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Desert Storm Air War - The Aerial Campaign Against Saddam's Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War (Hardcover)
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Desert Storm Air War - The Aerial Campaign Against Saddam's Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War (Hardcover)
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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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