{"id":1956,"date":"2025-07-13T16:24:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T16:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2025-07-13T16:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T16:25:04","slug":"1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/?p=1956","title":{"rendered":"Operation Desert Storm: Dismantling Iraq&#8217;s Army"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Operation-Desert-Storm_-Dismantling-Iraqs-Army.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PODCAST: explore <strong>Operation Desert Storm<\/strong>, a pivotal military conflict in the Middle East that redefined modern warfare. It explains how <strong>Iraq&#8217;s 1990 invasion of Kuwait<\/strong>, driven by Saddam Hussein&#8217;s dire financial situation after the Iran-Iraq War, triggered an international response. The narrative outlines the <strong>formation of a U.S.-led coalition<\/strong>, the strategic deployment of forces in <strong>Operation Desert Shield<\/strong>, and the subsequent, highly effective <strong>air campaign<\/strong> that paved the way for a rapid ground offensive. The text highlights the <strong>technological superiority and flanking maneuvers<\/strong> employed by coalition forces, leading to a decisive victory within 100 hours, despite the controversial &#8220;Highway of Death&#8221; incident, ultimately establishing the <strong>United States as the sole global superpower.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PODCAST: explore Operation Desert Storm, a pivotal military conflict in the Middle East that redefined modern warfare. It explains how Iraq&#8217;s 1990 invasion of Kuwait, driven by Saddam Hussein&#8217;s dire financial situation after the Iran-Iraq War, triggered an international response. The narrative outlines the formation of a U.S.-led coalition, the strategic deployment of forces in&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/?p=1956\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Operation Desert Storm: Dismantling Iraq&#8217;s Army<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical-relevance","category-podcast","category-the-truben-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1959,"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions\/1959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}