Persian Gulf War category: 297 books

Cover of Determination And Effectiveness Of Wwii Strategic Bombing Strategy
by Colonel T. Tracey Goetz
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

With the collapse of France in 1940, American (US) and British (UK) leadership became keenly aware that the continued security of their nations required the defeat of the Axis powers, particularly Germany. The Allies chose a strategy utilizing a combination of various military actions, most notably...
Cover of 125th MP Bn Unit Missions
by SGM Rene Torres
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

This Personal Experience Paper will discuss 125th MP Bn missions during Operation Just Cause, Operation Desert Storm/Desert Shield, Operation Joint Guardian, and Operation Enduring Freedom. I will discuss the numerous roles each unit conducted while assigned to these battalions and brigades. These...
Cover of Breaking The Mold: Tanks In The Cities [Illustrated Edition]
by Kendall D. Gott
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

Illustrated with 30 maps. Few lessons are as prevalent in military history as is the adage that tanks don’t perform well in cities. The notion of deliberately committing tanks to urban combat is anathema to most. In Breaking the Mold: Tanks in the Cities, Mr. Ken Gott disproves that notion with...
Cover of “Cry Havoc And Let Slip The Dogs Of War”. Special Operations And The Military Working Dog
by Major Joseph F. Whelan
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

This paper examines the potential for military working dogs to support Special Operations Forces (SOF). Modern technology has not eliminated the operational prospective for the military employment of dogs. Canine olfactory superiority, advanced hearing, and ability to detect movement offer significant...
Cover of “First Red Clausewitz”: Friedrich Engels And Early Socialist Military Theory
by Major Michael A. Boden
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

Between the European revolutions of the mid-nineteenth century and the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Friedrich Engels functioned as a writer, analyst, and critic concerning military affairs. His most essential commentaries were published, disseminated, and internalized by supporters of the proletarian...
Cover of When Sun-tzu Met Clausewitz: the OODA Loop and the Invasion of Iraq
by Daniel Ford
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014

John Boyd was a fighter pilot in the Korean War, an instructor at the US Air Force Fighter Weapons School, and arguably America's greatest military thinker of the 20th Century. His concept of the OODA Loop helped guide the US military during two wars against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. This 4000-word 'long...
Cover of People’s War, People’s Army; The Viet Cong Insurrection Manual For Underdeveloped Countries
by Vo Nguyen Giap
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

“Vo Nguyen Giap, Southeast Asia’s most successful Communist general, Minister of Defense and Commander in Chief of North Vietnam’s army, shares with Premier Khrushchev a conviction that the future holds many “just wars of national liberation.” This volume stresses the climate of Asia, Africa,...
Cover of No Shells, No Attack! - The Use Of Fire Support By 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines During The 1982 Falkland Islands War
by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas R. Hogan
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

The 1982 British campaign to recapture the Falkland Islands was a naval operation of relatively short duration. Nevertheless, many of the British lessons learned are applicable to the U.S. Army. No notice deployment, assignment as part of a naval landing force, and combat operations beyond the range...
Cover of Parallel Campaigns: The British In Mesopotamia, 1914-1920 And The United States In Iraq, 2003-2004
by Major Michael Andrew Kappelmann
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

The Mesopotamia Campaign of World War I and Operation Iraqi Freedom of the Global War on Terrorism took place on the same geographic and human terrain. Though separated by nearly a century, a significant number of points of comparison are evident, particularly with regard to strategic and operational...
Cover of Wanat : Combat Action In Afghanistan, 2008 [Illustrated Edition]
by Combat Studies Institute
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

Includes 16 maps, photos and plans “The Battle of Wanat occurred on July 13, 2008, when about 200 Taliban guerrillas attacked NATO troops near the Quam,(large clan village), of Wanat in the Waygal district in Afghanistan’s far eastern province of Nuristan. The position was defended primarily by...
Cover of Argentina's Tactical Aircraft Employment In The Falkland Islands War
by Major Gabriel V. Green
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

The aerial forces of the Argentinean Air Force and Navy found themselves in a complex, unenviable position during the 1982 conflict with Great Britain for possession of the Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas. Despite Argentinean numerical superiority, the modern weaponry and tactical proficiency of the...
Cover of Peeling The Onion: The Iraqi Center Of Gravity In Desert Storm
by Major Collin A. Agee
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

This monograph examines the concept “center of gravity” as applied by coalition forces during Operation Desert Storm. Center of gravity is an integral part of operational art and figures prominently in current U.S. doctrine. It begins by tracing the concept’s inception in Clausewitz’s On War,...
Cover of U.S. Marines In Battle: Al-Qaim, September 2005-March 2006 [Illustrated Edition]
by Dr. Nicholas J. Schlosser
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

Includes more than 30 photos, maps and plans This study examines a counterinsurgency campaign conducted during the Iraq War between the fall of 2005 and spring of 2006 in the district of al-Qaim on the Syrian border. In many ways, the struggle to clear and hold the district marked a turning point...
Cover of Air Campaigns: Fact Or Fantasy?
by Major Mark H. Skattum
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

This monograph addresses the concept of air operations and their relationship to campaigns. It determines whether air actions should be considered as operations or campaigns. The monograph first addresses the definitions of the terms “campaign” and “operation,” and then establishes the criteria...
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