
Managing Command and Control in the Persian Gulf War
- 192 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Managing Command and Control in the Persian Gulf War
About this book
During Desert Shield, the Air Force built a very complicated organizational architecture to control large numbers of air sorties. During the air campaign itself, officers at each level of the Central Command Air Forces believed they were managing the chaos of war. Yet, when the activities of the many significant participants are pieced together, it appears that neither the planners nor Lt. Gen. Charles A. Horner, the Joint Force Air Component Commander, knew the details of what was happening in the air campaign or how well the campaign was going. There was little appreciation of the implications of complex organizational architectures for military command and control. Against a smarter and more aggressive foe, the system may well have failed.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Black Hole and Its Impact in Desert Shield
- 3 The TACC and GAT in Desert Storm
- 4 Bomb Damage Assessment and Command and Control of the Air Campaign
- 5 Lt. Gen. Charles A. Horner as the First Joint Force Air Component Commander
- 6 Conclusion
- Appendix: "Black Hole" Strategic Air Campaign Planners
- Notes on Sources
- Index