Category:Veterans of Recent Wars

These folk were Veterans of recent conflicts in Somalia, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, as identified by the Baseball and the Armed Forces Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).

This information has been dug out of numerous sources including newspaper obituaries (OB), VA Hospital Records (VA), Miltary Cemetery websites (CM), Soldier & Sailors System (CW), Sporting Life (SL), The Sporting News (TSN), Stars&Stripes (S&S), the SABR BIOProject (BP), The Sports Encyclopedia:Baseball 2006 by David Neft & Richard Cohen (N&C), old Who's Who in Baseballs (WW), old Baseball Registers (BR), Commissioners Lists (CL), The Baseball Necrology (BN), Baseball in World War II Europe by Gary Bedingfield (GB), independent research by Walter Kephart and Frank Russo and others.

The 1991 Persian Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations[1] mandated by the United Nations and led by the United States. The lead up to the war began with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, following unproven Iraqi contentions that Kuwait was illegally "slant-drilling" oil across Iraq's border. The invasion was met with immediate economic sanctions by the United Nations against Iraq. Hostilities commenced in January 1991, resulting in a decisive victory for the coalition forces, which drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait with minimal coalition deaths. The main battles were aerial and ground combat within Iraq, Kuwait, and bordering areas of Saudi Arabia. The war did not expand outside the immediate Iraq/Kuwait/Saudi border region, although Iraq fired missiles on Israeli cities.

The War on Terrorism or "War on Terror" (in U.S. foreign policy circles, Global War on Terrorism or GWOT1; recently also Long War) is a controversial campaign by the United States government and some of its allies with the stated goal of ending international terrorism by stopping terrorist groups and ending state sponsorship of terrorism. The "war on terrorism" was launched, ostensibly in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington D.C. attributed to Al-Qaeda and has become a central part of U.S. President George W. Bush's foreign and domestic policy. Unlike earlier concepts and definitions of war — with defined nations, boundaries, and standing armies and navies — the "War on Terrorism" has largely been dominated by the use of special forces, intelligence, police work, diplomacy and propaganda.

The United States invasion of Afghanistan occurred in October 2001, in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, marking the beginning of its "War on Terrorism" campaign. Seeking to oust the Taliban and find Al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden, the Afghan Northern Alliance provided the majority of forces, and the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, New Zealand, Italy, and Germany provided support. The U.S. military name of the invasion was Operation Enduring Freedom1. The officially-stated purpose of the invasion was to target al-Qaeda members, and to punish the Taliban government in Afghanistan which had provided support and haven to al-Qaeda.

The Iraq War or War in Iraq1,2 is an informal U.S. term for the military conflict in Iraq including the 2003 Invasion of Iraq by the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, overthrow of the Iraqi government, occupation and subsequent military activities by US, UK and other forces, including the ouster of the brutal dictator, Saddam Hussein and the establishment of democracy in Iraq.

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