Operation Desert Storm

There is precedent for what Moscow is proposing: the post-1991 U.N. regime imposed on Iraq after Operation Desert Storm.

He was recalled for active duty in 1991—two years after returning home to Minnesota—for Operation Desert Storm.

That memory haunted him, resurrected in flashbacks eight years later after a tour in the Gulf during Operation Desert Storm.

Both opted for naval careers, became pilots, and flew dozens of missions during Operation Desert Storm.