Gulf War

Gulf War
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.
Date 2 August 1990 – 28 Februar 1991 (6 months, 3 weeks and 5 days) (Operation Desert Storm offeecially endit on 30 November 1995)[3] Location Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabie, Israel Result Decisive Coaleetion victory Iraqi widrawal frae Kuwait Kuwaiti monarchy restored Sanctions against Iraq Hivy casualties an destruction o Iraqi an Kuwaiti infrastructur Establishment o Iraqi no-flee zones
Belligerents
Coaleetion forces:  Unitit States  Kuwait  Unitit Kinrick  Saudi Arabie  Fraunce  Italy  Canadae  Egyp  Sirie  Morocco  Unitit Arab Emirates  Pakistan  Oman  Qatar Non-combat support:  Australie  Bahrain  Bangladesh[1][2]  Belgium Czechoslovakie  Spain  Luxembourg  Netherlands  New Zealand  Niger  Norawa  Poland  Greece  Hungary  Senegal  Sooth Korea  Swaden  Soviet Union	Iraq
Commanders an leaders
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 Billière Keeng Fahd Prince Khalid bin Sultan[4][5]	Saddam Hussein Ali Hassan al-Majid Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri Salah Aboud Mahmoud Hussein Kamel al-Majid Abid Hamid Mahmud
Strenth
956,600, includin 700,000 US Truips [6][7]	650,000 frontline troops. 1,000,000 reserve troops 4,280 tanks 700 aircraft 2,870 APCs/IFVs 3,110 artillery pieces[8]
Casualties an losses
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]	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]
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]

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.

1. ↑ "Bangladesh and the Gulf War: Response of a Small State". Jstor Home. 24 September 1997. Retrieved 1 Februar 2015.
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3. ↑ "Historical Events on 30th November". Historyorb.com. Retrieved 18 Mairch 2010.
4. ↑ 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
5. ↑ 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
6. ↑ Gulf War Coaleetion Forces (Latest available) bi kintra www.nationmaster.com at nationmaster.com [Error: unknown archive URL] (archived [Date missing])
7. ↑ Hersh, Seymour (2005). Chain of Command. Penguin Books. p. 181.
8. ↑ ^{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.
9. ↑ International Law Norms, Actors, Process, 3rd Edition
10. ↑ ^{a b} "Persian Gulf War". MSN Encarta. Archived frae the original on 1 November 2009. Retrieved 2 Apryle 2016.
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12. ↑ Nordeen&Isby P.66
13. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} "1991 Gulf War Information". cryan.com.
14. ↑ Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait; 1990 (Air War). Acig.org. Retrieved on 12 June 2011
15. ↑ Kenneth Michael Pollack-- Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948–1991. 2002. Page 573.
16. ↑ "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.
17. ↑ "Kuwait: missing people: a step in the right direction". Red Cross. Archived frae the original on 7 Mairch 2016. Retrieved 2 Apryle 2016.
18. ↑ "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.
19. ↑ 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)