As we did the math, I commented that six aircraft carriers would be the largest carrier force assembled in one spot since World War II. military forces in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations (KTO), including many more naval ships. We were literally stunned as we read the message from the Joint Chiefs of Staff announcing a huge increase in the build-up of U.S. Central Command Joint Intelligence Center, where I had opportunity to see significant improvement in U.S. My reward for this heresy was to spend 12 of the next 21 years in joint commands, including three years as commander of the U.S. Central Command, particularly the Intelligence Support Architecture, will be readily apparent. I first wrote this a number of years after the fact but I kept it true to what I believed and understood to be true at the time, so my dim view of Joint Operations as conducted during Desert Storm (which held the Navy back from making maximum contribution to the war) and U.S.

Naval Forces Central Command for the entirety of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, serving under VADM Hank Mauz and VADM Stan Arthur. I was the Iraqi Subject Matter Expert on the Intelligence Staff of Commander, U.S. This series is a departure from my normal H-grams in that this is a personal recollection.

Sam Cox, Director of Naval History, 08 October 2020ĭesert Storm Deployment, USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19), September 1990 - January 1991 H055.2 Desert Shield/Desert Storm Part 4 (November 1990) Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm-Part Four: November 1990

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