Dirty Little Secrets: Military Information You're Not Supposed to Know - Hardcover

Dunnigan, James F.; Nofi, Albert A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688089488 ISBN 13: 9780688089481

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1990

Synopsis

Experts reveal where our tax dollars go when the military takes its bite, and the answers range from the merely absurd to the truly infuriating, from 250-ton laundry ships to B-bombers worth their weight in silver

About this title

About the Author:

James F. Dunnigan is the author of many books and over a hundred historical simulations. He has been a lecturer to the State Department, the CIA, and the U.S. Army War College. He lives in New York City.

From Publishers Weekly:

This sobering collection of informational nuggets about modern warfare provides basic facts (usually in single-paragraph format) about chemical-warfare potential in Third World countries, electronic warfare, the Asian arms race, reactive armor, combat microcomputers, the latest developments in lasers for military use--and almost 900 other topics. Culled from open sources, the book is also rich in trivia: 98% of CIA staff are "nerds and buffs" (technicians and academics); the Soviet Army has no basic-training period; federal pensions are still being paid to a dozen widows of Civil War veterans; articles on the benefits of masturbation appear in Soviet military journals. We also learn that more than a million people die every year from the direct and indirect effects of war; this handbook briefly covers the equipment and techniques available for mass and individual wartime slaughter. Dunnigan and Nofi are developers of war-game simulations.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0688089488
• ISBN 13: 9780688089481
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464