Название: On Target: Organizing and Executing the Strategic Air Campaign Against Iraq
Автор: Richard G. Davis
Издательство: United States Air Force
Страниц: 397
Формат: PDF
Размер: 22 мб
Качество: среднее
Язык: Английский
Год: 2002
The war in the Persian Gulf in 1991 capped an era of USAF modernization and enhanced readiness begun in the late 1970s and that continued through the 1980s. The long lead-time weapons acquisition and training programs, begun a decade or more earlier, came to fruition against a far different opponent and in an unforeseen locale than that envisioned by their creators. The force designed to counter the superpower foe of the Cold War, the USSR, never fought a direct battle against that enemy during the existence of the Soviet Union. Instead, the USAF fought the first war of the so-called New World Order, a war that had as much in common with the colonial wars of the late nineteenth century as it had with the high-technology wars of the late twentieth century.
