The Gulf War 1991

Author : Alastair Finlan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472810198
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gulf War 1991 written by Alastair Finlan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gulf War of 1991 heralded a new type of warfare that was characterised by astonishing speed and high technology with remarkably low numbers of casualties amongst the coalition forces. Just under a million coalition personnel were deployed to the Gulf region to face a variety of threats from extreme temperatures to weapons of mass destruction (biological, chemical and suspected nuclear) and a formidable Iraqi occupation force. This book assesses the defensive Operation Desert Shield (the build up of coalition forces) and the offensive Operation Desert Storm (the liberation of Kuwait) as well as the key personalities on both sides.

Author : Alastair Finlan
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1435874986
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gulf War of 1991 written by Alastair Finlan and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2008-07-15 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the modern military campaign of The Gulf War.

Author : Frank N. Schubert
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160429545
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Whirlwind War written by Frank N. Schubert and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1995 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMH Publication 70-30. Edited by Frank N. Schubert and TheresaL. Kraus. Discusses the United States Army's role in the Persian Gulf War from August 1990 to February 1991. Shows the various strands that came together to produce the army of the 1990s and how that army in turn performed under fire and in the glare of world attention. Retains a sense of immediacy in its approach. Contains maps which were carefully researched and compiled as original documents in their own right. Includes an index.

Author : Richard Winship Stewart
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160858673
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War in the Persian Gulf written by Richard Winship Stewart and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2010 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years ago, the Persian Gulf War captured the attention of the world as the first test of the U.S. Army since the Vietnam War and the first large-scale armor engagement since World War II. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and his subsequent ouster by the U.S.-led coalition are keys to understanding today's situation in the Middle East. The coalition partnerships cemented in that initial operation and in the regional peacekeeping operations that followed provided the basis for a growing series of multinational efforts that have characterized the post-Cold War environment. Moreover, the growing interoperability of U.S. air, sea, and land forces coupled with the extensive employment of more sophisticated weapons first showcased in Desert Storm have become the hallmark of American military operations and the standard that other nations strive to meet.

Author : Andrew J. Bacevich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135318018
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gulf War of 1991 Reconsidered written by Andrew J. Bacevich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gulf War of 1991 Reconsidered subjects one of the formative events of the post-Cold War era and a watershed in Middle Eastern international politics to a comprehensive reassessment. Condidering events from Arab, Israeli and American view points, the book examines the Gulf War's historical origins, conduct and legacy.

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 : E. R. Hooton
Publisher : Middle East@War
ISBN 13 : 9781911628224
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Storm written by E. R. Hooton and published by Middle East@War. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Desert Storm' reveals the whole war fought between Iraq and an international coalition, from the start of this campaign to its very end. This book offers a refreshing insight into this unique conflict.

Author : Anthony Tucker-Jones
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1781593914
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gulf War written by Anthony Tucker-Jones and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-05-31 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each stage in the Gulf War, the liberation by American-led UN forces of Iraqi-occupied Kuwait in 1990-91, is vividly described in this photographic history. Over 180 photographs provide a remarkable visual account of Operation Desert Storm in the air, at sea and on land, and they show the vast array of military equipment deployed by both sides. ??Anthony Tucker-Jones, who worked at the time as an analyst for British Defence Intelligence, describes the armed forces that were ranged against each other, in total over a million troops, over 7000 armoured vehicles, 4600 artillery pieces, and thousands of aircraft. ??In a concise text he relates the key events in the short, intense conflict that followed – the preliminary air campaign, the elimination of the Iraqi navy, the coalition's ground offensive, the tank battles in which American Abrams and British Challengers engaged Soviet-designed T-72 and T-62s, the Iraqi retreat, the death and destruction at the Muttla Pass, and the liberation of Kuwait City. ??The photographs, most of which have not been published before, give a powerful impression of the character of late-twentieth-century warfare. They also record a major conflict that has been overshadowed by the more recent war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

Author : Zainab Bahrani
Publisher : P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
ISBN 13 : 9780996893084
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theater of Operations written by Zainab Bahrani and published by P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhibition catalogue, accompanying the major building-wide exhibition Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2011, includes four new commissioned texts by scholars of Iraqi art Zainab Bahrani, Rijin Sahakian, and Nada Shabout, as well as a media-focused critique from McKenzie Wark. The book will also feature essays from our curators Ruba Katrib and Peter Eleey, as well as critical reproductions from contemporaneous media artifacts, ranging from the Baghdad Diaries--the personal diaries during Iraqi occupation and sanction of artist Nuha Al-Radi--as well as entries from the still-anonymous blogger Riverbend's Baghdad Burning blog chronicling her time living under occupation, as well as texts from Serge Daney, Jean Baudrillard. As this conflict was the first to disseminate via a 24hr televised news cycle, this publication examines the impact of this period of ongoing conflict and its pervasive effects on visual culture.

Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253210036
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gulf War Did Not Take Place written by Jean Baudrillard and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a provocative analysis written during the unfolding drama of 1992, Baudrillard draws on his concepts of simulation and the hyperreal to argue that the Gulf War did not take place but was a carefully scripted media event--a "virtual" war. Patton's introduction argues that Baudrillard, more than any other critic of the Gulf War, correctly identified the stakes involved in the gestation of the New World Order.