Wiring Vietnam: The Electronic Wall
Beginning in the late 1960s, the US military began a program called Igloo White, deploying a network of sensors, orbiting aircraft, monitoring devices, technicians, and computing equipment designed to detect and track enemy movements in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Thoroughly approving of this electronic wall both in concept and in practice, Tambini (a retired aerospace technical and logistics field representative) details its underlying technologies and describes how they were deployed and utilized in theater. He argues that the system was a significant success in disrupting the logistics of the North Vietnamese and their allies, even if it was a success within the midst of a failed war. (Reference and Research Book News, August 2007)