Gulf War Air Power Survey. Volume 4. Weapons, Tactics, and Training and Space Operations
Abstract
From 16 January through 28 February 1991, the United States and its allies conducted one of the most operationally successful wars in history, a conflict in which air operations played a preeminent role. The Gulf War Air Power Survey was commissioned on 22 August 1991 to review all aspects of air warfare in the Persian Gulf for use by the United States Air Force. The Survey has produced reports on planning, the conduct of operations, the effects of the air campaign, command and control, logistics, air base support, space, weapons and tactics, as well as a chronology and a compendium of statistics on the war. The Survey was just that, an attempt to provide a comprehensive and documented account of the war. It is not a definitive history: that will await the passage of time and the opening of sources, that were not available to Survey researchers. Nor is it a summary of lessons learned. It concentrates on an analysis of the operational level of war in the belief that this level of warfare is at once one of the most difficult to characterize and one of the most important to understand. In the classified version, this volume consists of two reports: Weapons, Tactics, and Training, which focuses on Coalition as well as Iraqi air Forces and Iraqi surface-based air defenses in the Gulf War, and Space Operations, which examines the use of space systems, mobilization of equipment for space operations, and the role of commercial space systems within a military context. The report is not published in the unclassified volume
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1993
- Accession Number
- ADA279744
Entities
Organizations
- Johns Hopkins University