Robert Hopkins

Spyflights and Overflights: US Strategic Aerial Reconnaissance, 1945-1960

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ISBN 13:
9781902109503
author:
Robert Hopkins
format:
HardBack
publisher:
Hikoki Publications
language:
English
Publication Year:
2016
Pages:
200
Dimensions:
21.1 x 1.3 x 29.7 cm
Genre:
History, Military History, Armed Forces, Robert Hopkins,Spyflights and Overflights: US Strategic Aerial Reconnaissance, 1945-1960,Hikoki Publications,1902109503,Military History,History,USA,History - Military / War,Military,c 1945 to c 1960,Air force
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Cold War aerial reconnaissance remains one of aviation's most secretive subjects. Robert S. Hopkins III sheds new light on strategic intelligence flights during this period. Hopkins challenges prevailing views that these flights were undertaken to prevent war, reduce defence spending, or by rogue generals bent on starting World War Three. Instead, he presents the Soviet perspective and makes a compelling case that reconnaissance flights did not have a sustained adverse effect on relations with the West. Using declassified materials, interviews with crews and policy makers, and his own experience flying strategic reconnaissance missions, Hopkins links the daily operations of courageous fliers to decisions by world leaders that shaped the outcome of the Cold War.

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