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How US special-operations forces helped the US military win its first post-Cold War victory
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As the threat from the Soviet Union declined in the early 1990s, a new challenge for the US arose in the Middle East.
The first Gulf War was a textbook conventional war, but it featured an array special-operations missions that helped secure victory.
Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, the US military shifted its focus from Russia to the Middle East.
In August 1990, Saddam Hussein s Iraq invaded neighboring Kuwait, starting an international crisis that would end with Iraq s defeat by a US-led coalition six months later.
How US special-operations forces helped the US military win its first post-Cold War victory
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Inside the covert mission that sent Delta Force and British SAS deep behind Iraqi lines in search of Saddam s missiles
Inside the covert mission that sent Delta Force and British SAS deep behind Iraqi lines in search of Saddam s missiles
Stavros AtlamazoglouFeb 12, 2021, 19:53 IST
Iraqis drive by a mural depicting Iraqi President Saddam Hussein looking at launched Scud missiles, in Thar Thar City in northern Iraq, April 28, 1999.KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images
In January and February 1991, hundreds of thousands of troops in a US-led coalition pushed Iraqi forces out of Kuwait during Operation
Desert Storm.
Amid that campaign,
Delta Force and the British SAS went deep behind Iraqi lines to neutralize the Scud missiles that