Fairfax, VA: AFCEA International Press, 1998. May be later printing. Hardcover. vi, 403, [7] pages. Tables. Figures. Endnotes. Glossary. As an Air Force staff officer, Alan Campen spent four years at Strategic Air Command headquarters working on capabilities for surviving nuclear attacks. The colonel later worked on survivable high-frequency and satellite-based communications. Col. Campen served for four years on the Air Staff in the Pentagon before assuming command of the Air Force Communications Service (AFCS) United Kingdom (UK) Region and the role of assistant chief of staff, communications, U.S. Air Force, 3rd Air Force. The colonel then assumed his final posting as commander, Defense Communications Agency-Europe. He accepted a political appointment in the Reagan administration as director, command and control policy, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. In this position, he defined civilian use of military Global Positioning System (GPS) capabilities. More

Fairfax, VA: AFCEA International Press, 2000. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. iv, 309, [7] pages. Illustrations. Endnotes. About the authors. Index. Colonel Campen served in the US Navy in WW II, participating in the capture of Saipan and Guam, and in the US Air Force in the Korean and Vietnam wars. He retired in 1975. Subsequently he managed the book publishing operations of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), Fairfax, Virginia. Colonel Campen was a prolific writer and lecturer on information systems, intelligence and national security. His 1992 book about information and intelligence in the Persian Gulf War, The First Information War, was one of the earliest publications on the subject. His 1995 book Cyberwar: Security, Strategy and Conflicts in the Information Age was required reading at many military schools. His articles and essays on communications, computers, information systems, intelligence and national security appeared regularly defense journals. More