The Shield Of Faith
The Shield Of Faith
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Chronicles the history of air defense efforts, from the first bombers in World War I, to the rise of radar, the SALT and ABM treaties, and Star Wars.
From Civil War balloons to Star Wars, B Bruce-Briggs chronicles the century long political, military, and technological effort to guard against enemy attacks from the sky. He details the response to the first zeppelins in World War I, the debate about "airpower" in the 1930s, the role of radar in the Battle of Britain, the rise and fall of continental air defense and civil defense in the 1950s and '60s, and the politiTO cs and technology of the Strategic Defense Initiative. THE SHIELD OF FAITH is the untold story of strategic defense---the victories and defeats of the engineers, scientists, soldiers, politicians, and civilian defense analysts whose weapons, technologies, and concepts for the defense of America against enemy attack paved the way to Star Wars.
