The Operations Room | Desert Storm - The Ground War, Day 1 - Crush the Saddam Line - Animated @TheOperationsRoom | Uploaded October 2020 | Updated October 2024, 10 minutes ago.
24th February 1991 - After weeks of bombing the Iraqi military, the US-led coalition launches the ground invasion of Iraq to liberate Kuwait. Not only must they breach the defended minefields of southern Kuwait, coalition armour must punch a hole through the heavily defended "Saddam Line".

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Desert Storm Air War: The Aerial Campaign against Saddam's Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War - Jim Corrigan
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