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Chapters (25)
  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Introduction
  4. I - Into the Wild Blue
  5. Chapter 1 - Every Man a Tiger
  6. Chapter 2 - The Big Lie
  7. Chapter 3 - The Vision of Bill Creech
  8. II - Shield in the Sky
  9. Chapter 4 - Mission to Jeddah
  10. Chapter 5 - CENTCOM Forward
  11. Chapter 6 - Planning the Storm
  12. Chapter 7 - Band of Brothers and Sisters
  13. III - The Thousand-Hour War
  14. Chapter 8 - Storm!
  15. Chapter 9 - Hits and Misses
  16. Chapter 10 - Lost and Found
  17. Chapter 11 - Punch and Counterpunch
  18. Chapter 12 - A Day in the War
  19. Chapter 13 - The Ten Percent War
  20. Chapter 14 - Shock and Awe
  21. Chapter 15 - Building Coalitions
  22. Chapter 16 - Beyond Iraqi Freedom
  23. Acknowledgements
  24. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  25. INDEX

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Khaled bin Sultan. Desert Warrior: A Personal View of the Gulf War by the Joint Forces Commander. New York: HarperCollins, 1995.

Kitfield, James. Prodigal Soldiers: How the Generation of Officers Born of Vietnam Revolutionized the American Style of War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Levins, John. Days of Fear: The Inside Story of the Iraqi Invasion and Occupation of Kuwait. London: Motivate Publishing, 1997.

McMaster, H. R. Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.

Powell, Colin L. My American Journey. New York: Random House, 1995.

Schwarzkopf, Gen. (Ret.) H. Norman. It Doesn’t Take a Hero: The Autobiography. New York: Bantam, 1992.

Tennant, Lt.-Col. J. E. In The Clouds Above Baghdad: The Air War in Mesopotamia 1916-1918. Nashville: The Battery Press, 1992. Originally published 1920.

Ullman, Harlan, and James P. Wade et al. Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance. Washington: The Center for Advanced Concepts and Technology, 1996.

INDEX

INDEX

A-6 aircraft, loss of

A-10 aircraft (“Warthogs”)

Battle of Khafji

mission creep

rescue mission

AAA (anti-aircraft fire)

ABCCC (Airborne Command, Control, and Communications)

Abdullah (UAE colonel)

Abrams tanks

Abu Dhabi Emirate

Abu Ghraib

AC-130 aircraft, Battle of Khafji

ACC (Air Combat Command)

Accidents to aircraft

ACE Team

Action Officer (AO), Horner as

Aerial victories

Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom)

AFSPACE

Aggressor training

AH-1 aircraft, Battle of Khafji

AH-64A Apache attack helicopters

Air bases, Saudi Arabia

Airborne Corps

Air campaign

doubts of briefing

planning of

The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat, Warden

Air Combat Command (ACC)

Aircraft, technological revolution

Aircraft accidents

Aircraft carriers, deployment of

Air defense, against Iraqi threat

Air Defense Command

Air defense system, Iraqi, destruction of

Air Defense Weapons Center

Air Force, Iraqi

Air Force, U.S.

Horner and

inefficient policies

military doctrine

problems of

revolutionary changes

in Saudi Arabia

and space

temper tents

and Vietnam War

Air Force academy, Saudi

Air Force officers, Schwarzkopf and

Air Force Specialty Code

Air interdiction

Air Liaison Officers (ALOs)

Airlift aircraft

Airline, military, Desert Shield

Air National Guard

Air Operations Support Center

Airpower

future of

potential of

Powell and

Air Rescue Coordination Center

Air Rescue Service

Air sovereignty, CINC NORAD and

Air strikes, beginning of war

Air strike targets

INSTANT THUNDER plan

Iraqi units

NBC weapon sites

Scud missile sites

Air superiority

Air support for land forces

Air Tasking Orders. See ATOs

Air-to-air training

Red Flag program

Air-to-ground attack aircraft

Air Traffic Control System

Air Training Command

Al Dhafra, munitions storage area

Al-Firdus command-and-control bunker

Al-Khafji, Saudi Arabia See also Battle of Khafji

Al Kharj Air Base

Allied aircraft, battle plan

ALOs (air liaison officers). See FACs (forward air controllers)

Alpino, Mario

Al-Qaeda

America, trust in

American culture, Saudis and

American qualities

Amphibious operations into Kuwait

Anderson, Jack

ANG RF-4C aircraft, accident

Anti-radiation missiles

Apache aircraft

Appearance standards

Applied Technology Incorporated (ATI)

Arab air forces, and Coalition

Arab fighter pilots

Arab leaders, Horner’s view of