Operation Desert Storm

British  

noun

1. the codename for the US-led UN operation to liberate Kuwait from Iraq (1991)

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Example Sentences

Bush prepared for Operation Desert Storm by ordering what was then the first ever drawdown of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve on the same night a U.S.-led coalition attacked Iraq.

From The Wall Street Journal

Its entries—written before, during and after Operation Desert Storm—now serve as the foundation of his terrific memoir, “If I Don’t Return.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Operation Desert Storm in 1991 included 1,300 U.S. aircraft from the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, according to information from Air & Space Forces Magazine.

From The Wall Street Journal

He persuaded Saudi Arabia's King Fahd to allow the deployment of more than 400,000 United States troops on his territory in the lead-up to Operation Desert Storm.

From BBC

It became a permanent installation two years later and has trained thousands of service members, sending troops to battle in Operation Desert Storm and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

From Los Angeles Times