Overview: Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM provided a significant challenge to the Defense Intelligence Agency and to the Defense Intelligence Community. During the early stages of DESERT SHIELD, the United States and our allies faced a significant threat with only limited infrastructure and minimal command, control, communications, and intelligence assets in the region. During DESERT STORM, Coalition forces swiftly liberated Kuwait and defeated the fifth largest army in the world without suffering significant losses. Historical documents of this kind record the critical role that Military Intelligence plays in a dangerous and rapidly changing world . This extensive chronology, the first of several unclassified publications, is a guide to day-to-day support provided to the warfighter. It is for soldiers and strategists, policymakers and scholars, but most importantly, the practitioners of intelligence -- our Nation's first line of defense.

FRONT COVER: Iraqi Intelligence Service Headquarters on 10 march 1991. Hammurabi Republican guards Division tanks on 1 March 1991. Hardened aircraft shelters at Kuwait International Airport on 1 March 1991

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Information cut-off date: 17 May 1995.