Directed-Energy: The Next Revolution

By Doug Beason

Dr. Beason is the former Chief Scientist of Air Force Space Command and Associate Laboratory Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory. A retired USAF Colonel, he commanded a research site responsible for developing DE weapons. The author of 15 books and over 100 articles, he authored The E-Bomb: How America's New Directed Energy Weapons Will Change the Way Future Wars Will Be Fought, published by Da Capo Press in 2005.

The size of the army matters—but technology wins wars.

At the height of the Roman Empire, Roman Legions armed with arrows, long-staffs, and shields devastated the more numerous but ill-equipped barbarian hordes.

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