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9781557509734

The Precision Revolution: Gps and the Future of Aerial Warfare

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    9781557509734

  • ISBN10:

    1557509735

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-07-01
  • Publisher: Naval Inst Pr
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Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
PART 1. The Promise of a Revolutionary Technology
A Revolution in Progress
3(11)
A Brief History of Military Air and Space Navigation
14(54)
The Navstar Global Positioning System
68(33)
Glonass: The Russian Global Navigation Satellite System
101(16)
PART 2. Navstar GPS Comes of Age
Navstar's Storm across the Desert
117(74)
PART 3. The Full Meaning of GPS Today
The Military Need for GPS
191(42)
GPS Weapons Systems
233(43)
GPS and Electronic Warfare
276(30)
Intelligence, Information, and the Limits of Precision
306(28)
GPS and International Security
334(27)
PART 4. Cruise Missile Diplomacy in the 1990s
Antiterrorism and Counterproliferation after the Cold War
361(20)
GPS in the Air War over Yugoslavia
381(37)
A Revolution with Limits
418(6)
Postscript Precision Strikes Hit the United States, 11 September 2001 424(5)
Appendix A National Security Directive Announcing Navstar's Availability for Civilian Use 429(2)
Appendix B Navigation Satellite Launch Tables 431(5)
Appendix C Letters Advising of Navstar's Operational Capability 436(3)
Appendix D Transition of Selective Availability to Zero 439(4)
List of Abbreviations 443(8)
Notes 451(48)
Glossary 499(28)
Selected Bibliography 527(8)
Index 535

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