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In 1948 the United Nations launched the United Nations Truce
Supervision Organization following the conflict that erupted
between Israel and its Arab neighbors, who profoundly opposed the
creation of a Jewish state. UNTSO quickly found itself overseeing
the ceasefire lines between combatant parties. In the ensuing
decades, as countries along the eastern Mediterranean engaged in a
series of escalating military conflicts, UNTSO was continually
challenged in its peacekeeping mission, often having to alter its
configuration. Matters came to a head in 1982, when Israel invaded
Lebanon for a second time, calling into question the efficacy of UN
peacekeeping operations and US support for them. In Yanks in Blue
Berets: American UN Peacekeepers in the Middle East, retired US
Army colonel and former UN military observer L. Scott Lingamfelter
chronicles the role of the US military in UN Middle East
peacekeeping operations. Framed by his personal experiences, the
book examines the difficulties faced by UN forces wedged between
warring sides with limited trust in their authority as well as the
challenging dichotomy of a soldier trained for combat yet immersed
in unarmed peacekeeping. Yanks in Blue Berets is a "boots on the
ground" perspective of the building Arab-Israeli tensions and
geopolitics preceding the 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
When Saddam Hussein's Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990,
triggering the First Gulf War, a coalition of thirty-five countries
led by the United States responded with Operation Desert Storm,
which culminated in a one-hundred-hour coordinated air strike and
ground assault that repelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait. Though
largely forgotten in descriptions of the war, an eight-day barrage
of artillery fire made this seemingly rapid offensive possible. At
the forefront of this offensive were the brave field artillerymen
known as "redlegs." In Desert Redleg: Artillery Warfare in the
First Gulf War, a veteran and former redleg of the 1st Infantry
Division Artillery (otherwise known as the "Big Red One"), Col. L.
Scott Lingamfelter, recounts the logistical and strategic decisions
that led to a coalition victory. Drawing on original battle maps,
official reports, and personal journals, Lingamfelter describes the
experience of the First Gulf War through a soldier's eyes and
attempts to answer the question of whether the United States "got
the job done" in its first sustained Middle Eastern conflict. Part
military history, part personal memoir, this book provides a
boots-on-the-ground perspective on the largest US artillery
bombardment since World War II.
When Saddam Hussein's Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990,
triggering the First Gulf War, a coalition of thirty-five countries
led by the United States responded with Operation Desert Storm,
which culminated in a onehundred- hour coordinated air strike and
ground assault that repelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait. Though
largely forgotten in descriptions of the war, an eight-day barrage
of artillery fire made this seemingly rapid offensive possible. At
the forefront of this offensive were the brave field artillerymen
known as "redlegs." In Desert Redleg: Artillery Warfare in the
First Gulf War, veteran and former redleg of the First Infantry
Division Artillery (otherwise known as the "Big Red One") Col. L.
Scott Lingamfelter recounts the logistical and strategic decisions
that led to a coalition victory. Drawing on original battle maps,
official reports, and his and his comrades' personal journals,
Lingamfelter describes the experience of the First Gulf War through
a soldier's eyes and attempts to answer the question of whether the
United States "got the job done" in its first sustained Middle
Eastern conflict. Part military history, part personal memoir, this
book provides a boots-on-theground perspective on the largest US
artillery bombardment since World War II.
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