Dr Alfred Price conducted detailed interviews with more than 100 key players in the area of military endeavour as part of his research for the authoritative history of US electronic warfare: War in the Fourth Dimension: US Electronic Warfare from the Vietnam War to the Present. New technology since World War II has revolutionised the way wars are fought. War in the Fourth Dimension reveals the electronic warfare tactics and equipment employed by the US in Vietnam, during the Gulf War, in the war in Kosovo and elsewhere. In the summer of 1965 the US air campaign against North Vietnam suffered a major reverse, when defenders began using Soviet-built surface-to-air missiles against raiding planes. US fighter pilots quickly learned that bravery and flying skill were not enough to ensure survival in the face of this menace. Aircraft losses soared. Then, with the introduction of electronic countermeasures systems and revised tactics, the missile threat was tamed. By the end of 1966 US attack fighters could operate over North Vietnam without risk of serious losses. For the B-52 heavy bombers it was another matter, however. The attacks on Hanoi and other missile-defended targets in December 1972, involving fleets of the heavy bombers, are described in unprecedented detail using information from participants and recently declassified official documents. Dr Price examines the electronic warfare tactics and equipment employed by the US fighting services during Operation Desert Storm against Iraq in 1991, and during Operation Allied Force against the Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999. The low loss rates suffered by US planes attacking targets in missile-defended areas during these conflicts were not a matter of luck: they were an outcome of much hard work and expenditure to develop the necessary protective systems. War in the Fourth Dimension provides valuable insight into the long-running intelligence battle to collect detailed information on unfriendly nations’ electronic systems, the development of radar stealth techniques, the effect of computer technology on countermeasures systems, the evolution of information warfare and a review of likely developments in electronic warfare systems in the future. This book gives the clearest possible account of these new technologies in modern warfare and how they affect the outcome of battles. Dr Alfred Price’s RAF career included sixteen years as an Air Electronics Officer, tours with the RAF’s electronic warfare training and demonstration unit and some 4000 flying hours in military aircraft. Since leaving the service he has written many books on aviation and related subjects, including Instruments of Darkness and Battle of Britain Day. Back to Greenhill Military Book News No. 107 Table of Contents Back to Greenhill Military Book News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2001 by Greenhill Books This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com