[PDF] Gulf War Air Power Survey Volume I Planning And Command And Control eBook

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Page : 410 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 1993
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From 16 January through 28 February 1991, the United States and its allies conducted one of the most operationally successful wars in history, a conflict in which air operations played a preeminent role. The Gulf War Air Power Survey was commissioned on 22 August 1991 to review all aspects of air warfare in the Persian Gulf for use by the United States Air Force. The Survey has produced reports on planning, the conduct of operations, the effects of the air campaign, command and control, logistics, air base support, space, weapons and tactics, as well as a chronology and a compendium of statistics on the war. The Survey was just that, an attempt to provide a comprehensive and documented account of the war. It is not a definitive history: that will await the passage of time and the opening of sources, that were not available to Survey researchers. Nor is it a summary of lessons learned. It concentrates on an analysis of the operational level of war in the belief that this level of warfare is at once one of the most difficult to characterize and one of the most important to understand. This first report in this volume deals with the genesis and development of the plan for the air campaign of the Gulf War as executed in Operation Desert Storm: the second report explains how the United States air forces were organized, what challenges faced the command and control process, and how the commanders dealt with them.

Author : Eliot A Cohen, Dr
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 2012-06-27
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ISBN : 9781478146889

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The focus of air planners was to envision the use of air power in achieving coalition objectives and military strategy. This report begins with the genesis of that plan with some background to place it within an historical perspective and traces in development through what existed on 16 January 1991.

Author : Office of Air Force History
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 14,57 MB
Release : 2015-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781508562146

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The focus of air planners was to envision the use of air power in achieving coalition objectives and military strategy. This report begins with the genesis of that plan with some background to place it within an historical perspective and traces its development through what existed on 16 January 1991. The planning task force addresses three specific questions. First, what were the origins of the air campaign plan that was developed prior to the outbreak of the Gulf War in late July 1990? In brief, there were two: one, a series of contingency plans, the 1002 family of plans developed by planners for the region. In early August, however, the plan proved unable to provide the answers to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and threatened attack of Saudi Arabia. The second set of origins was the scenario rehearsed during Exercise Internal Look, a Central Command (CENTCOM) wargame conducted only days before the Kuwaiti invasion. Though time prevented planners from implementing solutions to problems encountered, the exercise did focus their attention on the Gulf and provided them with a precursor of the final air campaign.

Author : Eliot A. Cohen
Publisher : Department of the Air Force
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Persian Gulf War, 1991
ISBN : 9780160429279

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Eliot Cohen directed the 5 volume survey. Richard J. Blanchfield, et al. authored this V. 4. Consists of two reports. The first report, Weapons, Tactics, and Training, focuses on the impact of these three elements on the application of air power projected by the United States and Coalition forces in the Gulf War. The second report, Space Operations, was classified and reduced to a three page precis. Examines the planning and training for the use of space systems, space mobilization, military utility, command and control, and the role of commercial space systems and receiver equipment.

Author : William F. Andrews
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
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ISBN : 1428912568

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For nearly two decades the United States Air Force (USAF) oriented the bulk of its thinking, acquisition, planning, and training on the threat of a Soviet blitzkrieg across the inter German border. The Air Force fielded a powerful conventional arm well rehearsed in the tactics required to operate over a central European battlefield. Then, in a matter of days, the 1990 invasion of Kuwait altered key assumptions that had been developed over the previous decade and a half. The USAF faced a different foe employing a different military doctrine in an unexpected environment. Instead of disrupting a fast paced land offensive, the combat wings of the United States Central Command Air Forces (CENTAF) were ordered to attack a large, well fortified, and dispersed Iraqi ground force. The heart of that ground force was the Republican Guard Forces Command (RGFC). CENTAF's mission dictated the need to develop an unfamiliar repertoire of tactics and procedures to meet theater objectives. How effectively did CENTAF adjust air operations against the Republican Guard to the changing realities of combat? Answering that question is central to this study, and the answer resides in evaluation of the innovations developed by CENTAF to improve its operational and tactical performance against the Republican Guard. Effectiveness and timeliness are the primary criteria used for evaluating innovations.

Author : Robert L. Pfaltzgraff
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 43,67 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Air power
ISBN : 1428992812

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This collection of essays reflects the proceedings of a 1991 conference on "The United States Air Force: Aerospace Challenges and Missions in the 1990s," sponsored by the USAF and Tufts University. The 20 contributors comment on the pivotal role of airpower in the war with Iraq and address issues and choices facing the USAF, such as the factors that are reshaping strategies and missions, the future role and structure of airpower as an element of US power projection, and the aerospace industry's views on what the Air Force of the future will set as its acquisition priorities and strategies. The authors agree that aerospace forces will be an essential and formidable tool in US security policies into the next century. The contributors include academics, high-level military leaders, government officials, journalists, and top executives from aerospace and defense contractors.