I don’t the author does any favors by making comparisons to KAL 007 here. That incident was such a debacle — mainly on the part of the pilot/crew of the airliner — that it’s hard to blame the Soviets entirely for it.
What did they do? Refresh my memory.
“I don’t the author does any favors by making comparisons to KAL 007 here. That incident was such a debacle — mainly on the part of the pilot/crew of the airliner — that it’s hard to blame the Soviets entirely for it.”
Except that, 12 years later, the Russians admitted they screwed up.