Aug 1990: Then President George H. Bush (the senior Bush) leads international military and political coalition (of 34 nations)
Operation Desert Shield (a.k.a Gulf War I a.k.a. the First Gulf War a.k.a. Desert Storm) ultimately liberates (oil–rich) Kuwait (by Feb 1991)…
Israel hit by 39 Scud missiles from Iraq… Under threat of chemical and/or germ warfare from Iraq, Israelis deploy and utilize their shelter system—as well as two U.S. Patriot missile battalions (as well as a Netherlands Patriot Squadron).
U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Colin Powell, was the military chief in overall command of the multi–national alliance, which successfully counter–attacked and liberated Kuwait.
Powell later, in 2000, becomes the first Secretary of State of the George W. Bush (the junior Bush) administration, (after the 8–year–tenure of the Clinton administration) a decade later.