Air Power and the Gulf War
An acknowledged aerospace historian, Mr. Richard P. Hallion is an associate for the Smithsonian Institution employed in the research division. A former Charles A. Lindbergh Professor of Aerospace History, Mr. Hallion has written or edited thirteen other books, including The Wright Brothers: Heirs of Prometheus (1978), Test Pilots: The Frontiersmen of Flight (1988), and The History of Battlefield Air Attack, 1911-1945 (1989), while professor at the Army War College. Mr. Hallion writes Storm over Iraq from an academic perspective, using military history and the ascendancy of air power as the focus point for his book. Mr. Richard P. Hallion's Storm over Iraq opens with the origins of air power since World War I and its subsequent development into the current aircraft and weaponry of the 21st century. Mr. Hallion traces the history of air-combat techniques employed in the battle over Iraq, analyzes the weaponry used (including the remarkable F-117A stealth fighter), and points out the shortcomings in the Allies' performance, notably in combat search and rescue. Mr. Hallion makes it a point to directly correlate these technological advancements in military machinery to the route of
Hallion uses detailed examples to illustrate the progression of air and fire power from World War I to the Gulf War. We were now able to conduct a military operation with a highly precise, focused attack anywhere around the globe, with only a fraction of the personal needed for a massive ground assault. Dated March 1, 1993, it stated, "Hallion's account of the Persian Gulf War, which marked the ascendancy of air power in warfare was excellent. Lastly, the author fails to acknowledge sufficiently that air power is not a panacea. Hallion, "The success of air power in the Gulf War was neither universally predicted nor assumed in the weeks and months before Desert Storm broke. He argues that this lack of confidence wasn't the fault of air power, but instead it stemmed from two outside influences that hindered the effectiveness of tactical air power to suppress and expel enemy ground forces (Hallion 117).
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