Looking Back at Desert Storm (1991 Article) by the U.S. News & World Report staff

Saddam Hussein called it "the mother of all battles," and indeed, as hundreds of missiles and warplanes swarmed over around the birthplace of Abraham, there was something almost biblical that transcended the spectacle of prime-time pyrotechnics and space-age war machines. It manifested itself in dry throats and mute stares as the first wave of exultation crested and broke after Iraqi SCUD missiles began falling on Israel and the realization grew that the megalomaniac Iraqi leader may have to be dug out of the rubble around him, perhaps at the cost of a large number of lives. Oddly, though, the gas masks, missiles and even Hussein's own overwrought rhetoric seem to have done what President Bush was never quite able to do: elevate the conflict from what some critics have charged is a crass fight for oil and jobs to what it has been since August 2, when Hussein sent his troops crashing into Kuwait -- a war between right and wrong.

For a nation steeped in the bitter broth of Vietnam and jolted since by disasters in Beirut and the Iranian desert and by the invasions of Grenada and Panama, the massive air armada arrayed against Saddam Hussein has evoked a renewed sense of power and purpose. Flying 2,107 combat missions in the first 48 hours of the war, allied air forces were able to deliver as many as 5,000 tons of bombs a day on Baghdad -- nearly double the amount dropped by the Allies in the epic 1945 bombing of Dresden, Germany. "History in the making," Col. Ray Davies breathed as he watched a squadron of American F-15E attack fighters vanish into light cloud cover and up into a moonless sky over the Saudi desert. Back home, even as a nascent peace movement puddled up in cities small and large, polls showed Americans rallying behind the decision to go to war and rejecting assertions that the president should have waited longer before attacking Iraq…

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Desert Storm Diary - Kuwait Remembers by Frank Gardner, BBC

On the morning of 17 January 1991, exactly 25 years ago, Kuwaitis woke up to the news that the war to liberate their country, after five months of Iraqi occupation, had begun.

BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner interviewed Khaled Al-Sabah, who stayed on in Kuwait throughout the occupation, helping the resistance under an assumed name, about what he remembers of the day the US-led Operation Desert Storm began…

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Georgetown Security Studies Review Volume 4, Number 1, January 2016

Table of Contents

Why Greater American-Russian Counter-ISIL Cooperation is

Needed ................................................................................................. 4

Blake Bassett

Secret Evidence and its Legalities in an Evolving World of

Intelligence and Cybersecurity ....................................................... 36

Donna Artusy

Realism, World War I, and the US-China Relationship .............. 51

Abigail Casey

The Russian Counterinsurgency Campaign in Chechnya During

the Second War and Chechenizatsia .............................................. 69

David Sidamonidze

Atlanticist Drift: French Security Policy After de Gaulle ............ 93

Daniel Lim

The Islamic State’s Social Media and Recruitment Strategy:

Papering Over a Flimsy Caliphate ............................................... 120

Ryan Pereira

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