General_Charles_A._Horner

General Charles A. Horner General Charles A. Horner General Charles A. Horner has since retired from the Air Force but his doctrine is engraved in our military strategy. He served in the Air Force from October 1958 to September 1994. During his tenure, he served as the commander of all US and coalition forces for Desert Shield and Desert Storm. General Horner’s distinct position gives us the opportunity to get his perspective on air operations during the Persian Gulf campaign and describe the events that led to the decade of preparation, the attack, and the future of aerospace power. One of the key events to the United States success in the Persian Gulf was the decade of preparation prior to the Gulf War. The decade of preparation consists of two significant events: the build-up and the deployment. Detailed studies and analysis of logistics identified the need for pre-positioned supplies and ammo. The build up began in the early 1980’s and consisted of parts, supplies, ammunition, and people. US intervention in South West Asia was a result of three major incidents, Anti-American protesting, the overthrow of the Shah of Iran, and taking of hostages at the US embassy in air, force, preparation, power, war, technology, gulf, future, stealth, need, global, deployment, decade, targets, orders, munitions, mobility, events, during, desert, aerospace, without, united, tasking, supplies, states, rapid, precision-guided, planning, persian, operations, one, new, intelligence, impact, doctrine, deployable, commanders, combat, campaign, atos, assets, against, weeks, vision, vigilance, understanding, through, successful, storm