The importance of air wars

One key thing that is discussed both in Second Front as well as in our class is the topic of air wars. This was probably the most important phase of the Gulf War. In desert storm, the air war began on January 15, 1991. This air war was very high tech and devastaeing to the enemy. The importance of air wars and the reasoning behind them was that they were a bit safer and less of our soliders would die. Therefore the US can attack and have nearly no casualties. No casualties gives the media nothing to report. This is important from the media perspective because Americans would see less soldiers dying. An air wars allows the military to take complete control of the airspace. Only after this is accomplished does the ground war begin. However, the air war should go on as long as possible. Once ground troops are brought in the war is automatically open to scrutiny.