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Persian Gulf War
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Clockwise from top:
USAF
aircraft flying over
burning Kuwaiti oil wells
; British troops in
Operation Granby
; Camera view of a
Lockheed AC-130
;
Highway of Death
;
M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle
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Date
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2 August 1990 ? 28 February 1991 (Operation Desert Storm officially ended 30 November 1995
[1]
)
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Location
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Iraq
,
Kuwait
,
Saudi Arabia
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Result
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- Coalition victory
- Imposition of
sanctions
against Iraq
- Removal of Iraqi invasion force from Kuwait
- Heavy Iraqi casualties and destruction of Iraqi and Kuwaiti infrastructure
|
|
Belligerents
|
Kuwait
United States
Saudi Arabia
United Kingdom
France
Egypt
Syria
Canada
Other Coalition forces
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Iraq
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Commanders
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Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Norman Schwarzkopf
Colin Powell
Khalid bin Sultan
[2]
[3]
Andrew Wilson
Peter de la Billiere
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Saddam Hussein
Ali Hassan al-Majid
Salah Aboud Mahmoud
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Strength
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959,600
[4]
1,820
Fighter aircraft
and
attack aircraft
(1,376 American, 175 Saudi, 69 British, 42 French, 24 Canadian, 8 Italian)
3,318
tanks
(mainly
M1 Abrams
(U.S.),
Challenger 1
(UK),
M60
(U.S.))
8
aircraft carriers
2
battleships
20
cruisers
20
destroyers
5
submarines
[5]
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545,000 (100,000 in Kuwait)+
649 fighters
4,500 tanks (Chinese Type-59s, Type-69s, & self produced T-55 T-62, about 500 Soviet Union
T-72
)
[5]
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Casualties and losses
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379 killed
776 wounded
[6]
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20,000-35,000 casualties
[7]
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Civilian deaths:
About 3,664 Iraqi civilians killed.
[8]
2 Israeli civilians killed, 230 injured
[9]
1 Saudi civilian killed, 65 injured
[10]
Around 1,000 Kuwaiti civilians killed during the Iraqi occupation in addition to 300,000 refugees.
[11]
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Persian Gulf War