The former four-star general, the image burly above his camouflage army uniforms came to define both Operation Desert Storm and a renewed sense of national pride in the military, he had lived in quiet retirement on Tampa, Florida to avoid a political battle that continues to cook on top of the world that has been left as a conqueror.
"We lost a Native American," the White House said in a statement. "General Schwarzkopf defend the country he loved the army and prayers are with the family Schwarzkopf, who tonight can know that his legacy will remain in a country that is safer for the patriotic service .."
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Former President George H.W. Bush, was hospitalized with the same disease in Texas, Schwarzkopf called "a true American patriot and one of the greatest military leaders of his generation."
Schwarzkopf, often referred to as "Stormin 'Norman" for angry legendary, best known for his command 765,000-strong force of international forces pushed the Allied troops of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from Kuwait six months after they have invaded the small sheikhdom Gulf oil , terrorizing citizens and take over the oil fields.
This is a dangerous operation: Iraq has the fourth largest army in the world, has a large Soviet-supplied arsenal of weapons, has sent elite troops of the Republican Guard to the main defensive positions, and warned the President the Iraqi border was fortified with trenches of oil that can be burned and become death traps for U.S. troops who have dared to venture through.
But Schwarzkopf, with a frightening knowledge, has practiced the fight with only a few days before the 1990 invasion of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August and the country has begun to put in place, providing leadership in Washington that the war could be won with a combination of powerful American air power and a wide range of troops in the field.
Finally, after weeks of pounding by American bombers and missiles, ground the war was over in just 100 hours, with combat casualties of the United States limited to 147 people were killed and 467 wounded.
In the decision, President Bush and Army Gen. Colin L. Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Schwarzkopf agreed to end a brief war destroy the Republican Guard and the recording of Saddam Hussein - a decision that would dog the rest of his life, especially since the United States entered the war once again against Iraq in 2003.
Eventually, Schwarzkopf insisted he had received as a correct decision, even if it embraces with enthusiasm - continues to cause carnage in the withdrawal of Iraqi forces for another day will be very useful to upset the balance of power in the region and may risk more American casualties, he said.
Similarly, dismissed criticism that stopped the fighting has pulled the rug out from under the nascent revolt by Iraq's Shiite south and Kurdish north, leaving them vulnerable and exposed to the carnage once U.S. forces go home .
The Kurds have fought the Iraqi regime for many years and will continue to do so, he said. "Yes, we are disappointed that it happened. But not affect the fulfillment of one way or another our mission," he said at a press conference after the war.
6-foot, 3-inch common home to heroes welcome, appeared on Broadway Parade, Kentucky Derby Pegasus Parade in Louisville and unusual joint session of Congress, where he received a standing ovation. British Queen Elizabeth II awarded him a knighthood.
"The defeat of Saddam's forces, he lost a scar on the American psyche on Vietnam," said Frank Wuco, a former intelligence officer who helped design the battle plan Navy during Desert Storm. "He showed the Americans, particularly the U.S. military, what we hear again a winner."
In a 1992 autobiography, written with Peter Petre, Schwarzkopf disparaging personal courage and launched the idea of something you said earlier the journalist Barbara Walters. "No need to be a hero to order men into battle has a hero to be one of those people who go to war."
Schwarzkopf was born August 22, 1934, in Trenton, NJ diploma from West Point Military Academy in 1956, he followed in the footsteps of his father, a general who served in both World War II and went on to found the police New Jersey State who is investigating the kidnapping of a baby boy aviators Charles Lindbergh famous.
Schwarzkopf went on to earn a master's degree in engineering at USC and has taught engineering missiles West Point in 1966 before volunteering to serve in the Vietnam conflict - the so-called "waste", in which he said that the military commanders who are more interested in promoting their careers in winning the war.
But Schwarzkopf went on to earn the praise of their troops, at one point landing of a helicopter into a minefield to rescue people trapped inside. He was wounded twice and won three Silver Stars for valor.
He commanded the ground forces during the invasion of Grenada in 1983 and in 1988 he became the central command of the United States, supervising a staff of 700 to MacDill Air Force Base near Tampa. There, he quickly dismissed the Playbook old saying that the Soviet Union was the greatest threat to American interests in the Middle East. He turned his eyes just in Iraq.
With headquarters in the Saudi capital Riyadh during the accumulation of Desert Storm, Schwarzkopf has a shotgun in a corner, and in his life parts, an edition of the Bible and "Attack German Infantry of World War II Field Marshal Erwin Rommel."
Often said he hoped to be more patient, but sometimes criticized the idea that he had a bad temper.
"Much has been written about my emotions. But I challenge anyone to go back in time and tell me who ruined my career, someone who I drove out of service, someone I've been fired from a job," he said. "I did not do it.'m Angry on principle, not people."
He leaves his wife, Brenda, two daughters, Cynthia and Jessica, a son, Christian, grandchildren, and sisters Ruth and Sally Barenbaum Schwarzkopf.
Source : http://www.latimes.com
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