Description: An expertly written, illustrated new analysis of the Desert Storm air campaign fought against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which shattered the world's fourth-largest army and sixth-largest air force in just 39 days, and revolutionized the world's ideas about modern air power. Operation Desert Storm took just over six weeks to destroy Saddam Hussein's war machine: a 39-day air campaign followed by a four-day ground assault. It shattered what had been the world's fourth-largest army and sixth-largest air force, and overturned conventional military assumptions about the effectiveness and value of air power. In this book, Richard P. Hallion, one of the world's foremost experts on air warfare, explains why Desert Storm was a revolutionary victory, a war won with no single climatic battle. Instead, victory came thanks largely to a rigorously planned air campaign. It began with an opening night that smashed Iraq's advanced air defense system, and allowed systematic follow-on strikes to savage its military infrastructure and field capabilities. When the Coalition tanks finally rolled into Iraq, it was less an assault than an occupation. The rapid victory in Desert Storm, which surprised many observers, led to widespread military reform as the world saw the new capabilities of precision air power, and it ushered in today's era of high-tech air warfare.
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EAN: 9781472846969
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Book Title: Desert Storm 1991 : the Most Shattering Air Campaign in History
Number of Pages: 96 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Item Height: 0.2 in
Topic: Asia / General, Military / United States, Military / Persian Gulf War (1991), Military / Aviation
Publication Year: 2022
Illustrator: Yes, Tooby, Adam
Genre: History
Item Weight: 10.6 Oz
Author: Richard P. Hallion
Item Length: 9.7 in
Item Width: 7.2 in
Book Series: Air Campaign Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback