In the 1980s, military magazines had full color illustrations of concept art of weaponry, exotic air

In the 1980s, military magazines had full color illustrations of concept art of weaponry, exotic airplanes, space lasers, and arctic sub bases used by the Russians, usually painted by Edward L. Cooper or Brian MacMullen, which tended to feature scenic, empty, idealized country locations, as opposed to the actual gritty urban conflicts that war planners disliked thinking about.