Wings Of Iraq

Author : Tom Cooper,Milos Sipos
Publisher : Middle East@War
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1914377176

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Wings of Iraq by Tom Cooper,Milos Sipos Pdf

Officially established on 22 April 1931, around a core of 5 pilots and 32 aircraft mechanics, the Royal Iraqi Air Force was the first military flying service in any Arab country. Wings of Iraq, Volume 2 tells the story of the Iraqi Air Force between 1970 and 1980. In doing so it examines the air force's involvement in the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, and then the showdown with the Iranian-supported Kurdish insurgency in northern Iraq in 1974-1975. These two affairs taught the Iraqis that numbers alone did not make an air force. Correspondingly, during the second half of the 1970s, Baghdad embarked on a project based on full technology transfer from France, which was intended to result in preparing the IrAF for the twenty-first century. This process hardly began when the new ruler in Baghdad, Saddam Hussein at-Tikriti, led his country into an invasion of neighboring Iran, embroiling it in a ruinous, eight-year-long war. This volume details the events leading up to the beginning of that war and its opening moves in the air. Although virtually 'born in battle', collecting precious combat experience and playing an important role in so many internal and external conflicts, the Iraqi Air Force remains one of the least known and most misinterpreted military services in the Middle East. Richly illustrated, Wings of Iraq, Volume 2, provides a uniquely compact yet comprehensive guide to its operational history, its crucial officers and aircraft, and its major operations between 1970 and 1980.

Author : Tom Cooper,Milos Sipos
Publisher : Middle East@War
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1913118746

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Wings of Iraq by Tom Cooper,Milos Sipos Pdf

Virtually born in battle, collecting precious combat experience and playing involved in so many conflicts, the Iraqi Air Force remains one of the most misinterpreted military services in the Middle East. Wings over Iraq provides a uniquely compact yet comprehensive guide to its operational history, officers, aircraft, and major operations.

Author : Mark A. Werkema
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595149889

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On Fulcrum's Wings by Mark A. Werkema Pdf

“ON A SECRET AIRSTRIKE MISSION ONE NIGHT, TWO U.S. EX-FIGHTER PILOTS WAGE WAR IN OLD SOVIET MIG-29 FULCRUMS OVER THE SKIES OF IRAQ…” Tensions are building again in the Gulf region. In the many years after the Gulf War, Iraq continues to threaten regional and world peace. Stability and peace in the Gulf are in peril. The U.S. is deeply concerned—action must be taken. Another war is imminent. The famed MiG-29 Fulcrum and the country of Iraq provide the backdrop for a top secret U.S. air strike and form the basis for a special-ops air war like one never attempted before…a daring mission against all odds. The stage is set for war. The MiG-29 Fulcrum is the quintessential foreign fighter of our day. Iraq is the ultimate enemy. A simple twist of fate, a modern-day aerial Trojan Horse, and an unlikely air strike mission turn into an ironic plot of tactical deception in the very act of war. These two pilots are American mercenaries, fighter jocks paid to fight a secret war flying the premiere jet combat fighter in the Iraqi arsenal. Flown with two MiG-29 Fulcrum’s, the Soviet-made state-of-the-art ultimate enemy fighter painted in Iraqi colors it is the ultimate deception in aerial combat. This is the very story of the Second Gulf War. Sometimes an act of war is not what anyone can believe—the very act of war of one nation against another that most would claim is improbable, unbelievable, unimaginable, and even impossible. For this night,they are the enemy.

Author : Ferra Alas
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781480899186

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Exotic Wings by Ferra Alas Pdf

Exotic Wings will take you through the journey I traveled from my sanctioned childhood to the war-torn teenage years, all the way to the American dream. Growing up in Iraq has created a survivor I never thought I would become. Through the hardships I faced, I found so much strength worth sharing with all of you out there, who perhaps wonder what it is like to live in Iraq. There is a trauma to living under a dictatorship, economic sanctions, and one war after another. The book entails a journey of recovery that will hopefully pave the path for some of you to learn to cope, embrace, and make peace with your past.

Author : Mark A. Werkema
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781469751696

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On Fulcrum's Wings by Mark A. Werkema Pdf

ON A SECRET AIRSTRIKE MISSION ONE NIGHT, TWO U.S. EX-FIGHTER PILOTS WAGE WAR IN OLD SOVIET MIG-29 FULCRUMS OVER THE SKIES OF IRAQ Tensions are building again in the Gulf region. In the many years after the Gulf War, Iraq continues to threaten regional and world peace. Stability and peace in the Gulf are in peril. The U.S. is deeply concernedaction must be taken. Another war is imminent. The famed MiG-29 Fulcrum and the country of Iraq provide the backdrop for a top secret U.S. air strike and form the basis for a special-ops air war like one never attempted beforea daring mission against all odds. The stage is set for war. The MiG-29 Fulcrum is the quintessential foreign fighter of our day. Iraq is the ultimate enemy. A simple twist of fate, a modern-day aerial Trojan Horse, and an unlikely air strike mission turn into an ironic plot of tactical deception in the very act of war. These two pilots are American mercenaries, fighter jocks paid to fight a secret war flying the premiere jet combat fighter in the Iraqi arsenal. Flown with two MiG-29 Fulcrums, the Soviet-made state-of-the-art ultimate enemy fighter painted in Iraqi colors it is the ultimate deception in aerial combat. This is the very story of the Second Gulf War. Sometimes an act of war is not what anyone can believethe very act of war of one nation against another that most would claim is improbable, unbelievable, unimaginable, and even impossible. For this night,they are the enemy.

Author : A. Walter Dorn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317183402

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Air Power in UN Operations by A. Walter Dorn Pdf

Air power for warfighting is a story that's been told many times. Air power for peacekeeping and UN enforcement is a story that desperately needs to be told. For the first-time, this volume covers the fascinating range of aerial peace functions. In rich detail it describes: aircraft transporting vital supplies to UN peacekeepers and massive amounts of humanitarian aid to war-affected populations; aircraft serving as the 'eyes in sky' to keep watch for the world organization; and combat aircraft enforcing the peace. Rich poignant case studies illuminate the past and present use of UN air power, pointing the way for the future. This book impressively fills the large gap in the current literature on peace operations, on the United Nations and on air power generally.

Author : Amjed Rasheed
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000844740

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Power and Paranoia in Syria-Iraq Relations by Amjed Rasheed Pdf

This book examines the perplexing twists and turns in Syria-Iraq relations which since the establishment of modern Syria and Iraq after World War I have zigzagged between cooperation and hostility countless times. It questions why both countries switched regional and international alliances, but never formed one of their own, and assesses the role played by structural forces such as geopolitics, ideology, and regime survival. It also argues that a key factor was the individual personalities – the agency role – of Hafez Assad and Saddam Hussain, both of whom had a monopoly of power, similar ambitions and leadership styles, and great mistrust of each other, with the result that they clashed. It goes on to show how both were caught between commitment to pan-Arabism and the imperative for regime survival, and how this led them both to weaken pan-Arabism instead and construct sectarian polarisation to ensure regime survival. The book concludes that their ruthless fight left a heavy legacy where in both countries regime survival overshadowed state consolidation and nation-building, with both countries divided into smaller communities of faiths and ethnicities at war with each other.

Author : Abbas Kazerooni
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781743430002

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On Two Feet and Wings by Abbas Kazerooni Pdf

This amazing true story of a boy fleeing Tehran on his own during the Iran-Iraq War provides a powerful child's-eye view of political tumult, separation, survival, dreams and triumphs in a moving memoir that chronicles extraordinary times in an ordinary boy's life.

Author : Abbas Kazerooni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Refugees
ISBN : 1477847839

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On Two Feet and Wings by Abbas Kazerooni Pdf

"First published in 2008 as 'The little man' by Tate Publishing, USA; published in 2011 by Hachette India; published in 2012 by Allen & Unwin, Australia"--Colophon.

Author : Eric Forsyth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578652994

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Wings Over Iraq by Eric Forsyth Pdf

Historical novel set in Iraq in the turbulent lead up to WWII. The British patrol the oil fields using obsolete bombers. The Germans recruit local tribes to sabotage British efforts, as fascists ascend to power in Europe. Newly qualified RAF pilot Allan Chadwick's first assignment near Baghdad is an initiation into the realities of war and love.

Author : Shawkat Al-Rubaie
Publisher : Author House
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781491889534

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WINGS AND ROOTS by Shawkat Al-Rubaie Pdf

It seems to me that with the development of the critical spirit we shall be able to realize, not merely our own selves, but the collective life of the race, and so to make ourselves absolutely modern, in the true meaning of the word modernity. For he to whom the present is the only thing that is present knows nothing of the age in which he lives. . . . To know anything about oneself, one must know all about others. There must be no mood with which one cannot sympathize, no dead mode of life that one cannot make alive.

Author : Tim Ripley
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844150694

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Air War Iraq by Tim Ripley Pdf

The book is a photo-journalistic record of the vitally important role that aviation played in the recent liberation of Iraq. It follows the part that American, British and Australian airpower played in each theatre of the campaign. It includes the many different missions that aircraft were tasked with, precision bombing, support of ground forces, clandestine air drops. Covering the initial build-up to the rapid and record-breaking advance on the capital it uses dramatic action photographs and first-hand accounts to portray the events as they unfolded.

Author : Mark Lax,Mike O'Connor,Ray Vann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 0955573483

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Wings Over Mesopotamia by Mark Lax,Mike O'Connor,Ray Vann Pdf

Author : Richard Engel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781416563266

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War Journal by Richard Engel Pdf

In the most dramatic and intimate account of battle reporting since Michael Herr's classic Dispatches, NBC News's award-winning Middle East Bureau Chief, Richard Engel, offers an unvarnished and often emotional account of five years in Iraq. Engel is the longest serving broadcaster in Iraq and the only American television reporter to cover the country continuously before, during, and after the 2003 U.S. invasion. Fluent in Arabic, he has had unrivaled access to U.S. military commanders, Sunni insurgents, Shiite militias, Iraqi families, and even President George W. Bush, who called him to the White House for a private briefing. He has witnessed nearly every major milestone in this long war. War Journal describes what it was like to go into the hole where U.S. Special Operations Forces captured Saddam Hussein. Engel was there as the insurgency began and watched the spread of Iranian influence over Shiite religious cities and the Iraqi government. He watched as Iraqis voted in their first election. He was in the courtroom when Saddam was sentenced to death and interviewed General David Petraeus about the surge. In vivid, sometimes painful detail, Engel tracks the successes and setbacks of the war. He describes searching, with U.S troops, for a missing soldier in the dangerous Sunni city of Ramadi; surviving kidnapping attempts, IED attacks, hotel bombings, and ambushes; and even the smell of cakes in a bakery attacked by sectarian gangs and strewn with bodies of the executed. War Journal describes a sectarian war that American leaders were late to understand and struggled to contain. It is an account of the author's experiences, insights, bittersweet reflections, and moments from his private video diary -- itself the subject of a highly acclaimed documentary on MSNBC. War Journal is the story of the transformation of a young journalist who moved to the Middle East with $2,000 and a belief that the region would be "the story" of his generation into a seasoned reporter who has at times believed that he would die covering the war. It is about American soldiers, ordinary Iraqis, and especially a few brave individuals on his team who continually risked their lives to make his own daring reporting possible.

Author : Abbas Kazerooni
Publisher : Orbit Books
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9350092689

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On Two Feet and Wings by Abbas Kazerooni Pdf

"Close to his tenth birthday, Abbas has to leave his parents and friends, and flee Tehran. The Iran-Iraq War is at its bloodiest. The Ayatollahs, the rulers in Iran, have reduced the age of recruitment into the army. And if Abbas doesn't leave soon, he will have to go to war. In the strange and often frightening city of Istanbul, Abbas has to grow up faster than ever. He has to learn difficult things - how to live on his own, how to make his way around, and most importantly, how to judge who is a friend and who is an enemy. Living alone for fourteen weeks in a rundown hotel, Abbas finds a friend in Mourat, the owner, while he waits to get his dream-visa to England"--Back cover.