Books - History, Post-WWII

Clashes: Air Combat Over North Vietnam 1965-1972. Michel, Marshall L. Annapolis MD USA: Naval Institute Press, 1997. Strengths and weaknesses of hardware and software, training successes and failures, and lots of statistics on US and North Vietnamese strategic and tactical air operations and defenses, but also personalized by narrations of engagements from the aviators who flew the missions. Plenty of detail on the aircraft, and also the missiles and guns used by both sides both in the air and from the ground, as well as the various radar and infrared systems on which they depended. An excellent blend of the technical and personal.
Rings Of Supersonic Steel: Air Defenses Of The United States Army 1950-1979. Morgan, Mark L. and Berhow, Mark A. Bodega Bay CA USA: Fort McArthur Military Press, 2002. With the advent of the cold war, the United States replaced its ground-based antiaircraft artillery gun shield with the new technology of surface-to-air intercept missiles. This book is a technical overview of the missiles - primarily the Nike family - and emplacements of this generation of defenses, that encircled the nation's important government, military and industrial locations. It includes a detailed catalog of all of the missile sites - razed, deteriorating, and preserved.
US Strategic and Defensive Missile Systems 1950-2004. Berhow, Mark A. New York: Osprey Publishing, 2005. "The United States and the Soviet Union developed missile systems capable of delivering conventional and nuclear explosives against enemy massed bomber formations in the air, and of delivering retaliatory nuclear payloads against ground targets located on distant continents. The missile systems played both a defensive role, and a potential offensive role, which was parlayed to the public as deterrence against attack by the rival bloc. This title provides a detailed overview of the fixed-launch-site strategic missile systems of the United States."

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