On Course to Desert Storm
Title | On Course to Desert Storm PDF eBook |
Author | Michael A. Palmer |
Publisher | Government Printing Office |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2011-01-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0945274637 |
Contributions to Naval History No. 5.. Traces the history of the United States Navy and the Persian Gulf from 1800 to the end of the Iran-Iraq War in 1988.
On Course to Desert Storm
Title | On Course to Desert Storm PDF eBook |
Author | Michael A. Palmer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Government publications |
ISBN |
The Whirlwind War
Title | The Whirlwind War PDF eBook |
Author | Frank N. Schubert |
Publisher | Government Printing Office |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780160429545 |
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.
War in the Persian Gulf
Title | War in the Persian Gulf PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Winship Stewart |
Publisher | Government Printing Office |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Government publications |
ISBN | 9780160858673 |
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.
Desert Storm
Title | Desert Storm PDF eBook |
Author | Michael J. Mazarr |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2019-04-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0429719728 |
From Saddam Hussein's first bold threats in 1990 to the stunning ground phase of Desert Storm in early 1991, the crisis in the Gulf captured the world's attention. This high-tech, low-cost war was televised nightly from beginning to end, accompanied by on-the-spot interpretations of strategy and its implications. But what did we learn from this crisis? Did the United States bungle its attempts at discouraging Saddam's aggressive actions, or is deterrence simply not a reliable foreign policy tool? Are chemical weapons truly the "poor man's atom bomb"? Does the war represent a good model for future crises, or did circumstances make this war more of an anomaly than a precedent? How did the ail-volunteer U.S. force perform? By combining exciting, detailed vignettes of the crisis with insightful discussions of its consequences, this book opens up an informed debate concerning the true military and geopolitical lessons of the conflict. Representing a distillation of the best thinking on defense and foreign policy in Washington, Desert Storm also incorporates the testimony of the inside players during the crisis—the people who actually planned and fought the war. Combining academic rigor and in-depth military expertise, the authors challenge the complacency of the emerging conventional wisdom regarding the conflict, taking us beyond mere chronicling and instant analysis to a riveting reenactment of the war and the serious consideration of its long-term implications.
The Gulf War
Title | The Gulf War PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Tucker-Jones |
Publisher | Pen and Sword |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2014-05-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1781593914 |
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.
Operation Desert Storm
Title | Operation Desert Storm PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Gitlin |
Publisher | ABDO |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 2009-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781604535167 |
Describes the military campaigns of Operation Desert Storm in which over half-a-million American troops and troops from twenty-eight other nations joined forces to liberate Kuwait.