The Unseen War
Allied Air Power and the Takedown of Saddam Hussein
Posted on rand.org Aug 13, 2013
The Unseen War offers a comprehensive assessment of the role of allied air power in the three weeks of major combat that ended the rule of Iraq's Saddam Hussein in 2003. Unlike in the earlier Operation Desert Storm in 1991, the contribution of air power in the second war was less readily apparent to most observers, since the land offensive began concurrently with the air offensive and the overwhelming majority of the deployed journalists who reported on the war were embedded with ground units. Lambeth's work fills a longstanding gap in the literature on modern warfare by telling, in full, the story of the role of air power for the first time. This book is published in cooperation with the RAND Corporation and sponsored by the commander of U.S. Central Command Air Forces, who was responsible for planning and conducting the 2003 air offensive for Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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- Copyright: RAND Corporation
- Publisher: Naval Institute Press
- Availability: Non-RAND
- Year: 2013
- Paperback Pages: 480
- Paperback ISBN/EAN: 978-1-6125-1311-9
- Document Number: CB-533
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