More fun and entertaining U.S. Army training materials, this time an “Introduction to Imagery Analysis”. Like most of these other textbooks, it’s a decade or two out of date (RF-111? RF-4? Huh?) but still interesting - if only to see how things were done back before computers controlled the world.

Some of the sample imagery is fairly interesting, at least from a technical perspective:
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It seems unlikely the United States will ever employ land mines again on any sort of large scale, if at all, but the training materials still linger on. The fact that they haven’t been revised in a few decades should be a good indicator of how effective global anti-mine campaigns have been…
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