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Third World Traps and Pitfalls : Ballistic Missiles, Cruise Missiles, and Land-Based Airpower

By: Major William C. Story, JR., USAF

...monstrate the potential that missiles possess to disrupt an opponent’s land-based airpower and achieve significant political consequences. Iraq’s use of Scud ballistic missiles in the 1991 Persian Gulf War produced nearly instantaneous political effects. The Scuds did not threaten the coalition military forces opposing Saddam Hussein, but instead threatened the existence o...

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