Silent Knights: Blowing the Whistle on Military Accidents and Their Cover Ups

The investigation procedures for military accidents are corrupt, charges Alan E. Diehl, a former aviation safety expert for the U.S. Air Force. His muckraking look at friendly-fire fatalities of the last two decades, Silent Knights: Blowing the Whistle on Military Accidents and Their Cover-Ups, alleges that the military's code of secrecy regarding accidents, as well as its reluctance to spend money on certain safety measures, leads to lost lives and costs taxpayers enormous sums. Diehl x-rays high-profile calamities like the Ehime Maru/Greeneville collision last year and the plane crash that killed Ron Brown, showing how these and other misfortunes might have been avoided. (Apr. 15)