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The AH-1 Apache attack helicopter opened the way for the Allied advance into Iraq during Operation Desert Storm. Flying fast and low, Apaches systematically destroyed Iraqi radar and communications installations, then provided invaluable air support for U.S. and British armored forces.

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In Paul Renwick Farley’s finest work to date, here in The Thunder and Lightning of Desert Storm he has masterfully captured the awe and the majesty of the M-1 Abrams and AH-64 Apache combined arms strike team. Like thunder incarnate, a platoon of Abrams main battle tanks emerge from a desert wadi amidst the swirls of blowing desert sand, magnified by the downwash of overtaking Apaches. Like lightning out-of-the-blue, the attack helicopters strike ahead, and while the enemy reels in bewilderment as to what has just hit them, they are overwhelmed by the onslaught of the battle phalanx of tanks. It is this tactical maneuver that the Allied Commander Gen. Norman Swartzkopf called his Hammer and Anvil. The M-1A1 Abrams and the AH-64 Apache combine to form the most lethal and irresistible combination in modern warfare. Indeed, this was exactly the case when dealt out to the Iraqi invaders during the ground operation we now know as "Operation Desert Storm".