Inspired by the talk about the Gripen's off base capabilities in Future History.
WI, instead of having vast airfields and concrete shelters Saddam had went the other way and used dispersal as the means of protecting his airforce in 1991?
I'm not one to think that dispersal can work miracles, it can't but what it can do is provide options to an airforce that uses it. Planes can use ground loiter, make emergency landings, use shuttle bombing techniques and other stuff not to mention that their location is not fixed and like SCUDs difficult to target.