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Overview. Understand the causes, outcome and impact of Operation Desert Storm Understand how military aviation and national defense strategy fundamental changed as the result of Operation Desert Storm. Classroom Exercise. What Everyone Didn’t Know.

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  1. Overview • Understand the causes, outcome and impact of Operation Desert Storm • Understand how military aviation and national defense strategy fundamental changed as the result of Operation Desert Storm

  2. Classroom Exercise

  3. What Everyone Didn’t Know • The success of Operation Desert Storm’s air campaign was a culmination of a shift in airpower strategy enabled not only by precision weapons, but the very nature in which airpower was organized, planned and even led. • Development of the Joint Force Air Component Commander • Development of the Air Tasking Order

  4. Air Tasking Order (ATO) • The JFACC's overall strategy for the air campaign was set forth in the Master Attack Plan (MAP) – the daily strategy or “schedule” was the ATO • Weapon system experts from across the JFACC staff worked together with coalition partners, intelligence, logistics, and weather experts to outline every part of an aircraft’s flight – from take-off to landing.

  5. Air Tasking Order (ATO) Simultaneously Day 2 Day 3 Day 4… Boyd’s OODA Loop on Steroids?

  6. Type of Aircraft, Take-off and Land Time Call Sign: Oderon Target Location, Time Over Target, Weapons Used Air Refueling Plan and Support Plan WarTonnage /Length / Tonnage Per Month WW II: 2,150,000 / 45 months / 47,777.78 Korea: 454,000 / 37 months / 12,270.27 Vietnam: 6,162,000 / 140 months / 44,014.29 Gulf War: 60,624 / 1.5 months / 40,416.00

  7. Impact of the Air Campaign • Operation Desert Storm’ Commanders identified the Iraqi Republican Guard as a vital target. • Not every Republican Guard division was hit equally hard; those in the path of the planned Coalition ground forces received the brunt of the attacks. • The CENTCOM Commander directed that comparatively greater damage be inflicted on the front-line forces to reduce Coalition ground forces' casualties.

  8. Lessons Learned • High Tech Precision Weapons enabled a revolution in military strategy, but changes in command, strategy, organization and joint/coalition cooperation is what made the revolution work • When airpower works it can have a very powerful effect, sometimes not always what was anticipated • Airpower took its place as a dominate part of warfare, but it must be part of a overall comprehensive strategy to truly be effective Keep the last lesson in mind as we look at Bosnia and Kosovo later

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