 Lieutenant General Guy C. Swan noted that SAMS graduates were indispensable in Europe after the fall of the Berlin wall and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact . They were expected to " re @-@ engineer the decades of planning that had gone into the GDP [ General Defense Plan ] almost overnight " . Swan stated that this was " the first true test of SAMS on a large scale " . SAMS graduates served in Operation Desert Shield / Desert Storm , and were " remembered most famously in the early days for producing the ' Jedi Knights ' employed by Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf in developing the famous ' left hook ' " . SAMS graduates also served in roles beyond the initial planning , with 82 graduates participating in diverse theater tasks by February 1991 . As a result , U.S. Army leadership regarded SAMS as a source of " superb planners " . 
