1st Infantry and Operation Desert Storm
Army veteran Colonel Gregory Fontenot discussed his book, The 1st Infantry Division and the U.S. Army Transformed: Road to Victory in… read more
Army veteran Colonel Gregory Fontenot discussed his book, The 1st Infantry Division and the U.S. Army Transformed: Road to Victory in Desert Storm, 1970-1991. Colonel Fontenot focuses on the changes the division went through after the Vietnam War and how these innovations helped them engage and defeat at least a dozen Iraqi divisions, taking more than 14,000 prisoners during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. close
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