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Sources
Alfred Price, To War in a Warthog, AIR FORCE MAGAZINE, August: 1993

David R. Jacques LtCol USAF (Ret.) & Dennis D. Strouble, A10 Thunderbolt II (Warthog) Systems Engineering Case Study, Air Force Center for Systems Engineering, Wright Patterson AFB: 2010

Eliot A. Cohen, Gulf War Air Power Survey Vol. V – Statistical Compendium and Chronology Washington: 1993

Fred Frostic, Air Campaign Against the Iraqi Army in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations, RAND, Santa Monica: 1994

James A. Winnefeld, Preston Niblack & Dana J. Johnson, A League of Airmen – U.S. Air Power in the Gulf War, RAND, Santa Monica: 1994

R.H.S. Stolfi et al, Combat Damage Assessment Team A10/GAU8, Naval Postgraduate School, January 1979

Richard P. Hallion, America as a Military Aerospace Nation: From Pearl Harbor to Desert Storm, in John Andreas Olsen, Airpower Applied, Naval Institute Press, Maryland: 2017

Perry D. Jamieson, Lucrative Targets – The U.S. Air Force in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations, Air Force History and Museums Program, Washington: 2011

United States General Accounting Office (GAO), Report to Congressional Requesters – Operation Desert Storm: Evaluation of the Air War, GAO: July 1996

United States General Accounting Office (GAO), Report to Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Commerce, House of Representatives – Operation Desert Storm: Evaluation of the Air War, GAO: June 1997

World Air Power Journal, A10 Flighting Warthog, Vol. 16, Spring, 1994

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Timecodes
00:00 Disclaimer
00:03 Intro
00:35 Topic of today
02:27 The gun no one expected
09:27 DCS: A10 gun pass (Thrustmaster segment)
10:21 DCS: A10 gun pass
13:43 The gun: dramatic but overrated?
16:04 Desert Storm: The data problem
18:03 Desert Storm: What did the A10 (not) do?
23:28 Desert Storm: Why the Mavericks matter
26:22 Desert Storm: A10 casualties
29:14 The gun that became famous
34:29 Stuff I'd like to talk about