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ContentsIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vStrategic Setting: The Army on the Eve of War in the Gulf . . . . . . . 1Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3The First Deployments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Support of the Deployed Forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Host-Nation Support and Contracting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Transportation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12“Deforger 90” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Mobilizing the Reserve Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Planning for the Offensive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Operation Desert Storm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Attack on Khafji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34The 100-hour Ground War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Day One: 24 February 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Day Two: 25 February 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Day Three: 26 February 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49Day Four: 27 February 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Cease-fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Epilogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Map Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73Further Readings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75No.Maps1. Desert Shield/Desert Storm Area of Operations: 1990–1991 . . viii2. Supplying the Troops: December 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143. Preparing for the Ground War: January–February 1991 . . . . . . . 304. Ground War: Situation 24 February 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36iiiPage
No.Page5. Ground War: Situation 25 February 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466. Ground War: Situation 26 February 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527. Ground War: Situation 27 February 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58IllustrationsGeneral H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Lt. Gen. John J. Yeosock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Lt. Gen. Gary E. Luck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6The 82d Airborne Division at Pope Air Force Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Maj. Gen. William G. Pagonis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Tapline Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Lt. Gen. Frederick M. Franks Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21VII Corps assembly area in Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22MOPP Medics in the Desert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Troops training in trenches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Patriot missile battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33M1A1 Abrams tank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40The 1st Armored Division pushes north . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Desert Storm, 101st Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49Multiple-launch rocket system battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Night Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Burning oil fields in Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Illustrations courtesy of the following sources: pp. 7, Randall M.Yackiel; 16, LaDona S. Kirkland; 22, 33, 40, 43, 51, 63, Defense VisualInformation Directorate; 28, Randall R. Anderson. All other illustrationsfrom Department of the Army files.iv
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