During the war, my husband was stationed at an army camp in a desert in California.

战争期间，我丈夫驻扎在加利福尼亚沙漠中的一个军营里。

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There was a great war, and the king had many soldiers, but gave them small pay, so small that they could not live upon it, so three of them agreed among themselves to desert.

很久以前，爆发了一场大战，国王招募了许多士兵，他只发给士兵很少军饷，士兵根本就无法靠这点钱活下去。三个士兵相约逃跑。

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The story is about a girl whose brother is a soldier who gets killed in a desert war.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

This was the basis for the Desert Storm campaign that won the Gulf War in 1991.

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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.

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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.

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