So Many, So Much, So Far, So Fast: U.S. Transportation Command & Strategic Deployment for Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm

26 cm, 318, illus., folding maps at rear, notes, chronology of force projection, glossary, index, DJ worn, soiled, edge tears/chips. Based on v. 1 of Desert Shield/Desert Storm, 7 August 1990-10 March 1991, United States Transportation Command, 1992. This study presents a detailed analysis of how the Defense Transportation System (DTS)--the United States Transportation Command, its service components, and the civilian transportation industry--provided the strategic mobility that enabled the United States and its allies to assemble an overwhelming military force to defeat Iraq and free Kuwait. This volume is the first major history of a joint operation to be published by the Joint History Office and supports the efforts of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to promote a greater understandingof the joint system.