Many Americans became familiar with the term "no-fly zone" following the 9/11 attacks, when one was established around Washington, D.C., but the concept is not much older than that. The first no-fly ...

Thereafter Iraq began the invasion of Kuwait, which led to the Gulf War of 1991, which led in turn to confrontations over the Iraqi no-fly zones during the 1990s, and finally the Iraq War of 2003, ...