Black Eagles
Commissioned on April 29, 1967, as an aircraft squadron and deployed one week later to WESTPAC (Western Pacific command) aboard the USS Constellation, flying E-2As (”Hawkeyes”). The squadron served ...
Desert Shield, Operation
The multinational buildup of forces in the Persian Gulf that began in August 1990, immediately after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Its immediate purpose was to protect Saudi Arabia against attack ...
Desert Storm, Operation
The multinational bombing campaign against Iraq, beginning in January 1991, after Iraq had failed to meet the demands of a U.N. resolution that it withdraw from Kuwait. The operation was ...
Iran-Iraq War
(1980–88)A border dispute between Iran and Iraq, which developed into a major war. In 1980 President Saddam Hussein of Iraq abrogated the 1975 agreement granting Iran some 518 sq km (200 sq miles) of ...
Jahrah
An oasis town and governorate in central Kuwait. Located about 30 miles (50 km) west of Kuwait City, Jahrah is the capital of the governorate and the agricultural center of ...
Khafji, Battle of,
ˈkäfjē(January 29–31, 1991) the only major offensive during the Persian Gulf War. Iraqi troops attacked the Saudi gulf city, Ra's Al Khafji, located 8 miles south of the Kuwaiti ...
Kuwait Reference library
The Oxford Companion to World War II
was an independent Arab sheikhdom under British protection from 1914 to 1961 which was ruled by Sheikh Ahmad from 1921
Kuwait Reference library
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
a country on the northwest coast of the Persian Gulf; pop. 1,200,000 (est. 1991); official language, Arabic; capital,
left hook
The popular name given to the massive, highly mobile thrust by United States, British, and French armored and airmobile forces initiated on February 24, 1991, which drove around and through ...
mother of all battles
Iraqi term for the Persian Gulf War (1991). Saddam Hussein claimed the fight for Kuwait would be the “mother of all battles” (in Arabic, Um al-Mar'rik) and the phrase received considerable media ...
Persian Gulf War
On 2 August 1990 Iraq invaded oil-rich Kuwait. The United Nations promptly placed an embargo on Iraq while the United States organized a multi-national coalition to impose it. The un ...
Richard Cheney
Vice President• Born: January 30, 1941, Lincoln, Neb.• Education: University of Wyoming, B.A., 1965; M.A. 1996• Political party: Republican• Military service: None• Previous government service: ...
