Wars Against Saddam (2011 - 2011)

The Middle East, as we know it today, and many of the countries we now recognize in that region, did not exist when the First World War began in 1914This is the story of the Middle East from the Kingdom of Persia through the Ottoman Empire and how after the First World War Great Britain re-drew the map of the region, along with others of the Allied Powers.

In 1990 Iraq accused Kuwait of stealing Iraqi petroleum through slant drilling.

To wage war against Saddam's forces in Kuwait an array of nations joined the United States in a Coalition, the largest military alliance since World War II. The great majority of the Coalition's military forces were from the U.S., with Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and Egypt as leading contributors, in that order. This is the story behind that build up.

The Air campaign of the 1991 Gulf War began with extensive aerial bombing to shape the battlefield. The aerial strike force was made up of over 2,250 combat aircraft which included 1,800 U.S. aircraft with over 100,000 sorties flown.

This is the end around attack by massive armor formations that crushed Saddam's Republican Guard and the Iraqi military in record time. The Coalition forces were halted before they could topple Saddam.

Veterans recount where they were on September 11th and the steps the military was taking to strike back.

Did he or did he not have weapons of mass destruction? The case for both sides on Saddam's secret stockpile.

The development of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the race to Baghdad is explored, including the story of the "Thunder Run" into the Iraqi capital with exclusive video shot by the tankers who took the city.

The final days of Saddam as Coalition forces destroy the Iraqi army and take all major cities, including Baghdad. Saddam and his government collapses.