US military aircraft played a pivotal role in the Gulf, ensuring air superiority and executing precision strikes in hundreds ...

The Gulf War (1990-91) was a conflict involving coalition ... F-16A, F-15C and F-15E aircraft fly over Kuwaiti oil fires set by the retreating Iraqi army during Desert Storm.

On June 8th 1991 in Washington DC, 8,000 US troops marched in triumph through the streets of their nation’s capital having ...

It has been almost a quarter century since the 1991 Gulf War which began with Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in August ...

Cordesman's book, The Gulf War, was published in October 1994 ... a net assessment comparing Iraqi and each of the major Coalition military forces, and a detailed analysis of the history and lessons ...

And because the U.S. military was unprepared for the kind of fight it found itself in during the Iraq War, the lessons to be learned is that the Americans should not become so rigid on things like ...

and other U.S. generals of Iraqi effectiveness were always exaggerated or false,” said (Ret.) Col. Doug Macgregor, an author and Army consultant who served in the first Gulf War. “The generals ...

“This is a sad history,” Richard Kohn says. “The banishing of the Iraqi military and the Baath Party by U.S. officials at the end of the war made it impossible to occupy and rebuild the countr ...

As of May 9, 126 U.S. military personnel had died in Iraq ... Nine journalists covering the U.S.-led war were killed in action during the first three weeks of the conflict, victims of Iraqi or U.S.

mines have killed one and wounded six U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan. Will the U.S. use mines again in Iraq? The last time the U.S. used antipersonnel mines was in the Gulf War in 1991 and ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA’s) Gulf War Registry alerts Veterans to possible long-term health problems that may be related to environmental exposures during their military service.

Gulf war hero Colonel Tim Collins has resigned from the Army. Colonel Collins, whose eve of battle speech to his men before they entered Iraq last year, made him a national hero, tendered his ...