WMartin%Office-3@sri-unix.UUCP (06/22/83)
From: WMartin at Office-3 (Will Martin) SPACE readers may want to check their local libraries for a new book on space war and military space operations: Karas, Thomas THE NEW HIGH GROUND (Strategies and Weapons of Space-Age War), 1983, Simon and Schuster (Interesting note: the subtitle given above is the one on the dust jacket; the title page of the book has the subtitle "SYSTEMS and Weapons of Space Age War".) The book has sections describing the military and industrial space establishments, the various items of hardware, and the techniques of space-based military operations. There is an interesting bibliographic reference in the introduction. Many of the military Karas interviewed recommended he read a book by DeWitt S. Copp, A FEW GREAT CAPTAINS (Doubleday, 1980). This is a history of five pioneering officers who helped form the US Air Force by splitting it away from the Army. The "spacemen" in the Air Force are looking to it for inspiration for doing the same for a Space Force separate from the USAF. Regards, Will Martin