The crisis and the conflict we have come to call “Desert Storm” is twenty-five years old.  This crisis began on August 2, 1990, when Saddam Hussein occupied Kuwait and purported annexation as a prelude to hegemony of oil in the Arabian Peninsula and control of the Persian Gulf.  “Desert Shield” was the military codename for the defense against further Iraqi aggression, and “Desert Storm” was the codename for the liberation of Kuwait.  Although predominantly an American military operation, Desert Storm was truly an international effort.  The victory was so stunning and absolute that it is easy in retrospect to dismiss Iraqi military prowess and to forget that the Iraqi Army, the fourth largest in the world, had fought successfully for almost a decade a much larger army in the Iraq-Iran War.  Desert Storm stands in stark contrast to our wars in Vietnam and Korea and to Obama’s ghastly incompetence in Iraq and...(Read Full Article)