Another great hero has passed. http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/27/us/schwarzkopf-obit/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Well, kudos for winning the first war after Saigon and repairing that portion of our national psyche, but I kind of wonder how Desert Storm stacks up against Kosovo and everything hence. No knocking a winning general, but I earnestly wonder how he compares to Clark, Myers and Franks.
footnote: Leader of perhaps the largest scale invasion in human history. On Aug. 2, 1990, Iraqi forces occupied Kuwait. Schwarzkopf moved his headquarters to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and amassed hundreds of ships, thousands of aircraft and 765,000 allied troops, including 540,000 Americans and large Arab contingents under Prince Khaled bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia, who was co-commander in the gulf war. A trade embargo and warnings failed to force an Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait, and after a deadline passed on Jan. 15, 1991, the world's first heavily televised war began.
