The Rise and Fall of Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories

This book is an excellent review of the years of the Air Force Cambridge Laboratory, and was written by an insider who knows what he is talking about.

Great book. Very comprehesive; and, written by a person who has first hand knowledge.

This book covers only very cursorily the scientific accomplishments of the labs involved, and in doing so, it uses the in-house jargon and acronyms meaningful only to those who lived through the events on the inside. Most of the book, by actual page count, covers the many many letters, memos, speeches, news articles, and hand-wringing associated with the gradual, admittedly painful, closure of AFCRL and all its successor organizations and subsidiary labs. I was particularly dismayed to see how often the author "used his markers" by ariting under the letterhead of the union he represented. I thought I was going to read about many wonderful and useful research works, especially those that yielded something eventually valuable to the USAF, but found the bulk of the writing here was political, repetitive, and whining.