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In the final years of the Cold War, rising instability in the Middle East prompted the U.S. and its allies to prepare for regional conflict. Reactivated and modernized, the Iowa-class battleships ...
The 30th anniversary of the launch of Operation Storm (Oluja), often named the Battle of All Battles, is currently being ...
In 1995, hundreds of thousands of Serbs were forced from the Krajina region in Croatia, and nearly 2,000 were killed.
The last time the U.S. used any of its four Iowa-class battleships in combat was during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Any ...
Four days later, a task force of 15,000 U.S. troops, 32 Navy destroyers, and 100 military aircraft and helicopters arrived in Saudi Arabia to commence Operation Desert Shield the next day, August ...
To Croatia and Serbia, Operation Oluja means very different things. For Croatians, it is a moment of victory and celebration.
On Aug. 2, 1990, it was codenamed Operation Desert Shield for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia. It became Operation Desert Storm on Jan. 17, 1991.
Prior to Operation Desert Storm, the U.S. led a nearly six-month build-up of weapon systems in Southwest Asia that began immediately following the invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2, 1991.
In Operation Storm’s ‘Victory City’, Croats and Serbs Share Common Hopes Before 1991, Knin was a major railway hub, but today only one train runs through the city. Photo: Vuk Tesija.
Operation Desert Storm, one of the largest air campaigns in U.S. military history, took place 30-years-ago. Angela and Gerald Fambro were in their 20s.
John Geoghegan talked about his book, [Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II], in which he recalls the failed Japanese mission to attack ...
The 1995 "Operation Storm" conducted by the Croatian military brought not only a reversal of fortune on the battlefield, but also prompted another wave of displacement - this time in the opposite ...