The Importance Of Desert Storm

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When you are talking about the battlefield level of significance, it proves many things. Like the fact that a heavy air campaign alone is mostly ineffective in doing significant degradation to the fighting power of an army, even if the campaign utterly immobilized it, under pain of death if it tries to move or deploy out of hiding.

It also has proved the Iraqi army had no idea of tactics and even less of Strategic thinking. The Iran’s had proved as much during their 8 year war, holding off the Iraqi army despite it being far better equipped and heavier in the critical ways, but Desert Storm was far superior firepower and technology to the mix on the force opposing the Iraqi's, as well as even better strategic and tactical thinking.

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