Check out "Every Man a Tiger" by Chuck Horner and Tom Clancy. Gen. Horner was the commander of the Air War in Desert Storm, as you probably already know. I enjoyed the book quite a bit, and it goes pretty in-depth into the tactics and strategies the US military employed. It might help you out a bit.

And the conclusion of your paper should be something like we won Desert Storm because we went in with maximum force at maximum intensity, whereas in Vietnam we had an "escalating conflict" where we never truly let the military off its leash. For far too long we were trying to keep from upsetting Russia & China and weren't utilizing our military anywhere near its full potential. At least, that was the conclusion of the paper I wrot a couple years ago on why we lost Vietnam.