Learning my historiography for an exam on the operational art, but can't seem to find any evidence outside of the Final Report to Congress that the Gulf War embodied AirLand Battle doctrine at all. Wondering if anyone has come across any scholars that claim the Gulf War was anything but an application of the classic principles of operational art?
Airland battle had been largely abandoned, and was considered largely defensive in scope and goal.
You're therefore correct that the Gulf War campaign was based on the core principles of operational warfare. Just because a full spectrum assault is preceded by a comprehensive air campaign, does not make it AirLand Battle. Operation Desert Storm in particular bears little semblance to ALB and is a more robust and classic combined arms operation. If I recall correctly, the entire genesis of ALB was with consideration of massed armor in Soviet Deep Battle, which the Iraqis were never truly capable of emulating with any great skill.
To answer; I've never seen any serious history or study of the campaign attempt to link it to ALB.