Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy’s use of electronic warfare.
Charles Schulz, in his May 12, 1952, "Peanuts" strip, evoked talk of electronic warfare in a way that seemed to me to be out of its time. Not being familiar with science fiction of that time I think I might simply be surprised to find this type of language in this particular cartoon strip in 1952. In later years Snoopy’s adventures might take him through all manner of rocketry and force fields, but as I read through the first volume of "The Complete Peanuts" covering 1950 to 1952 I was somewhat surprised by the May 12, 1952, strip.
Shermy: BANG! I got you, Charlie Brown!
Charlie Brown: No, you didn’t!! I’m wearing a bullet-proof suit!
Shermy: But I shot you with an armor-piercing ray-gun!
Charlie Brown: But I’ve got radioactive X-Rays all around me!
Shermy: But my gun shoots atomic reduction heat waves!
Charlie Brown: Oh,…. Well,… In that case I guess you got me!
Seeing the dialogue from a "Peanuts" strip without its drawings reminds me of a "big, big secret" I was let in on in 1997 or 1998. The secret was that some company had secured venture capital funding to transcribe the text portion of the complete run of "Peanuts." I wonder what ever became of that seemingly ludicrous bonfire of venture capital moneys.
