NAVY TALKING POINTS OFFICE IF INFO DESERT STORM

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Subject = NAVY TALKING POINTS OFFICE IF INFO  DESERT STORM                

Folder Title = MAJ GALLOWAY S MATERIAL                                                                         

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                          DESERT STORM CHRONOLOGY


                                                               1991





            16 Jan                 At 1900 (EST), White House announced that Othe liberation of Kuwait has
                                           beggn? The offensive action against Iraq, codenamed OPERATION
                                           DESERT STORM, is being carried out under provisions of twelve
                                           U.N. Security Council resolutions and resolutions of both houses of
                                           the U.S. Congress.
                                   Following President Bush's address to the nation, SECDEF Dick Cheney and
                                           CJCS General Colin Powell announce at Pentagon briefing hundreds of
                                           U.S./coalition airstrikes on missile and anti-aircraft targets in Iraq and
                                           Kuwait to IdestM Saddam Hussein's offensive military capabilities';
                                           Cheney reports 'initial attack appears to have gQnt3jjXLer
                                                                                                                 -well"; no
                                           casualty reports provided.

            17 Jan                 DOD announces that over 100 TOMAHAWK cruise missiles were launched by
                                           U.S. ships in the Arabian Sea and Red Sea, then over 1,000 aircraft
                                           sorties (132-Cs/AWACs-controlled) were flown by A-6s, A-7s, AV-8s,
                                           A-10s, B-52s, EA-613s, EF-111s, F-4s, F-14s, F-15s, F-16s, F/A-18s,
                                           F-Ills, F-117As, AH-64s, Saudi/British Tornados, French Jaguars,
                                           Kuwaiti A-4s;
                                   CJCSGENERALCoRnPoweHreportsTOMAHAWKcruisemissiles'wereex-
                                           trernely effective (against precision targets where Iraqi air defenses
                                           threatened manned aircraft); of all sorties, 80% were effective, 20% in
                                           effective due to mechanical/weather problems; Iraqi SCUD missile
                                           fixed-sites destroyed, targeting SCUD launchers; Iraqi planes destroyed,
                                           but "Iraqi Air Force is still intact; U.S. engaged in air-to-air battles with
                                           Iraqi aircraft; Iraq fired multiple SAMs and anti-aircraft artillery, little
                                           or no effect; Iraqi elite Republican Guard units attacked in Iraq and
                                           Kuwait; did not target President Hussein, focused on disrupting/destroy-
                                           ing command/control network.
                                   Eight Iraqi SCUD missiles impact in Tel Aviv and Haifa, Israel. Seven civilian
                                           injuries.
                                   U.S. Patriot missile intercepts/destroys one incoming Iraqi SCUD missile over
                                           Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.






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