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Gulf War
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Clockwise frae tap:
USAF
F-15Es
,
F-16s
, an an
F-15C
flyin ower
burnin Kuwaiti ile wells
; Breetish truips frae the
Staffordshire Regiment
in
Operation Granby
; camera view frae a
Lockheed AC-130
;
Highway o Daith
;
M728 Combat Ingineer Vehicle
.
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Date
| 2 August 1990 ? 28 Februar 1991
(6 months, 3 weeks and 5 days)
(Operation Desert Storm offeecially endit on 30 November 1995)
[3]
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Location
| Iraq
,
Kuwait
,
Saudi Arabie
,
Israel
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Result
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Decisive Coaleetion victory
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Belligerents
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Coaleetion forces:
Unitit States
Kuwait
Unitit Kinrick
Saudi Arabie
Fraunce
Italy
Canadae
Egyp
Sirie
Morocco
Unitit Arab Emirates
Pakistan
Oman
Qatar
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Iraq
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Commanders an leaders
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Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
George H.W. Bush
Colin Powell
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
Dick Cheney
Chuck Horner
John Major
Margaret Thatcher
Peter de la Billiere
Keeng Fahd
Prince Khalid bin Sultan
[4]
[5]
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Saddam Hussein
Ali Hassan al-Majid
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri
Salah Aboud Mahmoud
Hussein Kamel al-Majid
Abid Hamid Mahmud
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Strenth
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956,600, includin 700,000 US Truips
[6]
[7]
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650,000 frontline troops.
1,000,000 reserve troops
4,280 tanks
700 aircraft
2,870 APCs/IFVs
3,110 artillery pieces
[8]
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Casualties an losses
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Coaleetion:
148 US soldiers killed in action,
[9]
145 non-hostile daiths
467 woondit in action
Tot: 293 killed
776 woondit
[10]
Equipment losses:
Tanks destroyed: 28
[11]
[12]
Artillery destroyed: 1
[13]
IFVs destroyed: 9
[13]
Helicopters destroyed: 23
[8]
Aircraft destroyed: 52
[8]
Kuwait
:
200 killed
[14]
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20,000?35,000 killed
75,000+ woondit
[10]
300,000 desertit or capturt
[15]
Equipment losses:
Tanks destroyed: 3,700
[8]
?4,000
[13]
Airtillery destroyed: 2,140
[13]
IFVs destroyed: 1,856
[13]
Helicopters destroyed: 7
[13]
Aircraft destroyed: 240
[13]
Naval Ships sunk: 19
[8]
Naval Ships damaged: 6
[8]
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Kuwaiti ceevilian losses:
Ower 1,000 killed
[16]
600
missin fowk
[17]
Iraqi ceevilian losses:
Aboot 3,664 killed
[18]
Ither ceevilian losses:
300 ceevilians killed, mair injured
[19]
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The
Gulf War
(2 August 1990 ? 28 Februar 1991), codenamed
Operation Desert Shield
(2 August 1990 ? 17 Januar 1991) for operations leadin tae the bigup o truips an defense o
Saudi Arabie
an
Operation Desert Storm
(17 Januar 1991 ? 28 Februar 1991) in its combat phase, wis a war in the
Persie Gulf
region waged bi
Unitit States-led
coaleetion forces
frae 34 naitions against
Ba'athist Iraq
in response tae Iraq's
invasion an annexation o Kuwait
.
- ↑
"Bangladesh and the Gulf War: Response of a Small State"
. Jstor Home. 24 September 1997
. Retrieved
1 Februar
2015
.
- ↑
"Persian Gulf War"
. Jstor Home. 3 November 1991
. Retrieved
4 December
2015
.
- ↑
"Historical Events on 30th November"
. Historyorb.com
. Retrieved
18 Mairch
2010
.
- ↑
Persian Gulf War, the Sandhurst-trained Prince
Khaled bin Sultan al-Saud was co-commander with General Norman Schwarzkopf
www.casi.org.uk/discuss
Archived
2016-03-03 at the
Wayback Machine
- ↑
General Khaled was Co-Commander, with U.S. General Norman Schwarzkopf, of the allied coalition that liberated Kuwait
www.thefreelibrary.com
Archived
2011-04-30 at the
Wayback Machine
- ↑
Gulf War Coaleetion Forces (Latest available) bi kintra
www.nationmaster.com
at nationmaster.com
(archived
)
- ↑
Hersh, Seymour (2005).
Chain of Command
. Penguin Books. p.
181
.
- ↑
a
b
c
d
e
f
"Fast Facts about Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm"
.
osd.mil
. Archived frae
the original
on 6 Mey 2020
. Retrieved
2 Apryle
2016
.
- ↑
International Law Norms, Actors, Process, 3rd Edition
- ↑
a
b
"Persian Gulf War"
. MSN Encarta. Archived frae
the original
on 1 November 2009
. Retrieved
2 Apryle
2016
.
- ↑
"Tanks During the First Gulf War"
. Archived frae
the original
on 3 Mairch 2016
. Retrieved
2 Apryle
2016
.
- ↑
Nordeen&Isby P.66
- ↑
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
"1991 Gulf War Information"
.
cryan.com
.
- ↑
Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait; 1990 (Air War)
. Acig.org. Retrieved on 12 June 2011
- ↑
Kenneth Michael Pollack--
Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948?1991
. 2002. Page 573.
- ↑
"The Use of Terror during Iraq's invasion of Kuwait"
. The Jewish Agency for Israel. Archived frae
the original
on 24 Januar 2005
. Retrieved
22 Juin
2010
.
- ↑
"Kuwait: missing people: a step in the right direction"
. Red Cross. Archived frae
the original
on 7 Mairch 2016
. Retrieved
2 Apryle
2016
.
- ↑
"The Wages of War: Iraqi Combatant and Noncombatant Fatalities in the 2003 Conflict"
. Project on Defense Alternatives. Archived frae
the original
on 4 Januar 2016
. Retrieved
9 Mey
2009
.
- ↑
Fetter, Steve; Lewis, George N.; Gronlund, Lisbeth (28 Januar 1993).
"Why were Casualties so low?"
(PDF)
.
Nature
. London.
361
(6410): 293?296.
doi
:
10.1038/361293a0
.
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