPs hy Mr. Natkiel which trace the mili- e<nt Ttf events from 1900 to the pres-
i j 'he key military campaigns are covered, to th tbe Batt*es at sea> k°m ‘he Boer War e , e kalklands Conflict. The text supporting the h ma^ 'S conc*se and informative, making riod 'i0^ an outstanding history text of the pe- and'i 4”e maps are alive with color, symbols, Th making them easy to interpret,
read *, ra* use °f photographs enhances the er s appreciation of events.
Hi«entUry Naval Construction: The p °‘ ‘he Royal Corps of Naval nstructors, 1883-1983
Ltd^ iuv°Wn' koadon: Conway Maritime Press Annr * 384 PP- Ulus. Gloss. Ind. £20.00. PProx. $32.00 ($28.80).
Rovb|iShed *n by Queen Victoria, the
resn Corps Naval Constructors has been shin°nSiblc ^or ‘Be design of British fighting the^S 6Ve.r s'nce- This book tells the story of ins <tKI^>S many notablc achievements, includ- first r,e t!es*8n °f HMS Dreadnought and the deal nt'Sb a‘rcraft carrier. Although the book "'ill fWldl a technical subject, non-engineers of d *fa readable and interesting chronicle 0fBnttsh sea power.
j * f-ivil War Almanac
Pile Kjso°Wman’ Editor. New York: Facts on
Civ ] S2 400 PP' IUuS' I"d' $19'95 ($17 95)- this* buBs wiH enjoy browsing through ify ore,erence hook, as well as using it to ver- the b^ ?Cate information. The main section of niftc °°b cPntains a day-to-day account of sig- War^11 War events. Sections on Civil Pants Cap°ns an|f biographies of major partici- of q- are included, as well as a short account desigVl ^ar naval engagements, and warship addit'05” and caPabilities. This is an excellent •°n to any home or reference shelf.
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ping°jU^b tBe use °f convoys to protect ships as old as ocean travel itself, the advent
of the submarine as an effective instrument of naval warfare caused the revival and evolution of the convoy system as we know it today. This book takes us through the trials of World Wars I and II as the allies struggled to keep the vital flow of war materials open across the sub-infested waters of Europe and the Atlantic. Eyewitness accounts of attacks on convoys by submarines and surface raiders are presented. The problems of both the hunters and the hunted as each tried to destroy the other are of particular interest, as are the personalities of the commanders who fought convoy battles.
[0 Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships, 1947-1982
Robert Gardiner, Editor. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1983. 298 pp. Ulus. $34.95 ($27.96).
Part of a new series of naval reference books, this work is part one of a two-part volume which covers the navies of the Western powers. (Part II will cover the Warsaw Pact nations and the remainder of the world, as well as the index for both parts). There is a section for each nation which contains an assessment of fleet strength in 1947 and subsequent introductions of new design/class. Six major ship divisions are covered: major surface, submarines, amphibious, small surface, mine warfare, and miscellaneous. Data are presented in tabular format. Photographs and drawings of ship classes are included for destroyer-size and larger ships.
Death Before Dishonor: The True Story of Fighting Mac
Trevor Royle. New York: St. Martin’s Press,
1983. 176 pp. Illus. $14.95 ($13.45).
In the 49 years of his life, Sir Hector Macdonald became a Victorian legend: an enlisted man of humble origins who rose to the knighthood and the rank of major general. In 1902, Britain was shocked to learn that the hero of a dozen battlefields had shot himself to death in a Paris hotel room, apparently to escape an investigation of his sexual habits. This rather breathless but sympathetic biography examines the circumstances of his life and suicide.
Defense Foreign Affairs Handbook, 1983
Gregory R. Copley, Editor. Washington, DC: Defense and Foreign Affairs, Ltd., 1983. 943 pp. Tables. Maps. $117.00 ($105.30).
This edition contains the standard reference data (political, economic, and defense) on every country in the world. Eight major topics are presented for each country (history, general information, political, economic, news media, defense, defense production, and major embassies abroad) as well as current political leaders and ministers. Separate sections are included—defense production, a series of reference chapters and tables, and an atlas section.
F-18 Hornet
Don Linn. Fallbrook, CA: Aero Publishers, Inc., 1982. 71 pp. Illus. $7.95 ($7.15).
In presenting the F-18 Hornet in detail and scale, volume VI in a series which includes the F-III Aardvark and the F-5E Tiger II is billed as the first book ever published on the F/A-18. Physical details of the aircraft, such as cockpit design, avionics, armament, and ejection system, are emphasized. For those interested in models, a section is provided that features model kits and available decals. Charts and tables provide the technical data.
Fighting For Time
William C. Davis, Editor. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1983. 464 pp.
Illus. Ind. $39.95 ($35.95).
Volume IV of the National Historical Society’s massive project, The Image of War: 18611865, contains more than 650 Civil War photographs by the actual correspondents on both sides. This volume deals primarily with the
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General Secretary the Communist of the USSR
By Martin Ebon
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The armored battleships of the world are undoubtably the most awe-inspiring vessels ever to have sailed the seas. Progressively more heavily armored and more powerfully gunned throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, these giants among warships ruled the oceans for some 75 years.
In this superb volume Tony Gibbons has chronicled the history of every one of the 324 classes of battleships and battlecruisers that were designed between the introduction of the first ironclad—the French Gloire— in 1860 and the appearance of the Soviet Union’s 25,000-ton rocket cruiser Kirov in 1980. Each entry includes tabular data on launch and completion dates, builder, dimensions, engines and performance, armament, armor, crew, and other ships in the class. The main text brings out important aspects of the design and reveals how the ship’s performance measured up to its specification. Service career details are also given, and major re-refits and conversions are fully explained.
What is more remarkable is that Tony Gibbons has also painted a representative of every class of battleship in immaculate detail—the majority in full color—so that for the first time, an accurate visual record of these splendid ships is available to the public in a single volume. This is a unique work of reference that all naval enthusiasts will want to own.
1983/272 pages/over 1,000 black & white and color illustrations/index
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Space Shuttle: America’s Wings to the Future, 2nd Edition By Marshall H. Kaplan
Here is the how, what, when, and why of NASA's space shuttle. The system and its parts are described in everyday terms. Every phase of a typical mission is presented, including preparation and training of the crew, loading of the payloads, the sensation of liftoff and acceleration upwards, extravehicular activities in orbit, and the exciting re-entry and landing benefits are reviewed, both from the introduction of the National Spaceline and from spaceflight in general.
Called one of the most comprehensive books on the subject available to the public, Space Shuttle has now been updated and revised to reflect recent changes in the program. New photographs taken from actual launches are included.
1983/216 pages/197 black & white and color illustrations index/appendices/7Vz" x 11".
Andropov differs from his predecessors, — ^rc- rivals: he literally towers over the rest of ^ en1 leaders, a tall, scholarly-looking man, coo matic. 6o Ipe
Martin Ebon, author or editor of more than ^ and a longtime student of Soviet affa ’
well-mannered, polite but pitiless. His 7e‘Lnot- chief have given Andropov details and insign® ^ able to anyone else in the Soviet hierarchy- the United States as the Soviet Union's prirTI jjj >
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The Wildcat in World War II
By Barrett Tillman
Here for the first time is a full-length operational history of the U. S. Navy’s carrier-based fighter that held the line during the 20 months following Pearl Harbor.
Meticulously researched using Grumman and official Navy records, consultations with the individuals directly associated with the design, and interviews with numerous combat pilots, Wildcat is a noteworthy addition to the literature of World War II and a definitive account of an important combat aircraft.
1983/320 pages/113 illustrations/bibliography
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At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor By Gordon W. Prange
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1983/141 pages/notes.
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1983/464 pages/725 illustrations
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Skyraider: The Douglas A-1 “Flying Dump Truck”
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1982/239 pages/151 illustrations/appendices/iri
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th^L’13' ^*le Media, the Government and the Falklands Crisis
Rnu!!1 !larns' Winchester, MA: Harper and T . ' 1983- 176 pp. Ind. $5.95 (paper) ($5.35).
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The Intelligent Layperson’s Guide to The Nuclear Freeze and Peace Debate
Joyce E. Larson and William C. Bodie. New York: National Strategy Information Center, Inc., 1983. 65 pp. $2.95.
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Albert L. Weeks and William C. Bodie, Editors. New York: National Strategy Information Center, Inc., 1983. 51 pp. Illus. $1.95. $3.95 a set.
These companion booklets offer the reader an opportunity to gain significant perspective in one sitting on the freeze issue and Soviet views on nuclear war, arms control, and the use of military force. Layperson’s Guide features 20 key questions and answers as the vehicle to examine this pertinent issue. War and Peace: Soviet Russia Speaks presents 95 quotations and statements from the Soviet Union’s top political and military leaders on a variety of topics.
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Marshall H. Kaplan. Fallbrook. CA: Aero Publishers, Inc., 1983. 224 pp. Illus. Append.
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