Review
Williamson Murray analyzes the Coalition's conduct of air operations during the war against Iraq in 1990 and 1991. Air Power in the Persian War describes the enormous concentration of air power in the Gulf using tables, maps, and photographs. Murray then shows how these air forces aided or prevented the Coalition from reaching its objectives. Air War in the Persian Gulf is based on original documents and interviews with strategists and combatants of the war and provides a detailed examination of the strengths and weaknesses of the opposing military forces, the deployment of forces to the Gulf, and the planning of the air war as it developed. Air War in the Persian Gulf is the definitive official history of the war from the American perspective by one of today's foremost military historians. -- Midwest Book Review
