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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. This monograph is
one in a series of five works dealing with various aspects of the
Air Force's participation in Desert Shield and 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, the Air Force is passing through a dynamic period of
reorganization and change. The era when a large USAF 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.
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.
Discusses the terrorist truck bombing of Khobar Towers that
occurred in Saudi Arabia on June 25, 1996. Nineteen American
servicemen were killed and many people were injured. First
published in 2008. Illustrated.
When Gen. Robert E. Lee fled from Petersburg and Richmond,
Virginia, in April 1865, many observers did not realize that the
Civil War had reached its nadir. A large number of Confederates,
from Jefferson Davis down to the rank-and-file, were determined to
continue fighting. Though Union successes had nearly extinguished
the Confederacy's hope for an outright victory, the South still
believed it could force the Union to grant a negotiated peace that
would salvage some of its war aims. As evidence of the
Confederacy's determination, two major Union campaigns, along with
a number of smaller engagements, were required to quell the
continued organized Confederate military resistance. In Spring 1865
Perry D. Jamieson juxtaposes for the first time the major campaign
against Lee that ended at Appomattox and Gen. William T. Sherman's
march north through the Carolinas, which culminated in Gen. Joseph
E. Johnston's surrender at Bennett Place. Jamieson also addresses
the efforts required to put down armed resistance in the Deep South
and the Trans-Mississippi. As both sides fought for political goals
following Lee's surrender, these campaigns had significant
consequences for the political-military context that shaped the end
of the war as well as Reconstruction.
Weapons improved rapidly after the Civil War, raising difficult
questions about the battle tactics employed by the United States
Army. The most fundamental problem was the dominance of the
tactical defensive, when defenders protected by fieldworks could
deliver deadly fire from rifles and artillery against attackers
advancing in close-ordered lines. The vulnerability of these
offensive forces as they crossed the so-called "deadly ground" in
front of defensive positions was even greater with the improvement
of armaments after the Civil War.
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