Challenger Mk 3 “Ards", Queen's Royal Irish Hussars. Operation Desert Sabre, Kuwait, 1991 Pt.1

Rain pounded the desert for most of the offensive. Even worse, it was a sticky, oily rain—caused by precipitation mixing with the billowing smoke from Kuwait’s oil fields, which the Iraqis had set afire. "Wars can be swift; wars can seem to go on forever. And depending on your perspective, even a hundred-hour war can feel like an eternity.”