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2 cards. Each one is a 40-second story with a five-minute read behind it.

1. The desert encounter that eclipsed the tank battles of World War IIIn late February 1991, a massive armored onslaught turned the Iraqi desert into a concentrated shooting gallery. Known as 'Fright Night,' this intense period of combat involved ov…
2. Was the Amiriyah shelter bombing a calculated military strike or a war crime?On February 13, 1991, two stealth bombers dropped 2,000-pound laser-guided bombs on a Baghdad shelter. While the U.S. military targeted it as a command center, hundreds of civilia…

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