The six-minute salvo of 71 shells was unleashed at an Iraqi artillery unit inside Kuwait that had been shelling the Marines. Field weapons such as the 155mm Howitzer M198 support advancing tanks and ground troops. GUN STATISTICS Caliber: 155 millimeter Barrel length: 20 feet Rate of fire: 4...
was certainly capable of burning every Jewish town and village north of Haifa with countless rockets (the number 110,000 that was widely circulated turned out to be simply invented) while targeting power stations, Ben Gurion Airport, port facilities, every chemical plant and ...
It took six months in 1990-91 for the United States to get its forces in position to invade Kuwait. Maintaining them in the field required a constant stream of slow-moving cargo ships from U.S. ports halfway around the world. A decade later, and for 20 years thereafter, a similar ...
forces had invaded Iraq from Kuwait in the south (U.S. Special Forces had previously been deployed to Kurdish-controlled areas in the north). Despite fears that Iraqi forces would engage in a scorched-earth policy—destroying bridges and dams and setting fire to Iraq’s southern oil wells—...