Iraq invades Kuwait.
Coalition forces launch a massive air attack on Iraqi targets, kicking off Operation Desert Storm.
The coalition declares a cease-fire, the ground war having lasted 100 hours. Ten years since the Gulf War cease-fire. A decade after the event, we can now neatly catalog the lessons learned from this first post-Cold War military venture. We know it's not possible to answer these questions definitively. Ten years is too short a time to analyze outcomes and assign the Gulf War to its proper historical niche.