United States Merchant Marines - Operation Desert Shield, Storm with Desert Storm and Desert Shield Service Ribbons - T Shirt - ClassicOperation Desert Shield was a 2006 operation by the Iraqi insurgency and al Qaeda in Iraq, planned in December 2005 as a push against American forces during the Iraq War. The goal was to destabilize the American foothold in the Anbar province over the course of six months. The planning of the operation was not discovered by the Americans until documents captured after the death of Faris Abu Azzam were finally translated, and revealed the details of