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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Desert Storm"”.
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OPERATION DESERT STORM: AN EXAMINATION OE THE STRATEGIC AIR CAMPAIGN
… of the strategic air campaign part of Operation Desert Storm. Prior to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990, American military attention focused on winning wars on the battlefield with air power in a supportive role, but this war reintroduced the idea of achieving victory by means of a …
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Using genetic algorithms to search large, unstructured databases: the search for Desert Storm Syndrome
… of Defense medical agencies, for a so-called "Desert Storm Syndrome" which involves large amounts of medical data obtained over several years following the Persian Gulf conflict. This data ranges over more than 170 attributes, making the search problem over the attribute space a hard one. We …
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Information and the Limits of Air Power
… abilities of air power in World War Two and Desert Storm, two wars widely separated by time, by technology, and by other differences. The case study of World War Two shows how important information is to air power. Desert Storm shows that even with modern technology available for …
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Non-Hostile Casualties in These Kinds of Wars from the Korean War to Operation Iraqi Freedom
… of the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Operation Desert Storm, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. This document examines the causes of the non-hostile deaths, from illnesses, accidents, friendly fire, and other injuries, as well as the trends in each war and the impact that these casualties exerted at …
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Containerization of unit equipment during surge deployments
… of container operations during Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. It examines the effects of containerization of unit equipment on unit integrity from both the unit commander and the transportation provider perspectives. It examines container policy, availability and supply, and …
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The Defense Intelligence Agency: An in-depth study of the development of the intelligence agency
… Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Grenada, and Desert Storm are some examples. Today DIA, as a powerful intelligence agency, plays a significant role in the intelligence community.
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Strategic sealift: decisions today to ensure tomorrow.
… due to the outstanding results of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, the United States no longer needs an active Merchant Marine. Despite these results our Fourth Arm is still insufficient. This thesis examines the reasons why this is true, and considers possible solutions to this …
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Command in air war : centralized vs. decentralized control of combat airpower
… and control of airpower through operations Desert Storm, Allied Force, Enduring Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom and compares its practice with classic theories established by Huntington, Cohen, Van Creveld, and Air Force doctrine. In the absence of a peer superpower in the 1990s, U.S. …
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A methodology for the robustness-based evaluation of systems-of-systems alternatives using regret analysis
… based on the air campaign over Iraq in Operation Desert Storm. The results of the testing indicate that the methodology can provide a measure of the robustness of different system-of-systems alternatives against a wide range of possible scenarios. The methodology was then demonstrated on the US …
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The Revolution in Military Affairs and Its Implication For Force Structure
… munitions, and surveillance systems were used in Desert Storm to transform warfare. At the same time, the small defense budget is hampering funding for modernization to replace the aging equipment of the 1980's. Therein lies the choice between modernizing at the expense of force structure or …
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The Development and Validation of a Biofidelic Synthetic Eye for the Facial and Ocular CountermeasUre Safety (FOCUS) Headform
… to over 13% of all combat injuries in Operation Desert Storm. While many of the conflict-related eye injuries are caused by shrapnel and other debris, nearly 25% of the injuries are also caused by blunt trauma from motor vehicle and helicopter crashes, falling, and direct hits from blunt objects. …