Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Home Shopping Network used the outbreak of war as a pretext to hawk Operation Desert Shield T-shirts and 3 X 5' American flags; the "amount sold" figure at the bottom of the screen rose so fast it looked like a stopwatch running...
Many in Washington are convinced that Saddam is playing brinkmanship, and will pull out only when he is absolutely convinced that the Desert Shield coalition is dead serious about forcing him out of Kuwait, and only at the very last second before any assault occurs. As Baker told U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia last week, his fear is that Saddam "will miscalculate exactly where that brink...
BATTLEFIELD HISTORIANS. Military History Detachments from all the services have been sent to the gulf to collect and preserve maps and other documents that will eventually become the official history of Desert Shield for the National Archives. Also on deck: service members with artistic talent to do sketches documenting troop life in the sand...
This time there are fewer illusions and no jaunty warriors or exultant emissaries. Television has brought the world into the galleries and to the White House. The foe is half a globe away, and the destructive forces gathered in the Saudi desert bear no comparisons to the minieball and grapeshot...
...want another Vietnam, everyone says, squinting into the desert sun. We want something swift and decisive, short and sweet -- a Panama perhaps. For these are the two poles of our collective military memory: on the one hand, the quicksand of Vietnam; on the other, the "brilliant success" of Panama, ; or so it was heralded at the time -- a military action so flawless, so perfectly executed that, as one of the generals responsible for carrying out the invasion boasted shortly afterward, "There were no lessons learned...