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Missiles Of Terror: Hitler's And Hussein's Use Of Ballistic Missiles, Edward Scott Martin
Missiles Of Terror: Hitler's And Hussein's Use Of Ballistic Missiles, Edward Scott Martin
LSU Master's Theses
Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein were the only national leaders ever to use large-scale missile launches against American forces and their wartime allies. In both cases, the missiles were too few in number and lacked the accuracy and warhead size to be militarily effective. Use of the V-2 and SCUD missiles showed that conventionally armed ballistic missiles have minimal tactical military value and are more suitable as terrorist weapons. Indeed, the goal of those two meglomaniacal dictators was to terrorize enemy civilians and achieve a political settlement of a hopeless military situation. Each leader hoped to split the Allied coalitions …