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Airpower against an army : challenge and response in CENTAF's duel with the Republican Guard
- Title
- Airpower against an army : challenge and response in CENTAF's duel with the Republican Guard / William F. Andrews.
- Author
- Andrews, William F.
- Publication
- Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala : Air University Press, [1998]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Air University (U.S.). Press.
- Description
- ix, 132 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Colonel Andrews concentrates on tactical innovation during war. He examines the extent to which USAF doctrine prepared the US Central Command Air Forces (CENTAF) for its mission against the Republican Guard Forces Command (RGFC). He describes how CENTAF adjusted air operations against Iraq's RGFC in the 1990-91 invasion of Kuwait. CENTAF instituted six significant tactical innovations in one week that required its aviators to create new tactics in the midst of combat operations. Colonel Andrews evaluates those innovations because they enabled CENTAF to satisfy theater objectives. He recommends that the Air Force identify means to measure air operations against land forces during peacetime because the press of war does not provide time for reflection and analysis.
- Series Statement
- CADRE paper
- Uniform Title
- CADRE paper
- Alternative Title
- Challenge and response in CENTAF's duel with the Republican Guard
- Subject
- United States. Air Force > History > Persian Gulf War, 1991
- United States. Air Force
- 1991
- Persian Gulf War, 1991 > Aerial operations, American
- Persian Gulf War, 1991 > Campaigns > Kuwait
- Military operations, Aerial > American
- Military campaigns
- Luftwaffe
- Luftangriff
- Golfkrieg 1990-1991
- Elitetruppe
- Kuwait
- Irak
- USA
- Genre/Form
- Government publications – United States.
- History.
- Note
- "February 1998."
- At head of title: College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education, Air University.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-132).
- Contents
- The innovation imperative -- The adversaries -- The plan : 3 August 1990-15 January 1991 -- Clash of arms : 17-26 January 1991 -- CENTAF adapts : 27 January-5 February 1991 -- Attrition war : 6-23 February 1991 -- Ground war : 24-28 February 1991 -- The keys to innovation -- Implications.
- LCCN
- 98148362
- OCLC
- ocm39079946
- 39079946
- SCSB-14486734
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library