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Special Deployments XXXVI

Driving Wedge

Deploying

Tuesday 6 April 2021, 18:00 UTC

Situation

On January 16, 1991, President George H. W. Bush announced the start of what would be called Operation Desert Storm—a military operation to expel occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait, which Iraq had invaded and annexed months earlier. For weeks, a U.S.-led coalition of two dozen nations had positioned more than 900,000 troops in the region, most stationed on the Saudi-Iraq border. A U.N.-declared deadline for withdrawal passed on January 15, with no action from Iraq, so coalition forces began a five-week bombardment of Iraqi command and control targets from air and sea. Despite widespread fears that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein might order the use of chemical weapons, a ground invasion started in February. We are US VII Core, our tasking is to push across the Kuwait Border and lead the charge into the Iraqi armoured divisions. We are to take out and engage enemy armour so that the infantry can push forward and push further into Iraq. Continue reading