Word: operationalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Inside Operation Desert Storm, the military juggernaut that freed Kuwait in 1991, was a small, secret operation all its own: an effort to kill Saddam Hussein. Of the 40,000 U.S. air attacks during the Gulf War, about 40 were aimed at the Iraqi leader's headquarters, residences, command bunkers...
This time, if and when Operation Desert Thunder is launched against Iraq, the Pentagon says it doesn't plan to target Saddam. The operation's bombing campaign, scheduled to go on for about a week, would drop most of its bombs and cruise missiles on four sets of targets: first...
On the eve of what is shaping up as the biggest combat operation of his presidency, Bill Clinton has begun to alter his private and public posture in ways that suggest war is just around the corner. He has been on the phone to as many as three foreign Presidents...
No one expects the operation to be bloodless. The White House has begun preparing Americans for unpleasant pictures from Baghdad and less-than-perfect results from the battlefield. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Defense Secretary William Cohen and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger were scheduled to hold a town meeting...
Can Operation Desert Thunder be stopped? Perhaps. Saddam might play his cheat-and-retreat game again, promising to open all sites in Iraq to unconditional inspection, and then throw up new roadblocks in a month or two. Or he can refuse to yield and take his punishment, emerging after a...