Desert Redleg: Artillery Warfare in the First Gulf War

by L Scott Lingamfelter

Book Overview

When Saddam Hussein's Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, triggering the First Gulf War, a coalition of thirty-five countries led by the United States responded with Operation Desert Storm, which culminated in a one-hundred-hour coordinated air strike and ground assault that repelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait. Though largely forgotten in descriptions of the war, an eight-day barrage of artillery fire made this seemingly rapid offensive possible...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813179203
• ISBN13: 9780813179209
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"