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Thanks, in part, to RAND, the Kennedy administration, Albert Wohlstetter, and advances in new weapons technologies, the ambition to achieve ‘pinpoint’ precision returned to the forefront of American warfare. From Desert Storm to Kosovo, the War on Terror to modern drone warfare, the Epilogue explains how the century-long pursuit for precision continues to impact warfare today. Yet there is a warning. As Albert Wohlstetter argued in 1988 – ‘high-tech is not an American monopoly’ – and precision technologies are now spreading around the world to a record number of hostile state and non-state actors. What can the history of precision teach us about the global proliferation of precision technologies and the future of precision threats?
War historian and drone expert, James Patton Rogers, takes readers on a journey through the past, present, and future of American warfare. By highlighting the innovative thinkers of the First World War, the experimental technologies of the Second World War, and the surprising Cold War nuclear strategies that drove the ambition for precision airpower, this book explains how precision strategies and weapons (such as drones and precision-guided missiles) became the dominant feature of war that they are today.