JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
This is one of hose books that I couldn't possibly spend any time with, save for skimming the illustrations looking for something unusual. Generally popular books published by Certain Publishing Houses on the future of warfare tend to read like bad sci fi--having not read this one I can't address that here, though this pic found at the end of the book may offer a little insight to the rest of the book's content. The author was a tank commander of high distinction, which might explain at least his hopes for the technological breakthrough of delivering fuel to motorized units in the front line--via "giant fuel missiles". Evidently these enormous missiles (the width of a tank) and filled with fuel is somehow launched and the projectiles fall gently enough to stand precariously on their own with the top 5% of the length buried a slight bit but somehow enough to support the weight of the missile and the contents. Remarkable.
And then! The idea appears again with the Warhead Warriors--soldiers delivered to the front in missile-shaped missiles.
There may be something of interest in this book, but it remains for hardier people than me to recover.
See Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895- 1984, p. 290.
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