Operation Desert Storm

noun

1. the codename for the US-led UN operation to liberate Kuwait from Iraq (1991)

Example Sentences

There is precedent for what Moscow is proposing: the post-1991 U.N. regime imposed on Iraq after Operation Desert Storm.

From The Daily Beast

He was recalled for active duty in 1991—two years after returning home to Minnesota—for Operation Desert Storm.

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That memory haunted him, resurrected in flashbacks eight years later after a tour in the Gulf during Operation Desert Storm.

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Both opted for naval careers, became pilots, and flew dozens of missions during Operation Desert Storm.

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