![]() ![]() Under the auspices of UN Resolution 688, the Bush administration authorized military operations to prevent a further flood of refuges into Turkey and to alleviate the suffering. The Iraqi dictator responded with a repressive campaign that pushed the Kurds into the mountains along Turkey’s southeastern border, where they suffered from lack of food, water, and shelter. Spurred by Operation DESERT STORM’S results, the Kurds in northern Iraq rebelled against Saddam Hussein. ![]() īut even before the last troops departed for the United States, events in northern Iraq signaled future changes to military missions. A potent deterrent force during the Cold War, this lethal combination devastated Saddam Hussein’s military forces in Desert Storm, justifying the military’s mission-focus on conventional war. A new operational doctrine-Air-Land Battle-leveraged the full power of the services’ sophisticated technologies employed by highly trained volunteer forces on mobile battlefields. ![]() Operation DESERT STORM represented the services’ successful intellectual and physical efforts to reorient from graduated escalation strategies and guerrilla warfare in the jungles of Vietnam to fighting a potential high intensity conventional war in Europe. 38 teachers from 23 states participated in the weekend.Ī quick victory in Iraq validated military professionals’ post-Vietnam War emphasis on warfighting using decisive force. The agenda for the conference was designed to correspond to the museum’s new wing on the post-Vietnam era emphasizing these missions: Deterrence, Battle, Humanitarian/Peacekeeping, Counter-Insurgency, and Foreign Military Assistance. This was our 13th military history weekend at the First Division Museum. This essay is based on a presentation at the Butcher History Institute for Teachers on Understanding the Many Missions of the American Military on March 24-25, 2018, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the First Division Museum at Cantigny, and Carthage College and supported by a grant from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. ![]()
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