An edition of The mother of all battles
(2006)
The mother of all battles
Saddam Hussein's strategic plan for the Gulf War
by Kevin M. Woods
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The mother of all battles: Saddam Hussein's strategic plan for the Gulf War
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The Defining Battle: Operation Iraqi Freedom Based on the Words and Documents of Saddam's Regime: A History from United States Joint Forces
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Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
A note on sources
Introduction
An overview of the Gulf War from the U.S. perspective
The diplomatic background
The air war
The ground war
The 'victory' at al-Khafji
The beginning : Saddam's narrative
A long view
The Iran-Iraq war as precursor
The coming war of the elephant
Saddam's strategic calculations
Kuwait
The view of senior Ba'thists
Restoring the branch to the tree
Planning an invasion
Preparing the republican guard
Iraqi airpower 'confidence abounds'
The Iraqi navy's mission : a daunting task
Yum al-nida (day of the great call)
The invasion
The Iraqi Navy
Iraqi airpower : weaknesses exposed
The republican guard's Blitzkrieg
Occupation and consolidation
A new historical juncture
Extending Ba'ath control
Reaction and Iraqi counteraction
The Arab world
The Iranians
The international community
The Americans
The Iraqi plan for the defense of Kuwait
Assessing the coalition threat
First priority : prepare for a long air campaign
Preparing a naval defense
The ground defense concept
Air force and air defense
Surface-to-surface missile forces
Unconventional preparations
Iraq's net assessment of the coming war
Um al-ma'arik (the mother of all battles)
The air campaign
Their defeated gathering
The ground campaign
The end-of-the-epic duel
The unilateral cease fire
The uprisings
Iraqi lessons learned
Saddam's strategic lessons of the war
Epilogue : insights from the Iraqi perspective
Appendix a : timeline
Appendix b : key personalities
Acronyms and abbreviations.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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