Reddit reviews Stealth Fighter: A Year in the Life of an F-117 Pilot
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Not on Kindle. :(
Read anything written by a pilot who flew strike missions (a good example is this), or an attack helicopter pilot (e.g. this), or simply read about modern air strikes a lot, and you'll find complaints about "a guy moved into the strike area, causing the mission to be cancelled," etc. This is also indicated by relatively recent tightenings of ROE, like this. The military is made up of people too, and they don't like killing people they shouldn't have, so they try to avoid it within acceptable limits. Tighter ROEs make it more hazardous to soldiers, as it imposes higher burdens before a shot can be made.
Another example that I'm more familiar with is how ROE changes killed a whole class of airplane: the interceptor. Interceptors are fast, high altitude aircraft designed to make over-the-horizon kills with radar only. This means that they can't do things like read roundels, and ROE now dictates that you get positive visual identification of targets before a shot may be made, making the interceptor obsolete.
ROE is very important in modern air operations, for the reason that it doesn't look good when you kill a lot of innocent people. People who didn't deserve to die dying is an inevitable side-effect of military force, and while the military tries their best to avoid it, it's simply impossible to prevent. Civilian casualties are always going to happen, and the best way to avoid them is to not involve the military, and use civilian police forces instead that can use local knowledge and make decisions more carefully and slowly instead. If you want stuff to explode, use the military, if you want a careful approach, use civil measures.
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I read an autobiography of a F117 pilot and according to him it was to get pilots to signup for it.
No one wants to sign up for a B named aircraft ;)
Edit: this was the book: https://www.amazon.com/Stealth-Fighter-Year-F-117-Pilot/dp/0760341354
Talks about the Balkans a lot