Effects-based operations : change in the nature of warfare / David A. Deptula

Well before dawn on January 17, 1991, Major Greg Biscone flew the first of two B-52s toward Wadi Al Kirr airfield a recently completed forward fighter base in central Iraq. His targets were the taxiways between the runway and hardened aircraft shelters. Skimming 300 feet over the desert at 500 miles per hour it was so dark the night vision goggles and low light TV system didn't help. Iraqi early warning radars forced Biscone to drop his huge, old bomber lower the surface-to-air missile (SAM) threat was greater than the danger of flying within a wingspan of the ground. Minutes later, Biscone and his counterparts Buffs executed a successful multi-axis attack crippling the airfield and leaving anti-aircraft artillery with nothing to fire at but the receding jet noise.