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	frontline: the gulf war: oral history: buster glosson
		Glosson: The intensity of the strategic air campaign and when to switch that intensity to more a tactical mode or more toward the field army deployed was always a controversial issue.
		Glosson: The infamous cruise missile fly by of the Rashid Hotel, the one that was shown on CNN live as it went by the window, resulted in us being told...
		Glosson: Certainly one of the most troubling times of the war for me was the Al Firdos bunker and that was solely because of the civilian casualities associated with it.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/glosson/2.html (2212 words)

	frontline: the gulf war: oral history: buster glosson
		Glosson: Unfortunately, I was one of the people that had to wrestle with that and although the answer would certainly have been a political decision, General Schwarzkopf and General Horner and I had the responsibility of making sure that there were a military option there.
		Glosson: The issue of low flying and how much would we have tolerated if the individual coalition member countries had insisted that they fly either low, high or whatever, was an issue that actually came up two or three times.
		Glosson: I know that there are a lot of people that characterize so called potential for a Tet offensive I think that that thought process basically came about as a result of some air power zealots trying to have their own thought process turn into the way that the war was being run.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/glosson/1.html (2416 words)

	CNN.com - Joint Chiefs pick was whistle-blower - August 23, 2001
		Buster Glosson had attempted to exert undue influence to kill the promotion of a general who was disliked by the then-Air Force chief of staff.
		Glosson was a favorite of then-Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Merrill McPeak and was known as the architect of the air campaign during the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
		Glosson, who was in line to get his fourth star and assume a major command, was instead forced to retire as a three-star general.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/ALLPOLITICS/08/22/joint.chiefs (322 words)

	Day of the Killer Scouts--April 1993
		Buster Glosson's special tactical planning cell, a group of instructors from the USAF Fighter Weapons School at Nellis AFB, Nev. Led by Col. Clyde "Joe Bob"Phillips, these experts were deeply involved in piecing together the air campaign.
		General Glosson understood that the simplest way to reduce or eliminate this problem would be to lift the minimum altitude restriction established before the war began.
		General Glosson, eager to prevent confusion with the mission of the A-10 (and OA-10) FACs, suggested the term "Scout." Colonel Phillips noted that the F-16s had no rockets and would have to mark targets with 500-pound bombs; thus, he observed, "killer scout"might be a more appropriate description.
	www.afa.org /magazine/perspectives/desert_storm/0493scouts.asp (2906 words)

	Heart of the Storm, Epilogue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The close working relationship and trust that developed between Glosson, Deptula, and Horner not only figured heavily in the survival and expansion of the Instant Thunder plan and the influence of the Checkmate planners on events in Riyadh, but also allowed Deptula to succeed where Warden had failed.
		He was able to convince both Glosson and Horner of the efficacy of Instant Thunder and the overarching value of strategic attack.
		Through Glosson and Horner, he was able to affect what, where, when, and how targets were attacked, disabled, or destroyed.
	www.au.af.mil /au/aul/aupress/Books/b-55/heartbck.htm (679 words)

	Four Corners - 17/3/2003: Seven Ways To See A War
		CHRIS MASTERS: Buster Glosson's other major concern about a hasty occupation of Iraq is that it might give Saddam Hussein the target he's looking for.
		GENERAL BUSTER GLOSSON: To mass large numbers of ground forces where he could dump chemical and biological weapons on it is not only unwise, it's criminal and it's stupid.
		CHRIS MASTERS: General Glosson is a believer in the ability of his weapons to fight a 21st-century war, searching out and destroying Saddam Hussein's thugs rather than the innocents quaking in the shelters.
	www.abc.net.au /4corners/content/2003/transcripts/s808664.htm (5573 words)

	Frugal's World of Simulations - Vietnam and Desert Storm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Cal Waller: I really believe that Buster Glosson really believed in his own mind that if he could just have a few more days and hit a few more targets, that there wouldn't be a need for a ground war.
		Buster Glosson: The Army had one view and the Air Force obviously, probably with the Navy, had another view.
		Buster Glosson: this air campaign, in its totality, was Norman Schwarzkopf's air campaign, it wasn't Cal Waller's, nor Buster Glosson nor Chuck Horner's, and the campaign was part of..
	forums.frugalsworld.com /vbb/showthread.php?t=8794 (1941 words)

	Speakers
		General Glosson's military career was highlighted by command and leadership positions at every level of the U.S. Air Force during both peace and war.
		Prior to his retirement in 1994, General Glosson served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Pans, Operations and Requirements, where he was responsible for strategic planning, weapons system requirements, and day-to-day Air Force worldwide operations.
		General Glosson was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, and received a degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University.
	www.riverhillslions.org /bios.htm (1990 words)

	Replies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Glosson, who now heads a private international investment firm and has just completed a five-year term as an adviser to the CIA director, aimed his fault-finding at military planners, not President Bush or Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
		I don't know what is planned, but if the recent infiltration of the upper echelons of the services by PC types is still in force (and have we heard of any wholesale house-cleaning in that department?), THEIR kind of war will not work.
		I think it's correct to say Glosson was the director of the air operations in GW1 but it's my understanding that the underlying strategy was by John Warden.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/851907/replies?c=1 (1634 words)

	GN Online: Washington weighs retaliatory options
		Buster Glosson, a retired three-star Air Force general who played a leading role in planning the air campaign then, said three options received serious consideration.
		And a third, which Glosson favoured, proposed targeting several dams on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.
		The specific options under review remain classified, but comments by several officials in recent interviews suggest the range of feasible alternatives is even more constrained this time by an overriding objective to limit civilian casualties and damage to non-military targets.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=75677 (726 words)

	Meeting Report from May 15, 2001
		General Glosson is a Greensboro native, North Carolina State University graduate, and currently a resident of Charlotte.
		General Glosson chose to speak on what he considers America's greatest threat internationally: chemical and biological weapons in the hands of terrorists of rogue nations.
		Glosson went on to say that we have grown comfortable in a bi-polar environment.
	www.charlotterotary.org /may15_2001.htm (1236 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Glosson built a maze of small offices in order to plot the air war against Iraq.
		From throughout the American military, Glosson recruited intelligence officers to scout the enemy, logistics people to match weapons to objectives, "fraggers" to pick the final targets.
		Glosson ordered a large sign hung on one wall, lettered by computer printout.
	www.infiltrated.net /silentsound/silsound.html (815 words)

	AEI - Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		General Buster Glosson, who is the founder and chief executive officer of Eagle Limited.
		And we have some assets, as Buster knows, that we didn't have in 1991, much better capability to put the territory from which they might be launched under surveillance.
		GENERAL GLOSSON: There is no question that you and I are on a different sheet of music, and that may be because of the way we got to where we are today.
	www.aei.org /events/eventID.246,filter.all/transcript.asp (9261 words)

	Chapter 21 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Buster Glosson, was due to arrive on base within the hour.
		According to Grumpy, Gen. Glosson planned to meet with the pilots at 14:00 in the beer tent.
		Everyone jumped to their feet as Gen. Glosson walked into the room.
	www.vipersinthestorm.com /html/chapter_21.html (335 words)

	NZOOM - ONE News - World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Retired Air Force General Buster Glosson says the plans would risk more American and allied lives than necessary and expressed alarm about what he described as a US "rush" to conclude an air campaign within a few days.
		Glosson, who now heads a private international investment firm and has just completed a five-year term as an adviser to the CIA director, aimed his fault-finding at military planners, not President George W. Bush or Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
		Glosson also argued strongly against attempts to minimize Iraqi civilian casualties if it meant incurring more losses among US and allied military personnel.
	onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,171394-1-9,00.html (618 words)

	JOINT OPERATIONS IN THE GULF WAR:
		Glosson was frustrated to some degree working with the Marines and their narrower IMEF focus.
		Glosson respected the Marines for their tactical expertise, but was very frustrated when it came to working with them on an operational level.
		Glosson’s and Horner’s actions could even be interpreted as Model I+ in regards to air support for the corps commanders.
	www.fas.org /man/eprint/carpente.htm (21206 words)

	:: indonesia house ::
		Glosson flew to glory on the wings of the planning of the air campaign against Iraq in January-February 1991.
		The criticism that Glosson leveled at Myers is supposed to be based on knowledge of the plans - for the past five years, Glosson was a special adviser to the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, George Tenet, and his former subordinates today hold senior posts in the military.
		Glosson, in contrast to the approach of Myers and Jumper, is against closer cooperation with Israel.
	www.indonesia-house.org /focus/terror/032203US_General_track.htm (2925 words)

	U.S. eyes all-out offensive to subdue Fallujah rebels - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - September 30, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Buster Glosson, who planned the 1991 air war against Iraq, said the country cannot move to full democracy until Fallujah is tamed.
		Gen. Glosson said the U.S. military made three mistakes: not destroying the elite Republican Guard, some of whose officers now lead the insurgency; disbanding the regular Iraqi army, pushing its soldiers toward the insurgency; and stopping U.S. Marines in April as they were clearing Fallujah of terrorists.
		Bush administration officials say the April cease-fire was necessary because the battle was preventing U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer III from getting all sides to agree on the makeup of an interim government.
	www.washingtontimes.com /functions/print.php?StoryID=20040929-111524-6582r (757 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Fog of War - War Goals
		Buster C. Glosson to direct the overall air war rewrite.
		The Instant Thunder name was changed to read "Offensive Campaign Phase I" to match the evolving four-phase air and ground war being planned in Florida.
		It was impolitic to claim the Air Force would win the war singlehandedly, and Glosson amiably accommodated competing theories of how to win by merely adding missions and targets to the Desert Storm plan.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/fogofwar/wargoals.htm (883 words)

	Inside the Ring
		Buster Glosson, who designed the Desert Storm air war, is out with a memoir on the 1991 war.
		Along the way, Gen. Glosson criticizes advisers, including Colin L. Powell, for convincing the first President Bush to stop the ground campaign just when they had the Iraqi Republican Guard cornered.
		Glosson is using his ongoing book tour to criticize the current war plan for Iraq.
	www.gertzfile.com /gertzfile/ring031403.html (1092 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> World -> 'US attack on Iraq in March, war will be short' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Washington: United States could mount an attack on Iraq by March next year but it would not be a long-drawn conflict as the far more superior and modernised American forces would finish the war in eight or nine days, three former ex-Generals have speculated.
		The three ex-Generals — former allied supreme commander of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) general Wesley Clark, former Air Force lt gen Buster Glosson, a veteran of the Gulf War, and ex-major general Don Shepperd, who is a consultant to CNN — said this on CNN on December 8.
		The view they generally expressed was that once US resorted to large-scale bombing of Iraq, Iraqi soldiers would desert on a large scale and surrender, with the result the resistance would crumble and the war would last only eight or nine days.
	news.indiainfo.com /2002/12/09/09iraq.html (405 words)

	Retired general confident Iraqi weapons will be found - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Also, it was a mistake to allow Iraq's state-operated TV to stay on the air, enabling Saddam's regime to communicate with the masses.
		Gen. Glosson said this new twist to an old strategy worked in Iraqi Freedom because the ground commander, Army Lt. Gen.
		Gen. Glosson, who since his retirement generally has stayed mum on commenting on military affairs, broke his silence before Operation Iraqi Freedom.
	washingtontimes.com /national/20030616-012756-8104r.htm (801 words)

	RC Groups - “U.S. military strategy for a possible new war with Iraq... "criminal"
		Even though Gen. Glosson specifically blames the "Military" planners, I wonder how much of this campaign planning is being influenced by Secretary Rumsfeld's lack of military experience, and his unwillingness to accept the council of his generals.
		I worked for Buster Glosson in the Joint Forces Air Component Command Center (JFACC) in the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) in Riyadh during Desert Storm.
		If you read the complete article, you will find that Glosson, a proponent of air power (Air Force general a proponent of air power...go figure) is that, in his estimation, the time spent on the air campaign is not enough.
	www.rcgroups.com /forums/showthread.php?t=95790 (1234 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Washington / Myers makes mark in shadow of Rumsfeld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Myers' unyielding dedication to a code of conduct, say friends and colleagues, was evident in the 1993 case of Air Force Lt. Gen.
		An architect of the air campaign in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Glosson was a rising star in the Pentagon, but former military officials said he improperly tried to influence Myers and two other generals on a promotion board, disparaging a general under consideration for advancement.
		Myers and the other generals did not flinch when they had to sign off on a statement asking if any outside party had tried to shape their opinion, contrary to the rules.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2005/04/29/myers_makes_mark_in_shadow_of_rumsfeld?pg=2 (462 words)

	The Memory Hole > The Gulf War: Secret History: Week 11 through Week 20
		Buster Glosson, head of the Black Hole, to brief President Bush on the ground and air efforts.
		Glosson and his men had Saddam Hussein's buildings in their cross hairs.
		Buster Glosson, head of the Black Hole, issued "Target Guidance" in December 1990 instructing strikes within the refinery target subset against distribution points, but not the cracking towers.
	www.thememoryhole.org /war/gulf-secret02.htm (12244 words)

	Democratic Underground Forums - Retired U.S. General (B. Glosson) Slams U.S. War Plans for Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A retired American general who directed the 1991 Gulf War air campaign on Tuesday denounced the U.S. military strategy for a possible new war with Iraq as "criminal," saying it would risk more American and allied lives than necessary.
		Retired Air Force Gen. Buster Glosson expressed alarm about what he described as a U.S. "rush" to conclude an air campaign within a few days and warned that war plans fall short on the critical need to "obliterate" elite Republican Guard units that are key to President Saddam Hussein's survival.
		Buster isn't against the war, just the manner in which it will be waged.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID61/15958.html (503 words)

	CBS News \| The Weapon That Didn't Work \| January 11, 2000 19:34:32
		"The bottom line is that the missile was not reliable, and I was saying that in the early '90s," says former General Buster Glosson, who was in charge of Air Force operations before he retired, and is now a consultant for CBS News.
		But Glosson says that was not good enough because some tests were not realistic: "The canned tests...were run only under very benign situations and environments and rehearsed and practiced over and over and over again."
		Glosson, who directed the air war against Iraq, wanted nothing to do with the AGM-142s.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2000/01/10/60II/main147988.shtml (1618 words)

	Four Corners: Interview with Buster Glosson
		Four Corners interviews General Buster Glosson, the US Air Force Commander of the air campaign in the last Gulf War, on 12 March 2003.
		Due to the possibility of mis-hearing, the ABC cannot vouch for its accuracy.
		Interviews: Four Corners taps into the minds of people with deep personal or professional interests in the conflict, including General Rose, General Glosson, Brigadier Wallace, Shimon Peres, Dr Laurence Meyer and Prof.
	www.abc.net.au /4corners/content/2003/20030317_seven_war/int_glosson.htm (1770 words)

	[A-List] US imperialism: Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Warning over ground attack IAN BRUCE The Herald, 18 September 2002 ANY attempt to mount a copycat "Desert Storm Two" attack on Iraq with = massive ground forces is asking for disaster, Lieutenant General Buster = Glosson, the architect of the 1991 Gulf War air assault, said yesterday.
		General Glosson said the "Roman Legion" approach of a months'-long = build-up of resources and units, and a multi-pronged land advance on = Baghdad from several directions, would undoubtedly work, but would = inevitably result in heavy military and civilian casualties.
		The entire regime could be toppled in 30 days with minimum losses on = both sides and among the civilian population if Pentagon planners = undermined Saddam's power base in Tikrit and hard-targeted the Iraqi = leader's Republican Guard divisions and intelligence apparatus.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2002-September/020554.html (387 words)

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