{"id":3360,"date":"2012-12-28T12:26:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T10:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=3360"},"modified":"2012-12-28T12:26:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T10:26:39","slug":"stormin-norman-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2012\/12\/stormin-norman-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Stormin&#8217; Norman passes away."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The architect of the whirlwind coalition victory against Saddam Hussein in the 1990 Gulf War, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf has passed away from complications related to pneumonia at age 78. \u00c2\u00a0He will be remembered by military historians for the way in which he designed\u00c2\u00a0the air and ground\u00c2\u00a0campaign\u00c2\u00a0that resulted in what has come to be called the 100 Hour War. \u00c2\u00a0He also had some very memorable press conferences during the war.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3361\" style=\"width: 405px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Stormin-Norman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3361\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3361\" alt=\"Official Photo of General Schwarzkopf from his final assignment as CINC CENTCOM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Stormin-Norman.jpg\" width=\"395\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Stormin-Norman.jpg 395w, https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Stormin-Norman-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Official Photo of General Schwarzkopf from his final assignment as CINC CENTCOM<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our thoughts are with his wife and children in their time of grief. \u00c2\u00a0May he Rest in Peace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/12\/27\/gen-norman-schwarzkopf-who-led-coalition-forces-in-persian-gulf-war-dies\/\">Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, coalition forces leader during Persian Gulf War, dies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The architect of the whirlwind coalition victory against Saddam Hussein in the 1990 Gulf War, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf has passed away from complications related to pneumonia at age 78. \u00c2\u00a0He will be remembered by military historians for the way in&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2012\/12\/stormin-norman-passes-away\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[460],"tags":[658,559,657,656],"class_list":["post-3360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-strategy","tag-centcom","tag-death","tag-gulf-war","tag-norman-schwarzkopf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}