CK - Persian Gulf War 1

“During Desert Storm the Air Force and the Armor forces were the thunder but the 101st was the lightning.” General Norman Schwarzkopf, April, 1991. Camp Eagle II, Saudi Arabia Operation Desert Storm……続きを見る

This photographic history of Operation Desert Storm vividly captures the drama and humanity of each stage of the conflict. In the early 1990s, the American military led a coalition of United Nations……続きを見る

A definitive technical guide to the Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk, the world's first operational, stealth interdictor. Developed by the legendary Lockheed 'Skunk Works,' the F-117 Nighthawk was a phenom……続きを見る

A definitive technical guide to the Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk, the world's first operational, stealth interdictor. Developed by the legendary Lockheed 'Skunk Works,' the F-117 Nighthawk was a phenom……続きを見る

In the three decades following Vietnam, the veteran A-6 Intruder remained the most powerful strike aircraft available to the US Navy and Marine Corps. Engaged in operations over Cambodia, Lebanon an……続きを見る

What is it like to wrestle with a Dragon or dance with a Lady? This is the challenge all U-2 pilots must face when flying the Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady. When first seeing the aircraft, the plane rese……続きを見る

"The stirring story of the achievements of the Victor, told by those who flew it and fixed it . . . well illustrated with spectacular photographs." ー Oxford Mail The Handley Page Victor was the thi……続きを見る

Industrialization mobilization planning is an old idea in the history of modern warfare. In the United States, in fact, the National Defense Act of 1920 required the Federal Government to conduct su……続きを見る

"This bipartisan study, coauthored by Aspin, the Democratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and Dickinson, its ranking Republican member, aims to teach Congress the lessons of the Gu……続きを見る

A comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to modern sporting rifles and how to use them, cartridges for small, medium and big game, barrels, stocks, sights, scopes, shooting techniques, where to hit ……続きを見る

A detailed look at the day-to-day life of a pilot serving during the Persian Gulf War against Iraq. This book is based upon a journal Jim Schreiner kept during his deployment to the Persian Gulf reg……続きを見る

Long Range Surveillance Units (LRSUs) provide a unique and necessary capability to today's commanders and to commanders who will fight in the future. In looking to the future operational environment……続きを見る

This thesis analyzes the intelligence collection and dissemination in urban environments at the maneuver battalion. The methodology attempts to assess the organic intelligence assets and capabilitie……続きを見る

Operation Eagle Claw was tactically feasible, operationally vacant, and strategically risky. This paper examines the failed hostage rescue mission conducted by the U.S. in Iran during April of 1980.……続きを見る

This paper examines the long development of precision guided bombs to show that the accuracy attained in Desert Storm was an evolution not a revolution in aerial warfare. This evolution continues an……続きを見る

Includes 14 illustrations of the units, planes and personnel of the Eagle Squadrons During the perilous years of 1940-1941, a small band of Americans joined the Royal Air Force to help England resis……続きを見る

The most eloquent and personal story of a young man at war since Geoffrey Wellum's FIRST LIGHT Until a winter evening in 1998 Nathaniel was just another history student on a comfortable career traje……続きを見る

"I am awed by my destructive power. With a small squeeze of the gun trigger under my right index finger, I can rip the turret off a thirty-ton battle tank and throw it 200 feet across the desert, wh……続きを見る

To many observers in the West, events in Iran leading up to the revolution in 1979 took a mystifying and seemingly irrational course. In this National Security Essay, Jack Miklos, a foreign service ……続きを見る

In Banking on Baghdad, New York Times and international bestselling author Edwin Black chronicles the dramatic and tragic history of a land long the center of world commerce and conflict. Tracing th……続きを見る

This book is a true account of my experience as a Marine in the Gulf War. I decided to tell my story in hopes of developing, in the reader, a deeper respect for America's veterans by revealing the e……続きを見る

Offers a conceptual pathway for U.S. policymakers to begin recalibrating America's security role to reverse what has appeared to be a widening gap between U.S. ends and means, now and in the future.……続きを見る

Colonel Paddock traces the origins of Army special warfare from 1941 to 1952, the year the Army's special warfare center was established. While the Army had experience in psychological warfare, the ……続きを見る

The Department of Defense has been successfully exploiting rapidly developing advances in information technology for military gain. On tomorrow's multidimensional battlefieldーor "battlespace"ーthe ……続きを見る

In The Threatening Storm, Kenneth M. Pollack, one of the world’s leading experts on Iraq, provides a masterly insider’s perspective on the crucial issues facing the United States as it moves toward ……続きを見る

In his brilliant, bestselling novels, Tom Clancy has explored the most timely military and security issues of our generation. Now he takes readers deep into the operational art of war with this insi……続きを見る

This monograph develops an alternative approach to counterinsurgency, and explains how the current narratives in the field of counterinsurgency are not completely accurate. Counterinsurgents only ne……続きを見る

General Chuck Horner commanded the U.S. and allied air assetsーthe forces of a dozen nationsーduring Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and was responsible for the design and execution of one of the mo……続きを見る

Current Special Forces doctrine is very limited concerning the conduct of guerrilla warfare combat operations in urban environments. The focus of the current doctrine is on conducting combat operati……続きを見る

This paper will provide a historical view of the events of 1st Squad, 1st Platoon of Bravo Company, 2/187th Infantry BN, 101st ABN Division, Fort Campbell, KY. I will provide insight of the operatio……続きを見る