Media Network Vintage Vault 2018-2019

This programme was made a couple of weeks after Operation Desert Storm had started. After an item about Kashmir, we contacted Victor Goonetilleke to catch up on Operation Desert Storm. I think we underestimate just how up to date our monitors were.  From Wikipedia: The Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Shield (2 August 1990 – 17 January 1991) for operations leading to the buildup of troops and  of  and Operation Desert Storm (17 January 1991 – 28 February 1991) in its combat phase, was a war waged by  from 35 nations led by the United States against  in response to Iraq's  arising from oil pricing and production disputes.