Desert Storm Air War

Author : Robert F. Dorr
Publisher : Motorbooks
ISBN 13 : 9780879385606
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Storm Air War written by Robert F. Dorr and published by Motorbooks. This book was released on 1991 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the Allied air campaign during the Persian Gulf War, and shares interviews with pilots and ground crews.

Author : Jim Corrigan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 081176589X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Storm Air War written by Jim Corrigan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The air campaign that opened the Gulf War in January 1991 was one of the most stunning in history. For five weeks, American and other Coalition aircraft pounded enemy targets with 88,000 tons of bombs. Sorties—more than 100,000 of them—were launched from bases in Saudi Arabia, from aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, and even from bases in the United States. The skies over Iraq and Kuwait were filled with a dizzying array of new and improved weapons—Tomahawk and Hellfire missiles, stealth aircraft, and laser-guided smart bombs—and the results were impressive. The Coalition swiftly established air superiority and laid the foundation for the successful five-day ground campaign that followed. The results were also highly visible as the American people watched the bombings unfold in grainy green video-game-like footage broadcast on CNN and the nightly news. The overwhelming success of the Desert Storm air campaign has made it influential ever since, from the “shock and awe” bombing during the Iraq War in 2003 to more recent drone operations, but the apparent ease with which the campaign was won has masked the difficulty—and the true achievement—of executing such a vast and complex operation. Using government reports, scholarly studies, and original interviews, Jim Corrigan reconstructs events through the eyes of not only the strategists who planned it, but also the pilots who flew the missions.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428978739
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Operation Desert Storm evaluation of the air campaign : report to the Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Commerce, House of Representatives / United States General Accounting Office. written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard P. Hallion
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472846974
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Storm 1991 written by Richard P. Hallion and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expertly written, illustrated new analysis of the Desert Storm air campaign fought against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which shattered the world's fourth-largest army and sixth-largest air force in just 39 days, and revolutionized the world's ideas about modern air power. Operation Desert Storm took just over six weeks to destroy Saddam Hussein's war machine: a 39-day air campaign followed by a four-day ground assault. It shattered what had been the world's fourth-largest army and sixth-largest air force, and overturned conventional military assumptions about the effectiveness and value of air power. In this book, Richard P. Hallion, one of the world's foremost experts on air warfare, explains why Desert Storm was a revolutionary victory, a war won with no single climatic battle. Instead, victory came thanks largely to a rigorously planned air campaign. It began with an opening night that smashed Iraq's advanced air defense system, and allowed systematic follow-on strikes to savage its military infrastructure and field capabilities. When the Coalition tanks finally rolled into Iraq, it was less an assault than an occupation. The rapid victory in Desert Storm, which surprised many observers, led to widespread military reform as the world saw the new capabilities of precision air power, and it ushered in today's era of high-tech air warfare.

Author : Richard Hallion
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 158834519X
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Storm Over Iraq written by Richard Hallion and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive account of the Persian Gulf War, Storm Over Iraq shows how the success of Operation Desert Storm was the product of two decades of profound changes in the American approach to defense, military doctrine, and combat operations. The first detailed analysis of why the Gulf War could be fought the way it was, the book examines the planning and preparation for war. Richard P. Hallion argues that the ascendancy of precision air power in warfare—which fulfilled the promise that air power had held for more than seventy-five years—reflects the revolutionary adaptation of a war strategy that targets things rather than people, allowing one to control an opposing nation without destroying it.

Author : Robert L. Pfaltzgraff
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428992812
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Air Power in the Aftermath of the Gulf War written by Robert L. Pfaltzgraff and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays reflects the proceedings of a 1991 conference on "The United States Air Force: Aerospace Challenges and Missions in the 1990s," sponsored by the USAF and Tufts University. The 20 contributors comment on the pivotal role of airpower in the war with Iraq and address issues and choices facing the USAF, such as the factors that are reshaping strategies and missions, the future role and structure of airpower as an element of US power projection, and the aerospace industry's views on what the Air Force of the future will set as its acquisition priorities and strategies. The authors agree that aerospace forces will be an essential and formidable tool in US security policies into the next century. The contributors include academics, high-level military leaders, government officials, journalists, and top executives from aerospace and defense contractors.

Author : Thomas A. Keaney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gulf War Air Power Survey written by Thomas A. Keaney and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kwai-Cheung Chan
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788147692
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Operation Desert Storm written by Kwai-Cheung Chan and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the unclassified version of a classified report; 85% of the original classified material is presented in this report. Addresses: the use and performance of aircraft, munitions, and missiles employed during the air campaign; the validity of DoD and manufacturer claims about weapon systems' performance, particularly those systems utilizing advanced technology; the relationship between cost and performance of weapon systems; and the extent that air campaign objectives were met. Discusses: LGB accuracy, F-117 and TLAM effectiveness, IADS capabilities, target sensor technologies, combat support platforms, and more.

Author : John A. Warden, III
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788108093
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Air Campaign written by John A. Warden, III and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1994-05 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first analyses of the pure art of planning the aerial dimensions of war. Explores the complicated connection between air superiority and victory in war. Focuses on the use of air forces at the operational level in a theater of war. Presents fascinating historical examples, stressing that the mastery of operational-level strategy can be the key to winning future wars. 20 photos. Bibliography.

Author : Williamson Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air War in the Persian Gulf written by Williamson Murray and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Williamson Murray analyzes the Coalitions conduct of air operations during the war against Iraq in 1990 and 1991. The book examines how the enormous concentration of air power in the Gulf helped or prevented the Coalition from reaching its objectives. This extensive study may be the definitive official history of the air war from the American perspective.