The Stormin' Normans (Horrible Histories)

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The good relationship between the allied commanders allowed their forces to co-operate effectively during the operation.

Some Horrible Histories have been based around a particular city, rather than a nation or a specific time period. Initially Schwarzkopf had endorsed the invasion, saying he was convinced that the former secretary of state Colin Powell had given the United Nations powerful evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Schwarzkopf otherwise sought to live out a low-profile retirement in Tampa, though he briefly served as a military commentator for NBC.Todd (December 28, 2012), Schwarzkopf, architect of Operation Desert Storm, dies at 78, Washington, D. We thought we were quite well informed about the Norman era but as with all Horrible Histories titles we learned a lot and then some. Note 1] The younger Schwarzkopf had two elder sisters, Ruth Ann (a civil rights and antiwar activist) [11] and Sally Joan. By January 20 he announced Iraq's nuclear test reactors had been destroyed, and by January 27 he announced that the coalition had total air superiority in Iraq. He immediately established an extremely rigorous training regimen and became well known among the troops of the command for his strict training and aggressive personality.

He also showed a preference of leading from the front and prided himself on avoiding the rear areas, which he termed a "cesspool".He planned a strategic bombing campaign to precede an offensive into Kuwait, [101] simultaneously striking the forward Iraqi forces and their supply lines. Atkinson further contended that in his leadership during the Gulf War, Schwarzkopf conducted one of the greatest military campaigns of all time, providing the United States with its "first battlefield hero in decades. Schwarzkopf arrived at the CENTCOM command in Riyadh on August 25, [92] and on August 29, he conducted his first front-line tour of the potential combat zone, accompanied by reporters. He would later push for more policies to make joint warfare, and interservice co-operation standard practice in warfare. As a 10-year-old cadet at Bordentown Military Institute, near Trenton, he posed for his official photograph wearing a stern expression because, as he said afterwards, "Some day when I become a general, I want people to know that I'm serious.