Operation Desert Storm

Resources

• GulfLINK Intelligence Documents [just the good parts]
• Desert Storm Imagery Intelligence Archive

• Conduct of the Persian Gulf War Final Report to Congress, April 1992 Pursuant to Title V of the Persian Gulf Conflict Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-25) [6100 kb PDF]
• Conduct of the Persian Gulf War: Chapter Six - The Air Campaign
• The Patriot Missile Performance in the Gulf War
• Airpower in the Gulf War Air and Space Power Mentoring Guide Essays (Volume 2)
• Operation Desert Storm Air War (Letter Report, 07/02/96, GAO/PEMD-96-10)
• Operation Desert Storm: Evaluation of the Air Campaign GAO/NSIAD-97-134, June 12, 1997
• "Baghdad: The Urban Sanctuary in Desert Storm?" William M. Arkin, Air Power Journal Vol. XI, No. 1 (Spring 1997): 4-20.
• Airpower in Operation Desert Storm USAF FACT SHEET 91-03 Special Edition - May 1991
• Reaching Globally, Reaching Powerfully: The United States Air Force in the Gulf War A Report - September 1991
• Russian Military Perceptions of the Gulf War Air Campaign Dr D Marshall-Hasdell, RMA Sandhurst: Conflict Studies Research Centre, 1995.
• DESERT STORM: The Soviet View by Major Gilberto Villahermosa, Foreign Military Studies Office
• DESERT SHIELD AND DESERT STORM OBSERVATIONS Directory of evaluation and Standardisation US (June 1991)
• Baron Antoine Henri Jomini Ant The Ground Offensive of the Persian Gulf War by Major M. F. Campbell, 1997

Web Sites

• Fog of War by Billy Arkin @washingtonpost.com
• Operation Desert Storm Homepage
• Desert-Storm.com
• PBS Frontline: The Gulf War
• Poli 378 - The Persian Gulf War
• George Bush Presidential Library has an extensive collection of documents on Iraq

• PERSIAN GULF WAR Lotsa.Links@TheAmericanWarLibrary

• GulfLINK - DOD for Gulf War Illnesses
• Gulf War Veteran Resource Pages
• Chronic Illnet Persian Gulf War Syndrome
• Gulf War

Defense Department Documents

• Report to Congress on the Conduct of the Persian Gulf War
  • Chapter 6 THE AIR CAMPAIGN
  • Chapter 7 THE MARITIME CAMPAIGN
  • Chapter 8 THE GROUND CAMPAIGN

• Aspin Report

Army Documents

• THE WHIRLWIND WAR
• Team Redstone's Role in Operation DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM [missiles, including Patriot]
• XVIII AIRBORNE CORPS IN OPERATIONS: AN ANNOTATED CHRONOLOGY
• CMH GULF WAR BIBLIOGRAPHY
• GULF WAR DOCUMENTS (GULFLINK)
• GULF WAR PHOTOGRAPHS
• OPERATIONS DESERT SHIELD AND DESERT STORM KEY PERSONNEL LISTS

Navy Documents

• "The U.S. Navy in Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm"
• United States Naval Forces in Desert Shield and Desert Storm: A Select Bibliography (also available as .pdf file)
• Naval Units participating in Desert Shield and Desert Storm

Air Force Documents

• Gulf War Air Power Survey
  • Summary Report (792 Kb .doc file)
  • Vol I: Planning & Command and Control (1.7 Mb .doc file)
  • Vol II: Operations & Effects and Effectiveness (2.0 Mb .doc file)
  • Vol III: Logistics & Support (1.9 Mb .doc file)
  • Vol IV: Weapons, Tactics, and Training & Space Operations (566 Kb .doc file)
  • Vol V, Part II: Chronology of the Gulf War (690 Kb .doc file)
• Airpower Against an Army -- Challenge and Response in CENTAF's Duel with the Republican Guard by William F. Andrews School of Advanced Airpower Studies June 1995
• Joint Operations in the Gulf War: An Allison Analysis P Mason Carpenter School of Advanced Airpower Studies June 1994
• John Boyd and John Warden: Air Power's Quest for Strategic Paralysis David S. Fadok School of Advanced Airpower Studies June 1994
• Oz Revisited: Russian Military Doctrinal Reform in Light of their Analysis of Desert Storm Edward J. Felker School of Advanced Airpower Studies June 1994
• Heart of the Storm - The Genesis of the Air Campaign against Iraq Richard T. Reynolds, Colonel, USAF Air University Press January 1995
• Thunder and Lightning - Desert Storm and the Airpower Debates Edward C. Mann III, Colonel, USAF Air University Press April 1995

Articles

• Surveying Gulf War Airpower Thomas A. Keaney Joint Forces Quarterly Autumn 1993 [707 kb PDF] The information gathered during the course of a survey commissioned by the Secretary of the Air Force confirms the dominant role of airpower while illustrating that the indirect rather than the direct effects of bombing were perhaps of more importance. Moreover, it is apparent from the results of this survey that inaccuracies are inherent in wartime assessments and that one must contend with incomplete knowledge of the target base and enemy countermeasures.
• Unity of Control: Joint Air Operations in the Gulf James A. Winnefeld and Dana J. Johnson, Joint Forces Quarterly Summer 1993 [589 kb PDF] Unresolved doctrinal issues and some residual controversy over roles and missions did not surface because of the abundant air assets in the theater. Accordingly, decisions about allocating resources never became contentious.
• Desert Shield/Desert Storm Employment or Reserve Component: Extracts of Lessons Learned The United States Naval War College Operations Department [116 kb PDF]
• Reviews - Bull's Eye: The Assassination and Life of Supergun Inventor Gerald Bull Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists October 1992: by James Adams. Times Books, 1992.
• Welcome to hyperwar by ERIC H. ARNETT Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists September 1992
• The Gulf War: Cleanly fought. By Nicholas G. Fotion Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists September 1991 Vol. 47, No. 7
• The Gulf War: Not so clean. By George Lopez Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists September 1991 Vol. 47, No. 7
• ...and the dirty little weapons. By Paul F. Walker With Eric Stambler Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists May 1991 Vol. 47, No. 4