The United States' prepositioning capacity has almost tripled since the Persian Gulf war, as has its readiness.
Northern Iraq had been outside Baghdad's control since the end of the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
During the Persian Gulf War, Iraq launched Scud missiles at targets in Israel.
But most people remember him as the commander of American-led forces in the Persian Gulf War which defeated Iraq in 1991.
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The group of volunteers first started during the Persian Gulf War in 1991 and continued following the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Holliman was instrumental in CNN's coverage of the Persian Gulf War.
Now that of course wound up approving the use of force in the Persian Gulf War and another confrontation with Iraq and that many years ago.
Nothing he went through as a candidate for Vice President, Cheney said, compared to the stress he faced as Defense Secretary during the Persian Gulf War.
The Persian Gulf War and Kosovo operations underscored the yawning discrepancy between the sophisticated technology used by the American military and that upon which U.S. allies rely.
He served at the Pentagon as the Air National Guard commander and was directly involved in planning the use of Air National Guard forces during the Persian Gulf War.
One reason for the United States' great success in the Persian Gulf War was the willingness of Saudi Arabia to allow American forces to use bases on its soil.
He joined the Army after attending the University of Texas and still held a major's commission in the reserves when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, sparking the Persian Gulf war.
Baghdad also had said it destroyed remaining stocks of its chemical and biological weapons as was required under the terms of the cease-fire that ended the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
The extent of America's sweeping success during the Persian Gulf War had the unintended consequence of convincing would-be adversaries that they must reconstitute new strategies in order to compete with and challenge U.S. power.
The Persian Gulf War and the Iraq and Afghan Wars a decade later are the first major wars in America's history that have been fought without broad-based conscription to mobilize all levels of American society.
In Congress since 1973, he has been a staunch supporter of the Pentagon, voting to back the Persian Gulf War in 1991 and for the current Iraq conflict in 2002 (unlike most Democrats, in both cases).
Virtually unknown to the public before the Persian Gulf War, Schwarzkopf became a household name while he oversaw the buildup of 700, 000 coalition troops, including more than 540, 000 U.S. forces, after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990.
Wilson, who was acting U.S. ambassador to Iraq just before the Persian Gulf War of 1991, alleges White House officials revealed his wife's identity to Novak in retaliation for his exposing flaws in prewar intelligence on Iraq.
Bush administration officials -- Powell among them -- argued that Iraq had harbored stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, a hidden nuclear weapons program and long-range missiles in violation of the cease-fire that ended the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
This estimate of capability depends heavily on the questionable premise that a theater commander would be loath to use a weapon beyond its tested capability -- although this is what we did with the Patriot in the Persian Gulf War.
In December, Jordan said, he met with Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf to ask permission for CNN to send journalists into areas of northern Iraq that had been under Kurdish control since the end of the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
Political analysts say the forum, at the very least, provided Bush a chance to avoid making the same mistake his father, former President George Bush, did when he appeared to focus more on the Persian Gulf War than on the economy.
But since the first Persian Gulf War, the profile of the average military inmate has changed dramatically.
It was also informed by the U.S. experience in the first Persian Gulf War when the U.S. deployed 500, 000 soldiers.
In addition to his domestic reporting, King covered a number of major international events, including the first Persian Gulf War, the U.S. military operation to restore the Aristide government to Haiti and the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa.
He voted against committing U.S. troops in the 1991 Persian Gulf War but supported the October congressional resolution authorizing the use of force to disarm Iraq in the current standoff.
Jackson has previously led missions that resulted in the release of a downed U.S. Navy pilot from Syria in 1984, the repatriation of Americans held in Iraq before the 1991 Persian Gulf war, and in the return of three captured U.S. soldiers from Yugoslavia during the 1999 Kosovo conflict.
The Act was a critical reason that the 1991 Persian Gulf war was so different from the Vietnam conflict.
Kerry voted against committing U.S. troops in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, but he supported the October congressional resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq.
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