is an associate for the Smithsonian Institution employed in the research division. A former Charles A. Lindbergh Professor of Aerospace History, Mr. Hallion has written or edited thirteen other books, including The Wright Brothers: Heirs of Prometheus (1978), Test Pilots: The Frontiersmen of Flight (1988), and The History of Battlefield Air Attack, 1911-1945 (1989), while professor at the Army War College. Mr. Hallion writes Storm over Iraq from an academic perspective, using military history and the ascendancy of air power as the focus point for his book.

Mr. Richard P. Hallion's Storm over Iraq opens with the origins of air power since World War I and its subsequent development into the current aircraft and weaponry of the 21st century. Mr. Hallion traces the history of air-combat techniques employed in the battle over Iraq, analyzes the weaponry used (including the remarkable F-117A stealth fighter), and points out the shortcomings in the Allies' performance, notably in combat search and rescue. Mr. Hallion makes it a point to directly correlate these

technological advancements in military machinery to the route of

Hallion, Richard P. Storm over Iraq: Air Power and the Gulf War.

conventional missions. Mr. Hallion states that, "the obsession of nuclear warfare from the end of World War II, many individuals involved in the military high command the false assumption that future conflicts would take this form of conflict" (Hallion 104). Mr. Hallion is correct to point out that future conflicts were to take the opposite shape; they were "limited", non-nuclear, conventional conflicts.

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As a result, it is the most reliable pro-air power text now available on the

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and fire power include such weapons as the 'smart' bombs, the Patriot surface-to-air missile, the A-10 "wart hog", and the BGM-109 Tomahawk.

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