Persian Gulf War category: 297 books
Storm Over Iraq
Air Power and the Gulf War
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
An incisive account of the Persian Gulf War, Storm Over Iraq shows how the success of Operation Desert Storm was the product of two decades of profound changes in the American approach to defense, military doctrine, and combat operations. The first detailed analysis of why the Gulf War could be fought...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book tells the compelling story of how the Army helped to bring a proud but battered country back to life - Kuwait after it was liberated during Operation Desert Storm. Our soldiers found themselves performing...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This Air Command and Staff College Gulf War Logistics research project is a paper that analyzes how logisticians, led by Lieutenant General William G. "Gus" Pagonis, put logistics theory into...
by Robert Serocki
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
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 extreme mental and physical sacrifices a soldier must make during war. I want to show how our own government,...
The Threatening Storm
What Every American Needs to Know Before an Invasion in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003
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 a new confrontation with Saddam Hussein.
For the past fifteen years, as an analyst on Iraq...
by Dr Rob Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A concise history of Saddam’s road to ruin the denouement of Iraq.“The Lowdown: A Short History of the First Gulf War” gives an explanation of the causes of the Gulf War in 199091 and how the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s shaped the political and diplomatic landscape that led to a confrontation between...
Leaders in War
West Point Remembers the 1991 Gulf War
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2005
Leaders in War present unique first-person perspectives across the spectrum of American combat operations during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. From division commanders to platoon leaders, the authors deliver an insider's view of tough leadership challenges, tragic failures, and triumphant victories. Leaders in War captures the essence of the post-Cold
On Course to Desert Storm
The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Contributions to Naval History No. 5..
Traces the history of the United States Navy and the Persian Gulf from 1800 to the end of the Iran-Iraq War in 1988.
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2015
General Scales and his team wrote Certain Victory to provide both the public and the military a clear picture of the Army's role in the Gulf War. The breadth and speed of Desert Storm operations left many participants unaware of the larger context in which they acted. This book is for them. To capture...
Storm Tossed
How a U.S. Serviceman Won the Battle of Sex Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
By the time Jake was nineteen he was viewing X-rated videos to feed an insatiable lust that was looking for an opportunity to act out. He found plenty of opportunities in Mediterranean ports while serving as an aviation ordinanceman aboard the USS America. At a time when the Gulf War was unfolding,...
Vaccine A
The Covert Government Experiment That's Killing Our Soldiers--and Why GI's Are Only the First Victim
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
In this provocative look at the US military from the Persian Gulf War through the 2003 invasion of Iraq, investigative journalist Gary Matsumoto contends that an anthrax vaccine dispensed by the Department of Defense was the cause of Gulf War Syndrome and the origins of a massive cover-up. Matsumoto...
War in the Gulf, 1990-91
The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2001
For most Americans, the war against Iraq lingers in memory as a vast morality play, a drama offering ready made heroes and villains: a glowering dictator in military uniform, hapless Kuwaiti refugees with tales of persecution, plucky pilots with high-tech wizardry, and a defiant American president,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
From the presidency of George Washington through the beginning of the Cold War, Americans have forged and maintained ties with the peoples of the Middle East. These bonds strengthened in 1949 with the establishment of the Middle East Force and a permanent U.S. naval presence in the Arabian Gulf. They...
by Jean Edward Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
George Bush's War by Jean Edward Smith chronicles the complete history of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Smith takes the reader from the politics of Desert Shield to the military action of Desert Storm.
"Expressing constant misgivings about presidential warmaking, [Smith] provides a virtual...