Remember Desert Storm? Few Americans do. It was that "other" war with Iraq, the one that wrapped up neatly in six weeks. After a daily diet of impressively precise air-strike footage and a hundred-hour blitzkrieg across southern Iraq and Kuwait that outran the enemy and most of the news cameras, America declared victory. A broad coalition had been formed, Kuwait had been liberated, Saddam Hussein's Iraq was humiliated and the ghosts of Vietnam were exorcised. So it seemed for a few shining weeks in the spring of 1991, when Americans again fell in love with their seemingly invincible Army.
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