The strategic air campaign against Iraq engaged organizers from
diverse disciplines with diverse views. That the storm, when it
broke, lasted just forty-three days is a tribute not only to those
who planned it, but also to those who executed it. The strategic
air campaign, the focus of this volume, the second in the account
of the United States Air Force's participation in the Persian Gulf
War, began with a spectacular nighttime attack by Coalition
aircraft against the capital city of Baghdad. This attack, seen by
the world, occurred in concert with bomb and missile attacks
against outlying command, control, and communications nodes and the
electrical grid supporting them. The strategic air campaign also
targeted Iraq's chemical and biological weapons production and the
sites of nuclear reactors. The strategic bombing campaign against
Iraq's aircraft shelters, particularly successful, is recounted in
this volume, as is the Coalition's effort to prevent the launching
by Iraq of Scud missiles toward her Arab and Israeli neighbors. The
author has done a thorough job of utilizing the documentation
produced by the Air Stall; the Ninth Air Force, and the former
Strategic and Tactical Air Commands to describe the evolution of
the combined command structure in Saudi Arabia. He has also
conducted numerous valuable interviews with key USAF personnel and
obtained much detailed information about the interactions among the
participants whose responsibility it was to organize the campaign
to free Kuwait. He exhaustively analyzes events and issues that
preceded the execution of the strategic air war -operationally,
Instant Thunder- and the rationale behind the selection of core
strategic target sets -enemy centers of gravity. The author, Dr.
Richard G. Davis, joined the USAF history program in 1980,
transferring to the Air Staff History Branch in 1985 and to the
Histories Division in 1990. He has published several articles on
World War II strategic bombing and a military biography on one of
the USAF's leading practitioners of strategic bombing, General Carl
A. Spaatz. Davis became familiar with modern service programs and
doctrine by covering the Program Objective Memorandum and issues
surrounding the interservice agreements known as the "31
Initiatives" from 1985 to 1990.
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