Why has the U.S. Air Force gotten so bad at studying its own history? In the wake of Operation Desert Storm in 1991, the secretary of the Air Force commissioned the "Gulf War Air Power Survey," an independent study in which a talented team of historians, analysts, participants and operators led by the gifted Eliot Cohen undertook a multi-year examination of all facets of the air power operations launched against Iraq. The five volumes that resulted from that effort remain the definitive source for analysis of air power in that conflict.

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