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As did GEN Norman Schwarzkopf, who served in the Vietnam War, GEN Colin Powell applied what he learned in Vietnam to, "Operation Desert Storm", in 1991; which resulted in complete victory, and the lowest US casualties (and actually lower than that) since the Spanish-American War of 1898; which was nicknamed the, "Splendid Little War".

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