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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

See also SAR (search-and-rescue)

Combat units, tests of

Command and Control, Iraqi Freedom

Command-and-control system

Iraqi

Command center, combined

Commanders, and military plans

Commanders in Chief

Commando Solo

Command relationships

Common purpose, need for

Communications

buildup for war

in coalitions

disruption of

Iraqi, destruction of

Communication satellites

Compass Call (EC-130 aircraft)

Component commanders, December briefing

Computer-Aided Force Management System (CAFMS)

Computer technology

Control, as goal of warfare

Control and Reporting Center (CRC)

Control and Reporting Posts (CRP)

Control of air

Conventional Forces

Cooperation, among military services

U.S. and Arab forces

Copper Flag

Corder, John

Cornum, Rhonda

Corps commanders, ground forces

and target selection

Costs of air defense

Creech, W.L. “Bill,”

Air Force changed by

Crew chiefs

Crigger, Jim

Battle of Khafji

daily routine

Crist, George

Cruise missiles

C3IC

Cullivan, Sean

Current Operations

Current plans

Davies, Ray

DCINC (Deputy CINC)

D Day Plan

Debriefings

Decentralization, Creech and

Deception operation

Decision-making

Defense Support Program (DSP) satellites

Defensive air operations

de Gaulle, Charles

de la Billiere, Peter

Department of Defense (DOD) policies

Deployment of forces

Deptula, Dave

daily routine

Deputy Commanders

Desert Shield

Desert Storm

battlefield interdiction

Creech’s changes and

ground war

planning stages

rescues

space forces and

See also Iraqi Freedom

Desertion, by Iraqi troops

Deterrence, military

Dhahran Air Base

Scud attacks

Dietz (Air Force captain)

Dinners, official

Dip bombers

Direct Air Support Center

Discipline, military

problems

Dissimilar training

Dive Toss System

Divine purpose, Horner and

Dixon, Bob “Tidewater Alligator,”

Doman, Al

Donaldson, Sam

Dong Ha, North Vietnam

Donovan, Jack

“Doofer book,”

Downing, Wayne

Drug problems

Drummond, Gentner

Dugan, Mike

Duration of war, estimations

Duty officers

Dwight D. Eisenhower, USS

E-3 AWACS aircraft

EAC (Eastern Area Command, Saudi)

EARNEST WILL (Arabian Gulf operation)

Eberly, Dave

EC-130 aircraft (Commando Solo)

EC-130H aircraft (Compass Call)

ECM. See Electronic countermeasures

Economies of scale, centralization and

Edminsten, Bob

EF-111 aircraft

and “Baghdad Billy,”

Eglin AFB, Air Warfare Center

Egos:

Coalition and

of fighter pilots

Eighth Air ForceBombardment Wing

82d Airborne Division

823 Red Horse Squadron

Electronic countermeasures (ECM)

ELF-1 AWACS aircraft

Elitism of rated personnel

Embargo of Iraqi shipping, Navy and

Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan)

Enemy headquarters, attacks on

Enemy, knowledge of

Enlisted Air Force members, rated

Environment, control of

Environmental destruction by Iraqis

ER-142 (ATI black box)

Eskan Village

EWOs (electronic weapons officers)

Exchange ratios, Vietnam War

Exploration of space

F-4 aircraft, combat air patrol

F-4D aircraft, Dive Toss System

F-4E aircraft, Red Flag program

F-5 aircraft (Tiger Jet)

F-15 aircraft

and “Baghdad Billy,”

F-15C aircraft

Saudi

F-15E aircraft

and low-level tactics

tank plinking

WSOs

F-16 aircraft

Bharaini

Horner’s routine flights

Killer Scouts

leaflets dropped by

new technology

F-16C aircraft

F-18 aircraft

F-22 aircraft

F-80 aircraft

F-86 aircraft

F-100 aircraft

F-100D aircraft

F-105 aircraft (“Thuds”)

combat missions

shot down by MiG-17s

F-111 aircraft

and low-level tactics

oil valve bombing

F-111D aircraft

F-111F aircraft

F-117 aircraft

beginning of war

F-117A aircraft, “Puba’s Party,”

F/A-18 aircraft

FACs (forward air controllers)