General Norman Schwarzkopf obituary

Commander of the coalition forces that drove Iraqi troops out of Kuwait during the Gulf war Norman Schwarzkopf in 1991. Despite his nickname of ‘Stormin’ Norman’, he planned military campaigns meticulously. Photograph: Ron Sachs/Corbis General Norman Schwarzkopf, who has died aged 78, commanded the coalition forces that won the Gulf war in 1991, driving Saddam Hussein's troops out of Kuwait with Operation Desert Storm, whose design proved as effective as he had convinced his superiors in Washington it would be. The US secretary of defence Leon Panetta has described Schwarzkopf as "one of the great military giants of the 20th century", which is perhaps an exaggeration, given the Iraqi army's...