Chapters (25)
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Introduction
- I - Into the Wild Blue
- Chapter 1 - Every Man a Tiger
- Chapter 2 - The Big Lie
- Chapter 3 - The Vision of Bill Creech
- II - Shield in the Sky
- Chapter 4 - Mission to Jeddah
- Chapter 5 - CENTCOM Forward
- Chapter 6 - Planning the Storm
- Chapter 7 - Band of Brothers and Sisters
- III - The Thousand-Hour War
- Chapter 8 - Storm!
- Chapter 9 - Hits and Misses
- Chapter 10 - Lost and Found
- Chapter 11 - Punch and Counterpunch
- Chapter 12 - A Day in the War
- Chapter 13 - The Ten Percent War
- Chapter 14 - Shock and Awe
- Chapter 15 - Building Coalitions
- Chapter 16 - Beyond Iraqi Freedom
- Acknowledgements
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
Fahd, King of Saudi Arabia
Failures:
fear of
in Gulf War
in Vietnam War
Falcon AFB, Colorado
Families of military personnel
Fantle, Sam
Faris (UAE Colonel)
Farr, Jack
Fear
Iraqi people controlled by
Feeley, John F.
58th Fighter Wing
Fighter flights
Fighter generals
Fighter Mafia
Fighter pilots
Bush as
Horner as
training of
views of Vietnam War
widows of
Fighter Weapons Center
Fighter Weapons School (FWS)
Fighting Falcons. See F-16C aircraft
Fire trenches
1st MEF (Marine Expeditionary Force)
1st Tactical Fighter Wing (TFW)
Flight commanders
Flight leaders
Horner as
Flight training
FLOT (Front Line of Own Troops)
Flying, Horner and
Flying Squadron Operations
Fogerty, Bill
Fong (Major, aide to Yeosock)
48th Tactical Fighter Wing
mission of
and oil valve bombing
tank plinking
Forward air controllers. See FACs
4th Tactical Fighter Wing
Fourteenth Air Force
405th Fighter Wing
474th TWF, Horner as commander
492d Tactical Fighter Squadron
Fox, Jeff “Sly,”
Frag (Fragmentary Order)
See also Air Tasking Orders (ATOs)
Franks, Fred
and target selection
Franks, Tommy
Freeman, Chas
Free press
French forces in Gulf War
French training of Iraqi pilots
Friendly fire
Friendship, Arabs and
FROG (Free Over Ground Rocket) units in Kuwait
FSCL (Fire Support Coordination Line)
Fuel storage
Fuel supplies, Iraqi, destruction of
Functional Commanders in Chief
Functional commands
Marines and
Funding for space operations
Funerals
FWS (Fighter Weapons School)
Gaua service
GBU-15 bombs
GCC (Graduated Combat Capability) system
Generals, U.S.:
Horner’s view of
SAC
Geosynchronous (GEO) orbits
Germ warfare
inoculations against
Gibson, Mark “Hoot,”
Giddens, George
Gitchell, George
Gitchell, Mary Jo
See also Horner, Mary Jo Gitchell
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Glosson, Buster
battle plan
daily routine
Goff, Randy
Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act
Schwarzkopf and
and Special Operations
Gordon, Michael
GPS. See Global Positioning System
GPS bombs
GR-1 Tornadoes (aircraft), losses
Graduated Combat Capability (GCC) system
Graduated Pressure strategy
Grater (Air Force Captain)
Griffith, Tom
Ground campaign, plan for
Ground forces, air support for
Ground Forward Air Controllers (FACs)
Ground war, Desert Storm
Gulf Cooperation Council
Gulf War
air campaign plan
buildup for
countdown to opening
Creech’s changes and
end of
technological revolution and
television and
See also Desert Shield; Desert Storm
Gulf War II, See Iraqi Freedom
Gunnery school
“GUTS Airline,”
“G” warmup exercise
Haiphong, North Vietnam
Hall, Mike
Hallion, Dick
Hamad (Bharani Major)
Hamad, Muhammad al-
negotiations with Horner
Hanoi, North Vietnam
Hanson (Chaplain)
Harawi (Saudi Major General)
HARM (high-speed anti-radiation missile)
Harr, Charlie
Harriers (aircraft)
Harris, Hunter
Hartinger, Jim, Jr. “Little Grr,”
daily routine
Hartinger, Jim, Sr. “The Grr,”
Hartney, Jim (White Fang)
Harvey, Bernard
Hawker Hunter (British aircraft)
HC-130 aircraft
Henadi (Saudi General)
Henry, Gus
Henry, Larry “Puba,”
Henry, Lenny
Heroes
“Highway of Death,”
Hill (Air Force General)
Hine, Patty
Hinton, Bruce “Balls,”
Hohemann (Air Force Lieutenant)
Holland, Donnie
Honor, of fighter pilots
Hooches, Thailand
Hornberg, Hal
Horner, Chuck
and A-10s
and command relationships
and Creech
changes by
and Gulf War
air campaign
aircraft accidents
Battle Damage Assessment
battlefield interdiction
Battle of Khafji
briefings
civilian casualties
close air support