A short program on the history of the Persian Gulf War, and its after effects. Saddam Hussein's military forces invaded and occupied Iraq's next door neighbor Kuwait on August 2, 1990. This ...

On August 2, 1990, Saddam Hussein, notorious Iraqi strongman ... air campaign of what the world would soon know as the Persian Gulf War—began. Desert Storm was the first major test of an ...

Persian Gulf War? Desert Storm and/or Desert Shield ... checked a decade of Saddam Hussein’s aggression toward his neighbors, and broke the looming spectre of Vietnam which loomed over the ...

Initiated by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, the Gulf War was the ... millions of gallons of crude oil into the Persian Gulf. Iraqi prisoners of war surrendering to the United States Army ...

The Persian Gulf War, with its Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm phases, saw the coalition led by President George H.W. Bush battle Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Saddam had ...

"Saddam is winning the psychological war ... In his public diatribes against the United States, from the time of the first Persian Gulf War, Hussein has frequently spoken contemptuously about ...

Today’s question: Why did the United States enter the Persian Gulf War? In August 1990 ... test is that U.S. troops were sent to remove Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait.

But no matter how decisive it appeared to the American public at the time, there is no way to look back at the Persian Gulf War without ... in August 1990 when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait ...

This day in 1991 marked the start of Persian Gulf War when President George ... When Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had invaded Kuwait the previous August, Bush said: “This will not stand.” ...

Could Saddam Hussein’s armed forces have sunk ... Iraqi prospects were farfetched when viewed in the real-world context of war in the Persian Gulf. Focusing that much martial throw weight ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: As with any counterfactual, it’s difficult to grapple with the full implications of the death of Saddam Hussein during the 1991 Gulf War.A successful ...