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The First Infantry Division and the U.S. Army Transformed : Road to Victory in Desert Storm, 1970-1991 /
This fast-paced and compelling read closes a significant gap in the historiography of the late Cold War U.S. Army and is crucial for understanding the current situation in the Middle East. From the author's introduction: "My purpose is a narrative history of the 1st Infantry Division from...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2017
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| Collection: | American military experience series.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Coming home
- Victory in the Cold War
- Saddam Hussein moves south
- Getting there : planes, trains, and the Jolly Rubino
- Heading for the badlands
- Alarums and excursions : first contact with the enemy
- Cue the curtain : first battles and battlefield preparation
- Once more into the breach
- The march up country
- Fright night : the attack on Objective Norfolk
- Go for the blue : the way home
- Safwan and home
- Epilogue : you left your mark.