Storm Over Iraq
Title | Storm Over Iraq PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Hallion |
Publisher | Smithsonian Institution |
Pages | 485 |
Release | 2015-05-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 158834519X |
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.
Storm Over Iraq
Title | Storm Over Iraq PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Hallion |
Publisher | Smithsonian Books (DC) |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
An incisive account of the Persian Gulf War, which marked the ascendancy of air power in warfare. Hallion traces the history of air power up to the planning, preparation, and conduct of the war, and also outlines the significance the war holds for national security planning. Detailed appendices further examine specific issues, while the entire volume is meticulously documented and thoroughly illustrated. Accessible to a broad audience. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Iraq
Title | Iraq PDF eBook |
Author | Dilip Hiro |
Publisher | Nation Books |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781560254775 |
The renowned historian and journalist serves up a brief but insightful guide to the real Iraq, piercing through the myths surrounding Saddam Hussein to paint a realistic picture of the beleagured nation. Original.
Heart of the Storm
Title | Heart of the Storm PDF eBook |
Author | Richard T. Reynolds |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Persian Gulf War, 1991 |
ISBN | 9781585660520 |
Desert Storm Air War
Title | Desert Storm Air War PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Corrigan |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2017-08-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 081176589X |
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.
Crusade
Title | Crusade PDF eBook |
Author | Rick Atkinson |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 614 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780395710838 |
Integrating interviews with individuals ranging from senior policymakers to frontline soldiers, a look at the Persian Gulf War shows how the conflict transformed modern warfare.
Desert Storm 1991
Title | Desert Storm 1991 PDF eBook |
Author | Richard P. Hallion |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 97 |
Release | 2022-02-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1472846974 |
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.