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Certain Victory is a unique, clearest report of the US army's performance during Gulf War. It was researched and written under the author's instruction by a group of eight officers drawn from many different combat Gulf War. This begins by chronicling the Army's remarkable regeneration in the two decades after Vietnam the changes that were the foundation of the Desert Storm victory. Each chapter leads off with a compelling personal combat story that brings you right into battle alongside individual soldiers and puts the conflict into human perspective. The focus of Certain Victory is the operation and tactical levels of war. The political and diplomatic decision making that resulted in the Army's deployment decision to the South West Asia is mentioned incidentally and only to the degree that it sets the stage for the conflict. Certain Victory's treatment of other services and other nation's contribution to the defeat of Saddam Hussein intentionally focuses on those services and countries that most directly and immediately impacted on the Army's mission. Unfortunately, time and space did not permit us to include all units and key personalities. Certain Victory is a unique, clearest report of the US army's performance during Gulf War. It was researched and written under the author's instruction by a group of eight officers drawn from many different combat Gulf War. This begins by chronicling the Army's remarkable regeneration in the two decades after Vietnam the changes that were the foundation of the Desert Storm victory. Each chapter leads off with a compelling personal combat story that brings you right into battle alongside individual soldiers and puts the conflict into human perspective. The focus of Certain Victory is the operation and tactical levels of war. The political and diplomatic decision making that resulted in the Army's deployment decision to the South West Asia is mentioned incidentally and only to the degree that it sets the stage for the conflict. Certain Victory's treatment of other services and other nation's contribution to the defeat of Saddam Hussein intentionally focuses on those services and countries that most directly and immediately impacted on the Army's mission. Unfortunately, time and space did not permit us to include all units and key personalities.

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In this unprecedented account of the intensive air and ground operations in Iraq, two of America’s most distinguished military historians bring clarity and depth to the first major war of the new millennium. Reaching beyond the blaring headlines, embedded videophone reports, and daily Centcom briefings, Williamson Murray and Robert Scales analyze events in light of past military experiences, present battleground realities, and future expectations.The Iraq War puts the recent conflict into context. Drawing on their extensive military expertise, the authors assess the opposing aims of the Coalition forces and the Iraqi regime and explain the day-to-day tactical and logistical decisions of infantry and air command, as British and American troops moved into Basra and Baghdad. They simultaneously step back to examine long-running debates within the U.S. Defense Department about the proper uses of military power and probe the strategic implications of those debates for America’s buildup to this war. Surveying the immense changes that have occurred in America’s armed forces between the Gulf conflicts of 1991 and 2003—changes in doctrine as well as weapons—this volume reveals critical meanings and lessons about the new “American way of war” as it has unfolded in Iraq.

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