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Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Army Gen. Colin L. Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, meet with reporters in the Pentagon Briefing Room to discuss the air attacks by coalition forces undertaken as the first phase of the effort to dislodge Iraqi forces from Kuwait. The secretary and chairman spoke with the press approximately 2 and a half hours after the commencement of hostilities, Jan. 16, 1991. It was announced the operation would be called Desert Storm.

Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Army Gen. Colin L. Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, meet with reporters in the Pentagon Briefing Room to discuss the air attacks by coalition forces undertaken as the first phase of the effort to dislodge Iraqi forces from Kuwait. The secretary and chairman spoke with the press approximately 2 and a half hours after the commencement of hostilities, Jan. 16, 1991. It was announced the operation would be called Desert Storm.

Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Army Gen. Colin L. Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, meet with reporters in the Pentagon Briefing Room to discuss the air attacks by coalition forces undertaken as the first phase of the effort to dislodge Iraqi forces from Kuwait. The secretary and chairman spoke with the press approximately 2 and a half hours after the commencement of hostilities, Jan. 16, 1991. It was announced the operation would be called Desert Storm.

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