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BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE
65. Atkinson, Crusade, 416–17, 419; Hallion, Storm over Iraq, 185; Michael
Hockett, “Air Interdiction of Scud Missiles: A Need for Alarm,” Air War College
paper, April 1995, 40, AUL; and McMahon, Pursuit of the Shield, 299–300.
66. GWAPS, vol. 2, Operations and Effects and Effectiveness, 191; Michael
Gordon and Bernard Trainor, The Generals’ War (Boston: Little, Brown and
Company, 1995), 239; and Edward Marolda and Robert Schneller, Shield and
Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War (Washington, D.C.:
The Naval Historical Center, 1998), 197.
67. There certainly was a reluctance on the part of many of the Arab
countries to do battle with the Iraqis. Some, if not most, would much rather
have fought Israel. Reportedly, Egyptian and Syrian soldiers cheered when
they learned that Iraq had launched Scuds against Israel. See GWAPS, vol. 4,
Weapons, Tactics, and Training, 35; and Gordon and Trainor, The Generals’
War, 235.
68. Gordon and Trainor, The Generals’ War, 231; Hallion, Storm over
Iraq, 180; and Robert Scales, Certain Victory (Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s,
1994), 183.
69. Richard Barbera, “The Patriot Missile System: A Review and Analysis
of Its Acquisition Process,” Naval Postgraduate School, March 1994, 9, AUL;
Donald Baucom, “Providing High Technology Systems for the Modern Battlefield:
The Case of Patriot’s Antitactical Ballistic Missile Capability,” Air Power
History (Spring 1992): 4–6, 8; Tony Cullen and Christopher Foss, eds., Jane’s
Battlefield Air Defence 1988–89, 9th ed. (Coulsdon, Surrey, U.K.: Jane’s, 1988),
206; William Gregory, “How Patriot Survived: Its Project Managers,” Interavia
Space Review, March 1991, 66; and Steven Hildreth and Paul Zinsmeistser,
“The Patriot Air Defense System and the Search for an Antitactical Ballistic
Missile Defense,” Congressional Research Service, June 1991, 9, AUL.
70. Barbera, “The Patriot Missile System,” 11, 48; Baucom, “Providing High
Technology,” 7; Cullen and Foss, Jane’s Battlefield Air Defence 1988–89, 206;
Theodore Postal, “Lessons of the Gulf War Experience with Patriot,” International
Security (Winter 1991/92): 129–33; Frank Schubert and Theresa
Kraus, The Whirlwind War: The United States Army in Operations Desert Shield
and Desert Storm (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, 1995), 241.
71. Barbera, “The Patriot Missile System,” 13–14, 23–24; Baucom, “Providing
High Technology,” 7, 9; and Cordesman and Wagner, The Lessons of
Modern War, 869.
72. Barbera, “The Patriot Missile System,” 13–17; Baucom, “Providing High
Technology,” 9; Cullen and Foss, Jane’s Battlefield Air Defence 1988–89,
206; Hans Fenstermacher, “The Patriot Crisis” (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University, Kennedy School of Government Case Program, 1990), 3, 5, 7–9, 13;
Gregory, “How Patriot Survived,” 67; and Hildreth and Zinsmeistser, “The
Patriot Air Defense System,” 11.
73. Jorg Bahneman and Thomas Enders, “Reconsidering Ballistic Missile
Defence,” Military Technology, April 1991, 50; Barbera, “The Patriot Missile
System,” 22, 37, 65; Cullen and Foss, Jane’s Battlefield Air Defence
1988–89, 209; and Schubert and Kraus, The Whirlwind War, 264.
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