The Road to Safwan: The 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry in the 1991 ...

Bibliography
For such a short conflict, the 1991 Persian Gulf War generated
an amazing array of books and articles. In addition, this was the
first war supported by computers, electronic mail, and copy
machines, resulting in the production of many briefing charts,
after-action reports, and government documents generated
from the field. This bibliography represents only a fraction of
the information available, but should assist future scholars in
refining their own research plans.
Government Documents
Each command that participated on Operation Desert Storm
generated a large number of diverse documents. Originally,
most of these documents were part of the VII Corps After Action
Report archived at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Today,
many are also found on the Internet and are beginning to arrive
for processing at the National Archives. These documents consist
of daily staff journals, operation orders, fragmentary orders,
after-action reports, and briefing slides. Specific citations
are contained in the notes.
The United States Army of 1991 was just completing a revolution
in military art that began in the 1970s. The culmination
of this thought was Field Manual 100-5, Operations (May 1986). It
was probably one of the most staffed, examined, and used doctrinal
publications of all time and generally reflects the thinking
of the army in the field. Only recently published was Field Manual
71-100, Division Operations (June 1990). In general, the pace
of doctrinal development at the tactical level had placed a variety
of old manuals and a variety of service-school drafts in the
hands of the users. Fortunately, these documents generally re-
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