Richard P. Hallion holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Maryland, and has completed specialized governmental and national security programs at the Federal Executive Institute, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has been a Curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum; a Historian with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the U.S. Air Force; the Harold Keith Johnson Chair of Military History at the Army War College; the Charles Lindbergh Professor at the National Air and Space Museum; a Senior Issues and Policy Analyst for the Secretary of the Air Force; the Air Force Historian; a Senior Advisor for Air and Space Issues for the Air Force's Directorate for Security, Counterintelligence, and Special Programs; a Special Advisor for Aerospace Technology for the Air Force Chief Scientist; a Senior Advisor to the Science and Technology Policy Institute of the Institute for Defense Analyses; a Research Associate in Aeronautics for the National Air and Space Museum; and a Trustee of Florida Polytechnic University.

He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Royal Aeronautical Society, and the Royal Historical Society, and an Honorary Member of the Order of Daedalians who has flown as a mission observer in a wide range of military aircraft. He lives in Florida.

Richard Hallion is hugely authoritative on modern air power, and explains this complex operation in concise but very readable detail.

INTRODUCTION
CHRONOLOGY
ATTACKER'S CAPABILITIES
-The airpower of a global coalition
-Ordnance
-Training
DEFENDER'S CAPABILITIES
-Iraq's military machine
-The invading armed forces
-Saddam's air power
-Organization
-Air defenses
CAMPAIGN OBJECTIVES
-Resolution and resolve
THE CAMPAIGN
-42 days to Kuwait City
-Final countdown
-Opening night: an assessment
-Grappling in the Central Blue
-Preventing resurgence: the shelter-busting campaign
-Per Ardua: Tornado at war
-The Iraqi SAM threat: suppressed but not eliminated
-Targeting Iraq's power infrastructure and forces
-Weather
-The battle against the Scuds
-Clash of arms at al-Khafji: Saddam's calculated lashing-out
-Victory at sea: securing the northern Persian Gulf
-Phase III: "preparing the battlefield" or "destroying the
battlefield?"
-The intelligence debate
-The al-Firdos bunker bombing
-Phase IV: to G-Day and afterwards
-Endgame
AFTERMATH AND ANALYSIS
FURTHER READING
INDEX