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  title info:
    title: Cradle of conflict
    sub title: Iraq and the birth of modern U.S. military power
  name:
    name part: Knights, Michael.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxiii, 462 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
  table of contents: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The challenge -- Raising the shield -- Iraqi "saber-rattling" -- Building the forces: Operation Desert Shield -- Intelligence preparation of the battlefield -- Knowing the enemy -- Defense-in-depth: Iraqi land-warfare capabilities -- "Kari": Iraq's integrated air-defense system -- Iraq's long-range strike capabilities -- Cold warriors in the desert -- Forging the sword -- Initial planning -- Role of air power in offensive planning -- Audacious plan -- Desert Storm -- Strategic attack -- Iraqi withholding of strategic air-defense efforts -- Empty battlefield: Scud-hunting in 1991 -- Costs and benefits of broader strategic targeting -- On balance: the strategic air campaign -- Desert Saber -- Air-land battle -- Cluttered battlefield -- "Plinking" tanks and other targets in the KTO -- Bomb-damage assessment in Desert Storm -- Assessing and controlling the preparation of the battlefield -- Ground war begins -- Failure to trap the Republican Guard -- Postwar characterization of Desert Storm -- The war between the wars -- After the storm -- U.S. responses to ongoing Iraqi resistance -- Failure of the 1991 uprisings against Saddam -- Postwar resistance to the cease-fire terms -- Creation of a southern no-fly zone -- Building to crisis -- January 1993 strikes on Iraq -- "Tomahawk diplomacy" -- June 1993 cruise-missile strike -- "Basra breakout" -- Iraq's October 1994 feint toward Kuwait -- Struggle to maintain containment -- Saddam's invasion of Kurdistan -- Operation Desert Strike -- Fallout from the era of "tomahawk diplomacy" -- "Cheat and retreat" Iraq's resistance to U.N. inspections -- Protecting the U-2 flights over Iraq -- Development of enlarged coercive options -- "Cheat-and-retreat" crises -- Disarming Iraq -- Striking the concealment mechanism -- Bulking out the target sets -- On regime change -- Last "cheat-and-retreat" episode -- Operation Desert Fox -- Reflections on Desert Fox -- Prelude to war -- The no-fly zones after Desert F…
  note: Michael Andrew Knights.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 417 - 441) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-iq---
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Persian Gulf War, 1991
  subject:
    topic: Iraq War, 2003-2011
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History, Military
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Iraq
    topic: History, Military
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Insurgency
    geographic: Iraq
  classification: DS79.76 .K62 2005
  classification: 956.7044/24/0973
  identifier: 1591144442 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 2005021002
  identifier: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0516/2005021002.html
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 050722
    record change date: 20151103050900.0
    record identifier: in00002107223