Decisive Force: Strategic Bombing in the Gulf War

by U.S. Air Force History and Museums Program, Richard G. Davis, U.S. Air Force History Office and Museums

In the Persian Gulf War the U.S. Air Force (USAF) demonstrated that a new era in strategic bombing had begun. Air power could now destroy key portions of a country's military and economic infrastructure without resort to nuclear weapons and heavy bombers and with low losses to both the attacker and enemy civilians. This achievement rested on technology, which both increased bombing accuracy and decreasedthe effectiveness of enemy defenses, and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1508405581
• ISBN13: 9781508405580
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.0" x 10.0"