An in-depth study of the ground campaign led by the US and Coalition forces against Iraq in the Gulf War. In 1980, Iraq invaded Iran, precipitating an eight-year war. By the end of the 1980s, Iraq was bankrupt, having amassed enormous debts, and oil-rich neighboring Kuwait, which Iraq had long claimed was rightly part of greater Iraq, seemed like the perfect solution.Saddam Hussein's invasion in August 1990 pitted one of the largest Arab armies against the smallest and Kuwait...
First seen during the American Civil War and later appearing in the Franco-Prussian War and the Anglo-Boer Wars, the armored train came to prominence on the Eastern Front during World War I. It was also deployed during the Russian Civil War and the technology traveled east into the Chinese Civil War, and the subsequent war with Japan. It saw service on the Russian Front in World War II, but was increasingly sidelined because of its vulnerability to air attack. Steven J Zaloga...
Latem 1944 roku Alianci rozpoczęli planowanie złożonej operacji, mającej na celu opanowanie mostu na Renie w Arnhem w Holandii. Zamierzano jak najszybciej przenieść walki na terytorium Niemiec. W tym szczegółowym tomie Steven Zaloga przedstawia trzymający w napięciu i bogaty w informacje opis jednej z najważniejszych operacji powietrznodesantowych II wojny światowej. Zadanie Amerykanów polegało na użyciu dwóch dywizji XVIII Korpusu Powietrznodesantowego do zdobycia kluczowych...
