And they have observed that the original -- unimaginative -- military plan for Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf War was rejected by the civilian leadership, which ordered a return to the drawing board.
Such an image is further illuminated in the acclaimed account of Operation Desert Storm, The Generals' War, written by retired Marine General Bernard Trainor and New York Times correspondent Michael Gordon.
Although they have fought bravely and in the end successfully, it will be a long time before overseas aggressors again view them with the awe exhibited after Operation Desert Storm and the Balkan air war.
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This was the basis for the Desert Storm campaign that won the Gulf War in 1991.
Undoubtedly, there are certain eternal lessons about war, which could be seen as having a straight line from Korea, to Vietnam, to the Cold War and into Desert Storm.
Would we have gone forward with the build-up to Operation Desert Storm let alone the Gulf War itself if Washington, New York or some other place in America could have been credibly threatened with annihilation?
Would we have gone forward with the build-up to Operation Desert Storm -- let alone the Gulf War itself -- if Washington, New York or some other place in America could have been credibly threatened with annihilation?
Few would seriously argue for using World War II vintage aircraft to fight Desert Storm, yet opponents of continuing B-2 production routinely contend that the B-52s will remain viable for many years to come.
He was involved in Operation Desert Storm and was commandant of the U.S. Army War College.
Dick Cheney and Colin Powell have both got first-hand experience of running a war, Mr Cheney as defence secretary during Desert Storm, Mr Powell as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
It will once again take years, and immense quantities of tax dollars, to restore U.S. power projection capabilities to the level of readiness and effectiveness demonstrated so impressively in their first post-Cold War conflict Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
Overall goal: a military that could fight "a limited war under high-tech conditions"--read Desert Storm in Asia.
As of Thursday, 157 U.S. and British troops had died in the war, less than half the 358 coalition deaths in Desert Storm.
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