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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

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