Air base defense: Taiwan's defensive responses to China's missile threat

Taiwan's Security and Air Power: Taiwan's Defense Against the Air Threat From Mainland China

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 140-152

  Tsai, Ming Yen ^a  

^a National Chung Hsin University   (Taiwan)

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EID: 84906021146     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203316436     Document Type: Chapter

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24. This idea is a revised version of RAND's proposal to protect US aircraft deployed in the Middle East from Iraqi missile attacks in theater conflict. Orletsky, David et al., op. cit., pp. 35-8.