{"id":1308,"date":"2024-12-22T21:26:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T21:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=1308"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:46:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:46:57","slug":"34th-anniversary-of-the-gulf-war","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/events\/34th-anniversary-of-the-gulf-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary of the Gulf War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Gulf War<\/strong>\u00a0was an armed conflict between\u00a0Iraq\u00a0and a\u00a042-country coalition, including the United Kingdom. The coalition&#8217;s efforts against Iraq were carried out in two key phases:\u00a0<strong>Operation Desert Shield<\/strong>, which marked the military build-up from August 1990 to January 1991; and\u00a0<strong>Operation Desert Storm<\/strong>, which began with the\u00a0aerial bombing campaign against Iraq\u00a0on 17 January 1991 and came to a close with the American-led\u00a0liberation of Kuwait\u00a0on 28 February 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 28th February will be the Anniversary of the last day of the Gulf War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Gulf War\u00a0was an armed conflict between\u00a0Iraq\u00a0and a\u00a042-country coalition, including the United Kingdom. The coalition&#8217;s efforts against Iraq were carried out in two key phases:\u00a0Operation Desert Shield, which marked the military build-up from August 1990 to January 1991; and\u00a0Operation Desert Storm, which began with the\u00a0aerial bombing campaign against Iraq\u00a0on 17 January 1991 and came to a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":""},"tags":[],"mec_category":[],"class_list":["post-1308","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}