Operation Desert Storm

Examples of Operation Desert Storm in the following topics:

• The 1992 Election

  • He had alienated conservative Republicans by breaking his pledge not to raise taxes, and some faulted him for failing to remove Saddam Hussein from power during Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf War.

• Collective Military Force

  • The Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Storm, was a war waged by a UN-authorized coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.

• Conclusion: The End of a Century

  • He had alienated conservative Republicans by breaking his pledge not to raise taxes, and some faulted him for failing to remove Saddam Hussein from power during Operation Desert Storm.

• George H.W. Bush Abroad

  • "Operation Just Cause" was a large-scale American military operation and the first in more than 40 years that was not related to the Cold War.
  • Wary of not having sufficient domestic support for combat, Bush first deployed troops to the area to build up forces in the region and defend Saudi Arabia via Operation Desert Shield.
  • On January 14, after Congress authorized the use of military force against Iraq, the U.S. orchestrated an effective air campaign, followed by Operation Desert Storm, a one-hundred-hour land war involving over 500,000 U.S. troops and another 200,000 from 27 other countries, which expelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait by the end of February.
  • Bush sits at his desk in the Oval Office Study and talks on the telephone regarding Operation Just Cause in Panama, as General Brent Scowcroft and Governor John Sununu stand nearby.

• The North African Front

  • It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts (Western Desert Campaign, also known as the Desert War) and in Morocco and Algeria (Operation Torch) and Tunisia (Tunisia Campaign).
  • During Operation Compass, the Italian 10th Army was destroyed and the German Afrika Korps—commanded by Erwin Rommel, who later became known as "The Desert Fox"—was dispatched to North Africa during Operation Sonnenblume to reinforce Italian forces in order to prevent a complete Axis defeat.
  • The Western Desert Campaign or the Desert War, took place in the Western Desert of Egypt and Libya and was a theatre in the North African Campaign during the Second World War.
  • After the British defeats in the Balkan Campaign, the Western Desert Campaign had become more important to British strategy.
  • Operation Torch started on 8 November 1942, and finished on 11 November.

• The North Africa Campaign

  • It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts (Western Desert Campaign or Desert War), in Morocco and Algeria (Operation Torch), and Tunisia (Tunisia Campaign).
  • The Western Desert Campaign, also known as the Desert War, was the initial stage of the North African Campaign.
  • The allied force there held out and were relieved during Operation Crusader.
  • Operation Torch started on November 8, 1942, and finished on November 11.
  • Identify the effectiveness of the Western Desert Campaign, Operation Torch, and the Tunisia Campaign.

• The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • On July 16, 1945, the Allied Manhattan Project successfully detonated an atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert and by August had produced atomic weapons based on two alternate designs.
  • The operation had two parts: Operation Olympic and Operation Coronet.
  • Operation Olympic was to be followed in March 1946 by Operation Coronet, the capture of the Kantō Plain, near Tokyo on the main Japanese island of Honshū by the U.S.
  • Parsons said that Project Alberta would have it ready by August 11, but Tibbets pointed to weather reports indicating poor flying conditions on that day due to a storm, and asked if the bomb could be readied by August 9.
  • Supporters of the bombings generally assert that they caused the Japanese surrender, preventing casualties on both sides during Operation Downfall.

• Hurricane Katrina

  • The hurricane caused severe destruction along the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas, much of it due to the storm surge.
  • The storm weakened before making its second landfall as a Category 3 storm on the morning of Monday, August 29 in southeast Louisiana.
  • On August 26, the state of Mississippi activated its National Guard in preparation for the storm's landfall.
  • Additionally, the state government activated its Emergency Operations Center the next day, and local governments began issuing evacuation orders.
  • The effects of the storm were far-reaching.

• "Americanizing" the Vietnam War

  • Operation Rolling Thunder was the code name given to a sustained strategic bombing campaign targeted against the North by aircraft of the U.S.
  • For U.S. troops participating in these operations (Operation Masher/White Wing, Operation Attleboro, Operation Cedar Falls, Operation Junction City and dozens of others) the war boiled down to hard marching through some of the most difficult (and unfamiliar) terrain on the planet and weather conditions that were alternately hot and dry or cold and wet.
  • Desertion rates increased, and morale plummeted.
  • The US launched Operation Rolling Thunder, a strategic bombing campaign of North Vietnam in 1965.

• What is Evolution?

  • (a) Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) can soak up 750 liters of water in a single rain storm, enabling these cacti to survive the dry conditions of the Sonoran desert in Mexico and the Southwestern United States.