RIP General Schwarzkopf

General Norman Schwarzkopf, the US Army General who masterminded and led the rescue of Kuwait in 1991 from the occupying Iraqi military died on Dec 27 at the age of 78.

"Stormin' Norman" as he was known to the troops and the media was a hard charging, no nonsense guy who was in the right place at the right time to pull together a coalition force of troops from various nations and pull off a huge victory, obliterating much of Saddam Husein's forces in a "one hundred hours" campaign and chasing the rest back across the Iraq border.

We can only speculate how history might have been changed for the better if that coalition force had been allowed by the various western governments to follow the Iraqi forces into Iraq and finish the job.

General Schwarzkopf wrote his autobiography after the Iraq war, titled, "It Doesn't take a Hero." It is well worth the read.

RIP General Norman Schwarzkopf