Royal Navy in the Falklands Conflict and the Gulf War
Subtitle: Culture and Strategy (Cass Series--British Politics and Society)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: June 18, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780714654799
Subjects: Naval forces & warfare; Royal Navy; Middle East - General; Great Britain.; History - General History; Persian Gulf War, 1991; Military; Naval operations, British; Military - Naval; History / Military / Naval; Great Britain; 20th century; Falkland Islands War, 1982; History
First sentence: In this high-technology age of cruise missiles, satellite-guided bombs and depleted-uranium tank shells,1 surprisingly, given the limitations of the flesh, people are still the most important elements in warfare.