Lieutenant General Buster Cleveland Glosson[1] (born March 14, 1942)[2] was the deputy chief of staff for plans and operations at the headquarters of the United States Air Force (USAF) in Washington D.C.[3] He was responsible to the secretary of the Air Force and chief of staff for the planning, operations, requirements and force structure necessary to support military operations.

He received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University in 1965.

Glosson entered the USAF in 1965 as a distinguished graduate of the North Carolina State University Reserve Officer Training Corps program.

In this function, he was responsible for planning the bombardment of Baghdad on January 17, 1991, that resulted in the near total destruction of the Iraqi command and control structure within the first hours of the air campaign.

[6][7] The Amiriyah shelter bombing on February 13 that year, that killed over 400 Iraqi civilians, was also carried out under his responsibility.