This incredibly dated book looks at the deployment of the Pershing II and Ground-Launched Cruise Missiles in the 1980s. Pershing IIs were longer-range ballistic missiles designed to support the U.S. Army in Europe. They were deployed because the Soviet Union deployed SS-20s within range of the NATO line of defense in West Germany. You wouldn't know it from this book, which is more concerned about what the Pershing II might do to Soviets in Ukraine, Byelorussia and Lithuania than what the SS-20 might do to Frankfurt-am-Main or Hamburg. Also, the writer either had no idea of how weapon systems are procured in the United States (especially very expensive, very complex systems) or was being deliberately misleading. One very strange argument is that the United States Army would be given strategic nuclear weapons... for the first time!
This book is only good as a nostalgic look at communism and the weak-minded stooges who did their bidding in the various peace movements in the 1980s.
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