Operation Desert Storm
Britishnoun
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The McDonnell Douglas-made supersonic fighter-bomber had its heyday in the 1960s and the U.S. used it during the 1991 Operation Desert Storm against Iraq.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
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 • Nov. 4, 2025
During Operation Desert Storm, he spent close to two years at bases in Europe, but he returned to the U.S. and Whiteman Air Force Base in western Missouri when his wife became ill.
From Salon • Oct. 10, 2023
Hamilton’s experience in Vietnam served him well in Central America during the 1980s and then with Reuters, for which he covered Operation Desert Storm in 1990.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2023
In Operation Desert Storm in 1991, the United States had routed the forces of Saddam Hussein in Kuwait.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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