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Everyone is aware of the horror of ballistic missiles employed by Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War, but few are aware of the accurate and far more devastating attacks on Iraqi military targets caused by U.S. cruise missiles. Seth Carus now provides us with the compelling logic and data to understand why such missiles well may become the long-reach weapons of choice in regional conflicts. Easier to obtain, hide, and use, Carus alerts us to the potentially destabilizing effects of these weapons in the hands of rogue states. - James G. Roche Senior Defense Industry Executive and Former Democratic Staff Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services

The book is well written and thoroughly researched and contains a helpful appendix and four tables. An important work that belongs in professional and university libraries. -Choice ?The book is well written and thoroughly researched and contains a helpful appendix and four tables. An important work that belongs in professional and university libraries.?-Choice Everyone is aware of the horror of ballistic missiles employed by Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War, but few are aware of the accurate and far more devastating attacks on Iraqi military targets caused by U.S. cruise missiles. Seth Carus now provides us with the compelling logic and data to understand why such missiles well may become the long-reach weapons of choice in regional conflicts. Easier to obtain, hide, and use, Carus alerts us to the potentially destabilizing effects of these weapons in the hands of rogue states. - James G. Roche Senior Defense Industry Executive and Former Democratic Staff Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services Seth Carus reveals in superb detail the rapid advances in modern technology that have made cruise missiles increasingly effective delivery vehicles for all types of modern weapons. He raises important concerns that these systems may soon come within the technological and fiscal reach of less advanced and less responsible nations around the globe. Carus's thorough and timely work addresses key issues that U.S. policymakers should not ignore. -John Harvey Senior Research Engineer Center for International Security and Arms Control Stanford University

The book is well written and thoroughly researched and contains a helpful appendix and four tables. An important work that belongs in professional and university libraries. -Choice ?The book is well written and thoroughly researched and contains a helpful appendix and four tables. An important work that belongs in professional and university libraries.?-Choice Seth Carus reveals in superb detail the rapid advances in modern technology that have made cruise missiles increasingly effective delivery vehicles for all types of modern weapons. He raises important concerns that these systems may soon come within the technological and fiscal reach of less advanced and less responsible nations around the globe. Carus's thorough and timely work addresses key issues that U.S. policymakers should not ignore. -John Harvey Senior Research Engineer Center for International Security and Arms Control Stanford University Everyone is aware of the horror of ballistic missiles employed by Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War, but few are aware of the accurate and far more devastating attacks on Iraqi military targets caused by U.S. cruise missiles. Seth Carus now provides us with the compelling logic and data to understand why such missiles well may become the long-reach weapons of choice in regional conflicts. Easier to obtain, hide, and use, Carus alerts us to the potentially destabilizing effects of these weapons in the hands of rogue states. - James G. Roche Senior Defense Industry Executive and Former Democratic Staff Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services

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W. SETH CARUS completed this volume while a research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. His most recently published works include The Poor Man's Atomic Bomb? Biological Weapons in the Middle East and Ballistic Missiles in Modern Conflict (Praeger, 1991). He was an Olin Fellow at the Naval War College Foundation in Newport, Rhode Island.

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