From Shield to Storm: High-Tech Weapons, Military Strategy, and Coalition Warfare in the Perisan Gulf

by Dunnigan, James F.; Bay, Austin

• ISBN13: 9780595178735
• ISBN10: 0595178731
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Iuniverse Inc

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
Acknowledgments	p. 9
Maps and Diagrams	p. 17
List of Charts	p. 18
For the Benefit of Readers: Weapons Ranges	p. 19
Storm Signals	p. 21
Roots of Conflict	p. 23
The Speech: February 24, 1990	p. 27
Whose Map, Whose History?	p. 29
SIDEBAR: Imperialism in the Middle East	p. 32
SIDEBAR: Breaking the Rules, Writing New Rules	p. 33
The UN by the Numbers: 666 Was No Armageddon	p. 34
The Iraqi Dilemmas	p. 37
The Coalition Prepares for War	p. 44
Kuwait	p. 44
Saudi Arabia	p. 45
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)	p. 47
Egypt	p. 48
France	p. 49
United Kingdom	p. 50
United States	p. 50
Turkey	p. 52
SIDEBAR: Goldwater-Nichols: What a Difference a New Chain of Command Makes	p. 53
SIDEBAR: George Bush's Secret	p. 55
SIDEBAR: Coalition Politics on the Battlefield	p. 57
Why Fight? War and Peace on the Home Front	p. 62
Counting Oil Barrels and Petrodollars: The Economic Imperatives	p. 62
War Fever, Peace Fever, Resolution Temperatures: The Political Imperatives	p. 64
Diplomatic Reasons for U.S. Involvement	p. 71
Military Reasons for U.S. Involvement	p. 72
Could Kuwait Have Been Liberated Without Fighting?	p. 73
The Iraqi Army, or, Why Counting Rifles Doesn't Work	p. 74
Organization and Equipment of the Iraqi Army	p. 76
Ground-Combat Division Types	p. 79
Brigade Organization	p. 82
Battalion Organization	p. 83
Independent Brigade Operations	p. 83
The Long-Range Rocket Troops: Missile Units	p. 83
Iraq's Army Arsenal	p. 85
Where the Tanks Were	p. 85
Where the Guns Were	p. 85
Manpower Strength	p. 86
Mobility	p. 86
Military Background of the Iraqi Army	p. 87
The Experience Factor by the Numbers	p. 90
Iraq Is Divided into Three Parts	p. 91
A Larger Lebanon	p. 95
Iraq the Nation	p. 96
Buying Loyalty	p. 101
SIDEBAR: Instruments of Control	p. 103
Living, and Dying, Beyond One's Means	p. 103
Riding the Tiger	p. 104
War with Iran	p. 105
Data Capsule: Iraq	p. 106
The Desert Kingdom: Saudi Arabia	p. 108
The Kuwait Connection	p. 111
The British Connection	p. 112
The Lion of Arabia	p. 114
The Bedouin Lands and Why Arabs Don't Like Bedouin	p. 117
The House of Sa'ud's Greatest Treasure	p. 119
Data Capsule: Saudi Arabia	p. 122
Kuwait, and the Other Kuwaits	p. 123
Life on the Gulf	p. 124
Democracy in Kuwait	p. 126
The Other Coastal Gulf Arab States	p. 127
Kuwait and the Gulf States in the Later 1990s	p. 132
Data Capsule: Kuwait	p. 132
Desert War	p. 135
From Shield to Storm: Beware the Ides of January	p. 137
The Air War: Part 1	p. 145
High-Tech and High Talent	p. 146
The Original Plan	p. 154
A Sortie Is a Sortie Is a Sortie...	p. 154
Why Airpower Was So Decisive	p. 156
The ATO (Air Tasking Order) in the Persian Gulf War	p. 159
The Air War: Major Lessons	p. 160
Other Aspects of the Air War	p. 168
Cost of the Air War	p. 176
Background: Air Force Organization and Operation	p. 178
Collateral Damage	p. 179
Thoughtful Destruction	p. 181
Air Force Glossary	p. 181
Patriots and Scuds	p. 183
Sidebar: Air Defense Gets Some Respect (Finally)	p. 188
The Air War: Part 2	p. 190
Aircraft Types and What They Do	p. 190
Intelligence and Battle Management Aircraft	p. 190
Electronic Warfare Aircraft	p. 199
Tanker Aircraft	p. 200
Air-Superiority Aircraft	p. 202
Bomber Aircraft	p. 204
Ground Support	p. 206
Transports	p. 208
Search and Rescue	p. 210
Aircraft Weapons	p. 211
Air-to-Ground Weapons	p. 211
Air-to-Air Weapons	p. 215
Ground Attack Fire-Control Systems	p. 219
Guided Bombs	p. 221
Sidebar: The Targets	p. 225
Sidebar: Handoff	p. 227
How to Fight in the Persian Gulf: Strategy and Tactics	p. 227
Iraqi Strategic Concerns in the Kuwait Theater of Operations	p. 229
Operational and Tactical Problems in Desert War	p. 231
The Downside	p. 235
The Limitations of Fortifications and Deception	p. 237
Logistics: The Key to Victory	p. 238
HETs and the Army of Excellence	p. 241
Deception	p. 242
The Ground War: Airland Battle in the Sand	p. 244
Initial Iraqi Buildup and Invasion of Kuwait	p. 245
The Saudi Panic Stage	p. 247
The Initial Allied Buildup Phase	p. 247
The Defensive Stage	p. 251
The Shift to "Full Offensive Capability" Stage	p. 253
Desert Storm, Phase 1: "Cut It Off and Kill It"	p. 255
Desert Storm, Phase 2: AirLand Battle	p. 263
After the Storm	p. 283
Tactical Analyses	p. 284
Sidebar: Who Destroyed What	p. 284
Sidebar: Psychological Operations	p. 287
Sidebar: The Weapons of the Ground War	p. 294
Training Coalition Ground Forces	p. 305
The Naval War	p. 307
The Naval Role in the Embargo	p. 308
Royal Navy in Action	p. 309
Naval Aviation and the Air War	p. 309
Carrier Aircraft Operations	p. 309
Marine Corps Air Wing Operations	p. 312
Naval Ground Forces	p. 312
Other Aspects of Naval Operations	p. 313
Naval Mine-Clearing Operations: The Numbers	p. 316
Orders of Battle	p. 318
Iraqi Order of Battle	p. 319
Deployment of the Iraqi Army by Corps	p. 320
Iraqi Air Force	p. 323
Iraqi Navy	p. 323
Allied Air Order of Battle	p. 324
Allied Naval Order of Battle	p. 327
Allied Ground Order of Battle	p. 331
United States Central Command	p. 333
Postwar, June 1991	p. 342
U.S. Army Europe	p. 342
The Dead	p. 342
War Myths, War Games, and War Correspondents	p. 343
Myths, Misconceptions, and Revelations	p. 345
The Iraqi Army	p. 345
Sorting Out the Numbers in the Air War	p. 346
The U.S. Intelligence Advantage	p. 347
The Reconnaissance Advantage	p. 348
Electronic Warfare	p. 349
Special Operations Forces	p. 350
Deception	p. 351
Iraq Was Not Vietnam, and Vietnam Was Not Iraq	p. 351
High-Tech Weapons	p. 352
Chemical and Nuclear Weapons	p. 352
What Airpower Can and Cannot Do	p. 354
Battle Damage Assessment	p. 355
Fuel Air Explosives	p. 356
The Iraqi Republican Guard Force Corps	p. 357
Iraqi Fortifications	p. 358
Kuwait War Slang	p. 360
The Crucial Role of Noncombat Airpower	p. 362
Noncombat Losses	p. 363
Who Made the Iraqi Armed Forces Possible	p. 364
The Mail-Order War	p. 365
Necessity Is the Mother of Expediency	p. 365
The Aircraft Factory	p. 366
Bad Luck and Bad News	p. 366
The Nine Nuclear Labors of Saddam	p. 367
Infrared	p. 369
Which Weapons and Doctrine Didn't Work	p. 369
One Big Bomb Is Better Than a Lot of Little Ones	p. 370
Special Operations Forces	p. 371
Casualties You'll Never Hear About	p. 373
The Prudent, The Devious, or Deceived Intelligence Analysts	p. 374
Intelligence Breakdowns and Assessments	p. 377
Friendly Fire Losses	p. 378
Defending the Fort	p. 380
Good News/Bad News Summary	p. 381
Not Another Vietnam	p. 384
The Better Part of Valor	p. 385
My, Aren't We Well Behaved?	p. 386
Not So Well Behaved	p. 387
Premonitions	p. 387
Heroic Forecasts	p. 387
Lethal Leftovers of War	p. 388
Women at War	p. 389
Not the Quickest	p. 390
Delayed Casualties	p. 390
Er, I Believe That's One of Ours	p. 390
Accuracy in Weather Reporting	p. 391
The Real Desert Storm	p. 391
The Other "Iraqi Armies"	p. 392
The Russian Influence	p. 392
Highway Traffic	p. 393
The Sixty-Year Chemical-Warfare Truce	p. 393
The Arab-Israeli Wars	p. 394
Lessons of Grenada	p. 395
Reinventing Doctrine and the Operational Art	p. 395
The Biology of Biological Warfare	p. 396
The Perilous Playing Field	p. 396
Would You Settle for Fifteen?	p. 396
The Intelligence Troops	p. 397
The Real Biological Warfare	p. 397
Tomahawk Effectiveness	p. 398
The Babylonian Captivity of Kuwait	p. 398
The Bedouin View of the War	p. 399
Patriots and Expatriates	p. 400
The NATO Coalition	p. 401
Blood for Iron (and Silicon)	p. 401
Predicting the Past: The Military Game	p. 403
Building a Persian Gulf War Game	p. 405
Political Game	p. 413
Let the Games Begin	p. 414
The Political Game	p. 420
The Iraqi Game	p. 420
The Coalition	p. 434
Airprint Battle: The Adventures of the Press Brigade	p. 446
The Ghosts of Vietnam and Waging War in the "Strategic Information Environment"	p. 447
AirPrint Battle: Press Focus by the Week	p. 451
The Baghdad Bunker Bombing	p. 453
Up Front with the PAOs: Pool Sharks, Briefing Bummers	p. 456
Talking Heads and Truculent Prattle	p. 461
Quick Appendix: AirPrint Battle: War-gaming as a Tool in Explanatory Journalism	p. 464
After the Storm	p. 469
Scenarios of Hell, Scenarios of Hope: The After Effects	p. 471
Problems	p. 475
Opportunities	p. 476
Specific Historical Considerations	p. 478
New World Chaos	p. 479
Jihad, and Other Old Middle Eastern Woes Enhanced	p. 481
The Egyptian-Saudi Axis	p. 482
Permanent Intifada--Revived Arab-Israeli Conflict and Increased U.S.-Israeli Strain	p. 483
Patchwork Development, Patchwork Peace	p. 484
New World Order	p. 485
Saddam's Outcome	p. 486
Sidebar: New Political Accommodations in Palestine	p. 487
Afterword	p. 492
Sources and Further Reading	p. 495
Index	p. 496
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