Norman Schwarzkopf

Norman Schwarzkopf. (1934- ), American army officer. Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1956 and earned a master's degree from the University of Southern California School of Engineering in 1964. A much-decorated veteran of numerous military assignments, including two tours of duty in Vietnam, he first attained the rank of general in 1978 and in October 1983 was deputy commander of U.S. forces in the invasion of Grenada. In 1988 he was appointed to head the U.S. Central Command. After Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, he was responsible for planning and executing Operation Desert Storm, the U.S.-led multinational campaign that liberated Kuwait during the Persian Gulf War (1991). His autobiography, It Doesn't Take a Hero, was published in 1992.