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The unseen war : allied air power and the takedown of Saddam Hussein / Benjamin S. Lambeth ; foreword by Gen. Moseley, T. Michael USAF (Ret.)
- Title
- The unseen war : allied air power and the takedown of Saddam Hussein / Benjamin S. Lambeth ; foreword by Gen. Moseley, T. Michael USAF (Ret.)
- Author
- Lambeth, Benjamin S.
- Publication
- Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2013]
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- Additional Authors
- Moseley, T. Michael
- Description
- xxiv, 435 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- The Unseen War offers a comprehensive assessment of the air contribution to the three weeks of major combat that ended the rule of Iraq's Saddam Hussein in 2003. Unlike in the earlier instance of Operation Desert Storm in 1991, the role of allied air power in the nation's second war against Iraq was not apparent to most observers, since the land offensive began concurrently with the air offensive and the overwhelming majority of the reporters who accompanied allied forces into combat were embedded with ground units. Even today, the air war history of Operation Iraqi Freedom remains larg.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The road to war -- CENTCOM's air offensive -- The Allies' contribution -- Key accomplishments -- Problems encountered -- Toward a new era of warfare.
- ISBN
- 9781612513119 (paperback : alk. paper)
- 1612513115 (paperback : alk. paper)
- 9781612513126 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2013017743
- OCLC
- 830367209
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library