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Schwarzkopf, Norman |
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Schwarzkopf, Norman (1934- )US general. He was supreme commander of the Allied forces in the Gulf War 1991. He planned and executed a blitzkrieg campaign, ‘Desert Storm’, sustaining remarkably few Allied casualties in the liberation of Kuwait. He was a battalion commander in the Vietnam War and deputy commander of the US invasion of Grenada in 1983. Schwarzkopf was born in Trenton, New Jersey. A graduate of the military academy at West Point, he obtained a master's degree in guided-missile engineering. He became an infantry soldier and later a paratrooper, and did two tours of service in Vietnam, as an adviser 1965-66 and in command of an infantry battalion 1969-70. Maintaining the 28-member Arab-Western military coalition against Iraq in 1991 extended his diplomatic skills, and his success in the Gulf War made him a popular hero in the USA. He retired from the army in August 1991. |
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