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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Challenge | |
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| Raising the Shield | |
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| Iraqi "saber-rattling" | |
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| Building the forces: Operation Desert Shield | |
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| Intelligence preparation of the battlefield | |
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| Knowing the enemy | |
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| Defense-in-depth: Iraqi land-warfare capabilities | |
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| "KARI": Iraq's integrated air-defense system | |
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| Iraq's long-range strike capabilities | |
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| Cold Warriors in the desert | |
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| Forging the Sword | |
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| Initial planning | |
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| Role of air power in offensive planning | |
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| An anudacious plan | |
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| Desert Storm: Strategic Attack | |
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| Iraqi withholding of strategic air-defense efforts | |
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| Empty battlefield: Scud-hunting in 1991 | |
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| Costs and benefits of broader strategic targeting | |
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| On balance: The strategic air campaign | |
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| Desert Saber: Air-Land Battle | |
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| The cluttered battlefield | |
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| "Plinking" tanks and other targets in the KTO | |
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| Bomb-Damage Assessment in Desert Storm | |
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| Assessing and controlling the preparation of the battlefield | |
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| Ground war begins | |
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| Failure to trap the Republican Guard | |
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| Postwar characterization of Desert Storm | |
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| The War Between the Wars | |
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| After the Storm: US Responses to Ongoing Iraqi Resistance | |
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| Failure of the 1991 uprisings against Saddam | |
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| Postwar resistance to the cease-fire terms | |
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| Creation of a southern no-fly zone | |
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| Building to crisis | |
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| January 1993 strikes on Iraq | |
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| "Tomahawk Diplomacy" | |
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| June 1993 cruise-missile strike | |
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| "Basra breakout"-Iraq's October 1994 feint toward Kuwait | |
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| Struggle to maintain containment | |
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| Saddam's invasion of Kurdistan | |
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| Operation Desert Strike | |
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| Fallout from the era of "Tomahawk Diplomacy" | |
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| "Cheat and Retreat": Iraq's resistance to UN inspections | |
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| Protecting the U-2 flights over Iraq | |
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| Development of enlarged coercive options | |
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| "Cheat-and-Retreat" crises | |
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| Disarming Iraq | |
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| Striking the concealment mechanism | |
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| Bulking out the target sets | |
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| On regime change | |
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| Last "Cheat-and-Retreat" episode | |
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| Operation Desert Fox | |
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| Reflections on Desert Fox | |
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| Prelude to War: The No-Fly Zones After Desert Fox | |
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| Centralized execution in Operation Southern Watch | |
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| Decentralized rollback in Operation Northern Watch | |
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| Putting the brakes on Northern Watch | |
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| Devolution and evolution of Iraqi air defenses by 2001 | |
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| February 2001 strike | |
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| Trying to back off in Operation Southern Watch | |
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| Ending Resistance | |
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| Transitioning to War | |
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| Planning Operation Iraqi Freedom | |
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| Operation Southern Focus and the slide to war | |
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| Failure of "Cheat and Retreat" in 2003 | |
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| Start of Operation Iraqi Freedom | |
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| Ground before air-Reordering Operation Iraqi Freedom | |
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| "Shock and Awe?"-Neutering the strategic air campaign | |
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| The March on Baghdad | |
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| The lunge northward | |
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| Running into quicksand | |
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| Failed deep strike against the Medina division | |
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| "Smackdown": Bombing through the sandstorm | |
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| Entering the cities | |
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| Shaping the coming battle for Baghdad | |
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| The End of Saddam Hussein's regime | |
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| Ending Resistance | |
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| The Challenge Project | |
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| Broader insurgency | |
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| Defensive and offensive coalition responses | |
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| Calibrating force | |
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| "No-go" zones and Iraq's season of battles | |
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| Securing the elections | |
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| Epilogue: America's fifteen-year war in Iraq | |
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| Analyzing Iraqi resistance | |
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| Exposure of U.S. military weaknesses | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |