BREAKING NEWS : Retired General Norman Schwarzkopf dies at 78

	BREAKING NEWS : Retired General Norman Schwarzkopf dies at 78 BREAKING NEWS : Retired General Norman Schwarzkopf dies at 78 Desert Storm commander Norman Schwarzkopf dies at 78 Desert Storm commander Norman Schwarzkopf dies at 78 Slideshow: Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., 1934-2012 Consolidated News Pictures / Getty Images file Click to view scenes from the life of the retired Army general. Launch slideshow By M. Alex Johnson, NBC News Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, the blunt, bulldog-like commander of US-led coalition forces in the first Persian Gulf War, died Thursday in Florida. He was 78. Schwarzkopf died after a long illness at his home in Tampa, where he lived in retirement, a senior defense official told NBC News. Schwarzkopf, a highly decorated Vietnam War veteran who rose quickly through the Army's ranks during the 1970s and '80s, drew up the initial plans for the successful US-led ejection of Saddam Hussein's forces from Kuwait, which Iraq invaded in 1990. He then became famous for his pointed and inventive language during the almost-daily televised briefings he gave reporters as commander of Operation Desert Storm in 1991, invariably clad in desert camouflage, which he is credited with introducing. Advertise | AdChoices Schwarzkopf described the key maneuver that led to the end of the ground war, a redeployment of forces into Iraq behind Iraqi lines, with a boxing metaphor: He called it a "left hook." And he memorably dismissed one report he disagreed with as "bovine scatology." In his 1992 autobiography, "It Doesn't Take <b>...</b>	From: hi5viralnews2 Views: 0 0 ratings
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