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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.
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