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. Sortiesmore than 100,000 of themwere 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 weaponsTomahawk and Hellfire missiles, stealth aircraft, and laserguided smart bombsand the results were impressive. The Coalition swiftly established air superiority and laid the foundation for the successful fiveday ground campaign that followed. The results were also highly visible as the American people watched the bombings unfold in grainy green videogamelike 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 difficultyand the true achievementof 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.

Binding: Hardcover;290 pages; Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc; Classification: N/A; Weight: 680.19 g; Dimensions: N/A

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