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English: Levels of War – Desert Storm, 1991. Since nominally strategic capabilities could now be integrated for employment at any level of war simultaneously, Iraqi forces throughout the theater were compelled to operate as though they were all within visual range of American forces. Global positioning systems guided the smallest American combined-arms units into action with clinical accuracy as to location, even in hours of total darkness. By such maneuvers, the US VII Corps was enabled to attack from a direction and at a time that the Iraqi leadership was least prepared for. In response, the Iraqi armed forces (like their ill-fated predecessors, the Austrians and the French) simply lost coherency and fled the field or succumbed to destruction. This evolution is depicted schematically at the following figure, which shows that as the total campaign effort approaches simultaneity within a greatly deepened theater, the three levels of war begin to overlap and interpenetrate to a substantial degree.