Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. soldiers examine an Iraqi tank destroyed in February 1991. (Eric Bouvet, Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images) Mark T. Gerges commanded ...
February 1991, during the Gulf War, U.S. forces launch a massive armored assault against Iraqi Republican Guard units defending the flank of the Iraqi army in Kuwait. The clash becomes known as the ...