Where were you at approximately 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 16, 1991? If you were among the more than 500,000 men and women deployed from the U.S. as part of Operation Desert Storm, you remember. You remember ...
The first Persian Gulf War lasted six weeks. Kuwait was liberated from the murderous grasp of Saddam Hussein, and the Iraqi army admitted defeat, at a surrender ceremony presided over by the ...
From a war-fighting perspective, Operation Desert Storm is widely considered one of the U.S. military’s best-executed campaigns. Casualties — especially combat deaths — were far lower than expected.
Operation Desert Storm is often referred to as “The First Space War” because it was the first major conflict to incorporate various satellite-based technology and GPS. This technology was pervasive ...
Decisive Victory: Operation Desert Storm is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, ...
January 17, 2016, marks a milestone in our nation's military history. Twenty five years ago, Operation Desert Storm began in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, with the U.S. leading a ...
Operation Desert Storm was 10 seconds away. Tom O’Neal was about to fire the first shot in the war that would end Saddam Hussein’s occupation of Kuwait. And he didn’t know it. Although the battle plan ...
Scott C. Stump took the stage near the corner of Constitution Avenue and 23rd Street NW on Thursday morning, ceremonially breaking ground at a site he hopes will soon host a memorial to those who ...
Thirty-five years after Operation Desert Storm, the conflict remains the last major regional war fought—and decisively won—by the United States. That fact alone should give pause to anyone concerned ...