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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428990410
Total Pages : 251 pages
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Download or read book Lucrative targets : the U.S. Air Force in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Lucrative Targets: The U.S. Air Force in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late 1970s, the United States began revitalizing its Air Force and other military services. By the close of the 1980s, America had built a force structure that stood ready for a test that, very fortunately, it never had to meet: a major war in Europe. The United States faced this dangerous possibility for more than 40 years until, in 1989, the Soviet Union abruptly collapsed. Americans were still sorting out the implications of this sudden change in world affairs in August 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait and precipitated a crisis that led to the military conflict in the Persian Gulf. The U.S. Air Force found itself at war -- although not the one it had prepared for, against the Warsaw Pact powers -- but one against Saddam Hussein's heavily armed regime. This monograph is one in a series of five works dealing with various aspects of the Air Force's participation in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. In two other volumes, William T. Y'Blood details the Air Force's deployment to the Gulf; in a third, Diane T. Putney analyzes the planning of the air campaign; and, in a fourth, Richard G. Davis discusses the air operations against targets in Iraq. As this monograph goes to press during the spring of 2001, the Air Force is passing through a dynamic period of reorganization and change. The era when a large U.S. Air Force defended the United States against a single preeminent threat, Soviet aggression, has ended. During the years ahead, a smaller Air Force will support the interests of the nation, under diverse circumstances around the globe. While the U.S. Air Force continues to ensure that the United States has a global reach and can project global power, the service will greatly benefit from the lessons it learned during Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
Author : Perry D. Jamieson
Publisher : Department of the Air Force
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Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Lucrative Targets written by Perry D. Jamieson and published by Department of the Air Force. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United States Air Force in the Persian Gulf War. Part of a series of five works dealing with various aspects of the Air Force’s participation in Desert Shield and Storm. This volume focuses on the Air Force’s role in the opposing Iraqi forces in the "Kuwaiti theater of operations," a relatively small region in souther Iraq and Kuwait, where Iraqi Republican Guard were concentrated.
Author : Perry D. Jamieson
Publisher : Military Bookshop
ISBN 13 : 9781782663904
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (639 download)
Download or read book Lucrative Targets written by Perry D. Jamieson and published by Military Bookshop. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781508614302
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Lucrative Targets written by Office of Air Force History and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early August 1990, Iraq attacked Kuwait, its small neighbor to the south, with overwhelming forces. U.S. Army General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Commander in Chief, United States Central Command (USCENTCOM), later recalledhow the sudden Iraqi mobilization during late July had misled some U.S. military leaders. “Iraq had used the desert near Basra for training before,” he explained, “and at first we thought this might be merely another exercise…. But by the end of July, the Iraqis were no longer confined to the exercise area; they had fanned out southeast and southwest of Basra and pointed themselves toward the Kuwaiti border.” On August 2, heavy units of the Republican Guard Forces Commandplunged across that frontier, leading a brutally swift assault. These elite troops quickly overran Kuwait, seized Kuwait City, and, on the second day of the invasion, moved rapidly toward the Saudi Arabian border. By August 6, elements ofeleven divisions were either in or entering the small kingdom south of Iraq. These powerful forces firmly occupied Kuwait and stood poised to invade Saudi Arabia.
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ISBN 13 : 9781521077733
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (777 download)
Download or read book The USAF in the Persian Gulf War written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent book compiles two fascinating U.S. Air Force documents: The USAF in the Persian Gulf War: Lucrative Targets - The U.S. Air Force in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations, and Operation Desert Shield: The Deployment of USAF Forces.During the late 1970s, the United States began revitalizing its Air Force and other military services. By the close of the 1980s, America had built a force structure that stood ready for a test that, very fortunately, it never had to meet-- a major war in Europe. The United States faced this dangerous possibility for more than forty years until, in 1989, the Soviet Union abruptly collapsed. Americans were still sorting out the implications of this sudden change in world affairs in August 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait and precipitated a crisis that led to the military conflict in the Persian Gulf. The U.S. Air Force found itself at war-- although not the one it had prepared for, against the Warsaw Pact powers--but one against Saddam Hussein's heavily armed regime. Contents: Chapter 1 - This Will Not Stand: A Crisis in the Persian Gulf * Chapter 2 - Jump Start and Concentric Rings: Preparing for an Air Campaign * Chapter 3 - No Place to Hide: Phases I, II, and the Shift to III * Chapter 4 - Destroying the Battlefield: Phase III Operations in the KTO * Chapter 5 - An Intricate Ballet: Some KTO Issues * Chapter 6 - Jedi Knights and Push CAS: Preparing for a Ground Campaign * Chapter 7 - Tanks Abandoned: Phase IV, the Ground CampaignOperation Desert Shield: The Deployment of USAF Forces - When Operation Desert Shield began on August 7, 1990, other than a handful of embassy "hack" aircraft, only two Air Force planes (and a few support personnel) were located on the Arabian Peninsula. These two planes, K0135Rs, were operating with United Arab Emirate Mirage 2000 fighters in a refueling exercise known as Ivory Justice. Only five months later, when Desert Storm began, 1,160 Air Force aircraft were based in CENTCOM's area of responsibility, and another 129 planes were located at Incirlik, Turkey, as part of a joint operation known as Proven Force. This remarkable buildup, however, had not been accomplished without Air Force planners suffering some "heartburn" in the process. Beginning July 9, 1990, and ending on August 4, just two days after Iraq invaded Kuwait, CENTCOM held a command post exercise at Eglin AFB and at Fort Bragg. This exercise, Internal Look, was designed to test various aspects of a brand-new operations plan, 1002-90. Both General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the CENTCOM commander, and Lt. General Charles A Horner, the CENTAF commander, and their primary staffs participated in Internal Look. This participation proved extremely helpful when Desert Shield began. 1002-90 directed CENTCOM forces to "deploy... and take actions in concert with host nation forces and allies to deter and, if necessary, counter an intraregional attack on the Arabian Peninsula to maintain U.S. and allied access to and protection of key oil resources."
Author : Perry Jamieson
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781477544006
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Lucrative Targets written by Perry Jamieson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-05-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is one in a series of five works dealing with various aspects of the Air Force's participation in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Historians of the Air Force History Program built a foundation for researching any topic related to the Gulf War air campaign. Before, during, and after Desert Storm, they collected thousands of feet of documents and conducted a number of valuable oral history interviews.
Author : U. S. Military
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ISBN 13 : 9781521264386
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (643 download)
Download or read book On Target written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Air Force publication is focused on the "offensive air campaign against Iraq," a term implying that the strategic phase of the air campaign that attacked military and economic targets in Iraq proper was part of a larger overall air operation. The author also uses the term "strategic air campaign" sometimes interchangeably with "offensive air campaign" to refer to the strategic phase of the campaign, not the overall campaign. No air operation occurs in a vacuum, especially one involving the vast geographic distances of the theater of operations and the numerous military units supplied by the Coalition partners. The author, therefore, has made a thorough effort to place the Persian Gulf War in its larger political and military context to explain the motivations behind the Coalition's conduct of the campaign. The professionalism of the USAF also profoundly affected the conduct of operations. It is important to understand that the unprecedentedly high morale, discipline, and training of U.S. servicemen and women, which rested to some extent upon honoring local customs and the strictures of Islam and to a greater extent on the all-volunteer military, had a positive effect on operations. The extraordinary air plan, hastily developed for the strategic phase of the campaign by the Air Staff, provided the linchpin for this narrative. The underlying targeting philosophy of the plan, not necessarily all its details, drove the final prewar preparations and directed much of the first ten days of the war, as well as heavily influenced air operations to the conflict's end. The plan's goals and objectives, drawn up by airmen and approved by the national leadership, provide a ready-made yardstick for judging the USAF's performance in the strategic air phases of operations against Iraq. Neither in the light of operations in the Balkans nor those in Afghanistan in the decade since this work's creation has the author found reason to change his original conclusions as expressed here. 1: The Kuwait Crisis and the Decision to Intervene * 2: The Initial Deployment * 3: The Offensive Air Campaign Plan * 4: The Offensive Deployment, Morale, and Training * 5: The Decision for War * 6: Thunder and Hail over Baghdad: The Initial Attacks * 7: Weather and the Great Scud Hunt * 8: Continuing the Air Offensive against Iraq * 9: Assessment Stealth air combat operations, inaugurated en masse in the Gulf War, became even more prevalent with the introduction of the B-2 bomber. Likewise, the use of precision weapons grew. The aversion of western democracies to both military and civilian casualties and their effect on targeting, tactics, and strategy first encountered over Iraq became more pronounced in subsequent conflicts-as did the continuing challenge in matching accurate intelligence to precision weapons. Because of these enduring trends, study of the Persian Gulf War will continue to offer members of the service and the public valuable insights and information applicable to current military affairs.
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Total Pages : 60 pages
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ISBN 13 : 1428990240
Total Pages : 397 pages
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