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U.S. Military Operations, Factsheets and Military Power

Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Desert Storm, Operation Desert Strike and Operation Allied Force.

• Americas War Against Iraq - Operation Iraqi Freedom - Operation Iraqi Freedom, also known as the Second Gulf War, the Occupation of Iraq, or Iraq War, is an ongoing military campaign which began on March 20, 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a multinational force now led by and composed almost entirely of troops from the United States and United Kingdom.
• America´s War Against Iraq - Operation Iraqi Freedom Video
• America´s War Against Terrorism - Operation Enduring Freedom - Operation Enduring Freedom is the official name used by the U.S. Government for its contribution to the War in Afghanistan, together with three smaller military actions, under the umbrella of its Global War on Terror.
• America´s War Against Iraq - Operation Iraqi Freedom Video
• Operation Enduring Freedom Timeline - Operation Enduring Freedom Marks Four Years - Four years ago today, America launched its counterattack against terrorism, hammering terrorist targets in Afghanistan and ushering in Operation Enduring Freedom and the global war on terror.
• The Unfinished War - Operation Desert Storm - Operation Desert Storm - also known as the Persian Gulf War, First or Second Persian Gulf War, Operation Granby, or Operation Desert Storm.
• Operation Desert Storm - Deutschlands Beitrag zum Golfkrieg 1991 - Der Golfkrieg 1991 zur Befreiung Kuwaits hat Deutschland insgesamt 17 Milliarden Mark gekostet. Vor allem mit logistischen und finanziellen Leistungen hat die damalige Bundesregierung unter Bundeskanzler Helmut Kohl die alliierten Truppen entlastet und die von dem Konflikt betroffenen Staaten unterstützt.
• Operation Desert Storm - Der Golfkrieg II - Wuestensturm und die Folgen - Saddam Hussein wollte den freien Zugang zum Persischen Golf. Unter dem Vorwand, Kuwait würde illegal Ölquellen anzapfen, marschierten am 2. August 1990 irakische Truppen in das kleine Scheichtum ein.
• Operation Desert Strike - Cruise missile strikes on Iraq 03-04 September 1996 - Operation Desert Strike was a military operation that lasted for a few weeks in September 1996 during one of the Iraqi disarmament crises. The attacks occurred after the Iraqi military moved its troops to help capture Irbil in Iraqi Kudistan in August 1996. Forty-four cruise missiles targeted Iraqi air defenses in southern Iraq.
• America´s Military Power - The United States Armed Forces are the overall unified military forces of the United States. The United States military was first formed by the second Continental Congress to defend the new nation against the British Empire in the American Revolutionary War.
• Operation Allied Force - NATO Air strikes against Yugoslavia - Operation Allied Force was the military response of NATO to the 1999 Kosovo crisis, and the first major combat operation in NATO history. On March 24, 1999, NATO launched an attack on Yugoslavia, making good on a long-standing threat to strike if Serbs refused to sign a peace plan for Kosovo.The assault included air- and sea-launched cruise missiles and bombing runs by American, German and French aircraft.

U.S. Military Fact Files - Information on Hardware of the U.S. Military

• U.S. Military Fact Files - United States Military Weapons and Equipment - The United States Armed Forces are the overall unified military forces of the United States.
• U.S. Army Fact Files - United States Army Weapons and Equipment - The United States Army is the branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations.
• U.S. Navy Fact Files - United States Navy Weapons and Equipment - The United States Navy is the sea branch of the U.S. Armed Forces. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.
• U.S. Air Force Fact Sheets - United States Air Force Weapons and Equipment - The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare branch of the U.S. armed forces and one of the American uniformed services.
• U.S. Marine Corps Fact Files - United States Marine Corps Weapons and Equipment - The United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing force projection from the sea, using the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces.
• U.S. Coast Guard Resources - United States Coast Guard Aircraft, Boats, and Cutters - The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is a military branch of the United States involved in maritime law, mariner assistance, and search and rescue, among other duties of coast guards elsewhere.