The Unseen War

Allied Air Power and the Takedown of Saddam Hussein
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-61251-311-9
Verlag: Naval Institute Press

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 814 g

<em>The Unseen War</em> offers a comprehensive assessment of the air contribution to the three weeks of major combat that ended the rule of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein in 2003. Unlike in the earlier instance of Operation Desert Storm in 1991, the role of allied air power in the nation’s second war against Iraq was not apparent to most observers, since the land offensive began concurrently with the air offensive and the overwhelming majority of the reporters who accompanied allied forces into combat were embedded with ground units. Even today, the air war history of Operation Iraqi Freedom remains largely unreported, despite the fact that American air assets, aided substantially by the air contributions of the United Kingdom and Australia, played a key role in enabling the prompt achievement of the coalition’s immediate campaign goals. Lambeth’s work fills a long-standing gap in the literature on modern warfare by telling that story of the role of airpower for the first time in the fullest detail.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lambeth, Benjamin S.

Über Autor(innen)

<strong>Benjamin S. Lambeth</strong> is a Senior Fellow with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a position he assumed in 2011 following a 37-year career at the RAND Corporation. A long-time specialist in international security affairs and air warfare, he has extensive flight experience in more than 40 different combat aircraft types worldwide and is the author of <em>The Transformation of American Air Power</em>. He lives in San Miguel, CA.