Here’s a look at the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War. In response to Iraq’s invasion ... launched military operations known as Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.

The war unfolded in two key phases: Operation Desert Shield, which focused on troop deployment ... F-16A, F-15C and F-15E aircraft fly over Kuwaiti oil fires set by the retreating Iraqi army ...

By the beginning of August 1990, tensions in the Persian Gulf had reached a crisis point. The ruler of Iraq, President Saddam Hussein had been threatening to invade the small, oil-rich state of Kuwait ...

On Aug. 2, 1990, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's elite Republican Guard tanks and mechanized infantry invaded oil-rich Kuwait, igniting a war that would have several ... memory its predecessor, ...

With the 30th anniversary of the Persian Gulf War ... the oil fields of Saudi Arabia. At the request of the Saudi King Fahd, U.S. President George H.W. Bush approved Operation Desert Shield ...

In the months to follow, Desert Shield transitioned to Operation Desert Storm — the combat phase of the Gulf War in which the allied ... setting fire to Kuwaiti oil wells. He preserves it ...

The small gulf country was a major supplier of oil to the U.S. Saudi ... the United States launched Operation Desert Shield. We're going to turn now to a well-traveled war correspondent, our ...

which concentrated primarily on the diplomatic and policy decisions affecting the war, or decisions at the high command level, Cordesman provides a detailed analysis of all of the military trends and ...

Sophia Keller of Glenview and Dorothy Hurley of Chicago feel like casualties of the Persian Gulf war. Their sons ... exercises as part of Operation Desert Shield. Whenever Sophia Keller sees ...

Thousands of soldiers were deployed in 1990 and 1991 during the Persian Gulf War’s Operation Desert Shield and then Operation Desert Storm. The mission was to evict Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi ...