Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields - Series 1 - 1991 Gulf

Peter and Dan Snow go to Kuwait to tell the story of Operation Desert Storm. Peter reveals how the tactics of both sides were dominated by cutting-edge technology and ruthless political calculation. Although the Iraqis could not compete with stealth aeroplanes an precision-guided bombs, they did have weapons of mass destruction, and gas attacks were an ever-present fear amongst the Allied soldiers. Dan experiences how just a simple gas mask would have restricted a soldier's ability to fight in such extreme conditions.