Wstępne uwagi o kampanii irackiej

• Autorzy: Koziej, S.

Warianty tytułu

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Introductory remarks on Iraq Campaign

• Języki publikacji: PL

Abstrakty

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The article contains introductory remarks resulting from a planned and real course of Iraq Campaign in 2003. The Campaign in Iraq was the fourth after the post- Cold-War time attempt to regulate security problems by international community using military force. As the UN failed to solve the problem, therefore an ad hoc coalition was created to deal with it. The basic political goal of this campaign was to change the regime in Iraq, the strategic driving force was to disable and stop the system of controlling the state. At the same time to unable Hussain’s regime to use mass destruction weapons against coalition forces and neighbouring countries, Israel in particular. In a political and strategic dimension it was the first application of American new strategy of prevention actions and anticipation strikes. The campaign started from a so called “air start” (before finishing full deployment of forces on the theatre of operations). It was additionally complication by the position of Turkey. In an operational dimension the Iraq Campaign was conducted according to modern strategy principles of selective destroying key objects (instead of former strategy of total destruction). It was carried out in a very moderate way taking into account the coalition’s own losses, civilian population and even enemy forces losses, although the Iraqi regime did everything to integrate military objects with civilian ones. A very characteristic feature in this campaign was the concentration on fighting to gain advantage in commanding and a great flexibility and manoeuvrability (raids) of ground operations. The information dominance and the possibility to use precision weapons were certainly a basic factor there. Therefore it can be justified to claim that the allies’ campaign was the first on such a scale example of a potential of waging information era wars.

Słowa kluczowe

PL

kampania iracka; bezpieczeństwo międzynarodowe

EN

Iraqi Campaign; international security

• Czasopismo: Zeszyty Naukowe AON
• Rocznik: 2003
• Tom: nr 2(51)
• Strony: 23-32

Twórcy

autor

Koziej, S.

• Akademia Obrony Narodowej