Brief introduction of norman schwarzkopf's life

1934 On August 22nd, Swarovski was born in Trenton, New Jersey, USA. His father is a brigadier general. 19 17 entered the west point military academy and was sent to Iran to train the Iranian army during world war ii. From 1946 to 195 1 year, Shi Huakou and his father lived in Iran. 195 1 entered West Point Military Academy, 1956 graduated. After graduation, he served as second lieutenant platoon leader in the airborne division of 10 1 division, then transferred to Berlin brigade and promoted to lieutenant. 196 1 was sent to Fort Benning Infantry School for further training of infantry officers. From 65438 to 0964, schwarzkopf obtained a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Southern California, and later went to West Point Military Academy as a department of mechanical engineering teacher. 1965 served as the main consultant of the airborne troops in south Vietnam, and later served as the staff officer of the US military headquarters in Vietnam and the battalion commander of the 23rd Infantry Brigade 1 battalion. 1970 After returning from Vietnam, he entered the Pentagon to work. 1976, schwarzkopf became the brigade commander of the 9th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army 1 978, and was transferred to the position of Deputy Director of Planning Department of the U.S. Pacific Command. Here, he participated in the work of the joint command of the army, navy and air force. 1980, schwarzkopf was promoted to general and went to Europe as the deputy commander of the 8th Mechanical Infantry Division of the US Army. 1982 served as the commander of the 24th mechanized infantry division in Georgia. 1983, schwarzkopf served as deputy commander-in-chief of the joint task force for military operations in invasion of grenada. After the successful raid on Grenada, he was promoted to Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army Operations Department. 1 In 1986, he served as commander of the US Army1Army stationed in China and was promoted to lieutenant general. 1987 served as deputy chief of staff of the us army operations.

1988165438+10, schwarzkopf was promoted to a four-star general and served as the commander-in-chief of the US Central Command. During this period, he studied regional conflicts, low-intensity operations, desert operations and special forces operations. Schwartz has been paying close attention to the situation in the Gulf. He organized a special team to track the situation in the Middle East and the Gulf, and organized troops to conduct desert and overseas combat training exercises many times.

1On August 2, 1990, when the Gulf War broke out, schwarzkopf quickly worked out a "90- 1002" battle plan to contain Iraqi entry into Saudi Arabia. He believes that Iraq's advantage lies in its large-scale ground forces and chemical weapons, while air and sea forces pose no threat and are well-equipped. The U.S. military, which has the right to control the sea, air and electromagnetism, can first destroy Iraq's defense system through the powerful firepower of sea and air. After schwarzkopf became the commander-in-chief of the US Gulf Force and the commander-in-chief of the multinational force, it took only three months to deploy more than 500,000 troops equipped with modern high-tech weapons in the Gulf region in an orderly manner.

After five and a half months of intense military confrontation and diplomatic contest, the multinational forces launched a combat operation codenamed "Desert Storm" on 199 1 17, and carried out large-scale air strikes against Iraq. At that time, the United Nations passed a resolution allowing the use of force against Iraq after 65438+ 10/5. Considering the meteorological conditions required for simultaneous air strikes by sea and air, "moonless night" and "high tide night" are the most favorable, with 65438+ 10 15:65438+ 10/0 17-20 and February/kloc. Generally speaking, the first phase was too hasty, and the third phase coincided with the Muslim Ramadan. After that, the weather turned hot and sandstorms increased, only the second phase was the best. However, Shi Huakou chose 65438+ 10/7, which was completely unexpected by the Iraqi army. Therefore, when the multinational forces led by the United States launched an air strike, the city of Baghdad was still brightly lit, and it took 40 minutes to implement the blackout. The Iraqi plane was blown up at the airport before taking off; The Iraqi army's surface-to-air missiles didn't work, only some anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns fired at the air. Air strikes have caused great losses to Iraq. Missiles launched from the air and sea have fallen to the intended targets; Thousands of planes are like roaring iron birds preying on defenseless opponents. It took the multinational forces only a few days to beat the Iraqi army on the ground. At first, schwarzkopf deliberately created the momentum of directly entering Kuwait from the left, and at the same time commanded troops to attack from the right, and surrounded the Iraqi army in Kuwait.

Under the organization and command of schwarzkopf, after more than 1 month of strategic bombing and 100 hour of ground attack, the multinational forces wiped out dozens of Iraqi divisions at a very small cost and drove Iraqi troops out of Kuwait, thus enabling the United States to win the first large-scale local war after the Second World War.

In the Gulf War, the number of arms and services involved in combat operations, the degree of modernization of weapons and equipment, and the complexity of organization and coordination of multinational forces were the highest since the Second World War. There are more than 30 kinds of aircraft involved in air strikes by the US military alone. Schwartz successfully organized and commanded such a complex military operation, setting a precedent for commanding multinational forces to cooperate in high-tech operations.

After the Gulf War, schwarzkopf was hailed as a national hero. Later that year, he retired from active service and settled on the beautiful Florida coast, living a quiet and harmonious life with his family.