Schwarzkopf, H. Norman

Schwarzkopf, H. Norman
born Aug. 22, 1934, Trenton, N.J., U.S.

U.S. army commander.

The son of a brigadier general, he graduated from West Point and fought in the Vietnam War (1965–66, 1969–70). After various other assignments, he was promoted to major general (1983) and commanded forces in the invasion of Grenada. In 1988 he became a four-star general and commander of the U.S. Central Command, which included operations in the Middle East. Following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, he directed the buildup of 700,000 U.S. and allied troops in Saudi Arabia and commanded the successful Desert Storm operations in the Persian Gulf War (1991), after which he retired from active service.

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▪ United States general
born Aug. 22, 1934, Trenton, N.J., U.S.
 
 U.S. Army officer who commanded Operation Desert Storm, the American-led military action that liberated Kuwait from Iraqi occupation in the Persian Gulf War (1991).

      The son of a brigadier general, Schwarzkopf traveled abroad with his father from 1946 to 1951 and attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., graduating in 1956. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army that year and earned a master's degree in guided-missile engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1964. He served two tours of duty (1965–66, 1969–70) in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War and returned a heavily decorated combat veteran. From 1974 to 1982 he held a series of two-year assignments while rising steadily through the ranks. He was promoted to major general in 1983 and commanded the ground forces involved in the U.S. invasion of Grenada that year. Schwarzkopf became a corps commander in 1986 and was a four-star general by 1988, when he was appointed commander in chief of the U.S. Central Command (i.e., the responsible commander for any military operations in the Middle East).

      When Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait in August 1990, Schwarzkopf directed the buildup of 700,000 U.S., European, and Arab troops in Saudi Arabia to confront the Iraqis. Under his command, beginning on Jan. 16, 1991, allied forces carried out a six-week-long air bombardment of Iraq and its positions in Kuwait. In a ground campaign that began on February 24 and lasted only 100 hours, allied forces speedily retook Kuwait and destroyed or incapacitated most of the Iraqi army while sustaining only minimal casualties themselves. Hailed as a national hero after the war, Schwarzkopf retired from active service later that year.

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