The Operation DESERT STORM ground campaign began on 24 February 1991 after thirty eight days of air attacks on targets in Iraq and Kuwait. GEN Schwarzkopf, with a coalition of 31 nations, unleashed all out attacks against Iraqi forces along the coalition line to force Iraq out of Kuwait. The victory proved the soundness of the Army’s Air Land Battle doctrine and justified the Army’s investment in new military hardware in the 1980s known as the “Big Five.” Operation Desert Storm ushered in "The F