Horner's Gulf War

摘要

Lt. Gen. Charles A. Homer was the man in charge of orchestrating the phenomenally successful air war against Iraq during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. He was the first-ever wartime joint force air component commander, a position created in 1986. That made him the single air commander for the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and coalition air operations, answerable directly to the theater commander, Army Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. This meant Homer oversaw 100,876 coalition air sorties from Jan. 17 to Feb. 28, 1991. In a December 2015 interview, he discussed being the first JFACC, control of the air, Saddam Hussein's strategy, two surprising lapses, and where Iraq's center of gravity truly lay.