Nations didn't take chances with oil or anything else during the cold war which might risk a confrontation with the then USSR (Soviet Union). With the USSR dissolved in 1990 (the Berlin Wall came down in 1989) the US (and the UN) were free to make any demands they wanted to. When Hussain took Kuwait in 1990, that was an oil region. With no one to stop the US/UN (read Soviet Union) the US/UN was free to make those demands: "Withdraw from Kuwait...or else!" Desert Shield commenced in 1990 (military buildup to be used if and when necessary to eject Iraq from Kuwait). Desert Storm commenced on or about 15 January 1991 to formerly eject Iraq from Kuwait; this was sucessfully accomplished within approximately 45 days. DS was successfully concluded in February 1991.
After Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1991, the US developed a plan to force the Iraqi armies out of this small oil producing country. The Operation Desert Storm was a US led coalition that used US airpower, then ground troops to end the Iraqi occupation. The Iraqi's set many oil wells on fire as they retreated and some of these fires lasted for weeks and weeks. Casualties in this operation were not large and the war ended rather quickly.
Saddam Hussein.
Saddam Hussein
The Iraqi forces were expelled from Kuwait. George Bush announced a suspension of fighting. Saddam Hussein agreed to withdraw his forces from Kuwait but announced to his subjects that he had won the war. After 6 weeks of operation desert storm (the intense aerial bombardment of military targets and communications centres in Iraq and Kuwait) the end came surprisingly swiftly, after only 100 hours of the ground war launched in Iraq and Kuwait.
Kuwait was free from Iraqi occupation.
because they were out numbered
Destroyed the oil wells.
they wanted to go to war with them then bomb the whole city afterwards
The disagreement that eventually turned into the Persian gulf war was the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. When the Iraqi troops would not leave Kuwait, the Persian gulf war began with military force under the Reagan administration.
Coalition aircraft may have when striking ground targets. Ground troops simply ejected Iraqi forces from Kuwait...which was the mission.
the USA sent troops to kuwait for more watch a vidio on the greatest tank battles.
They set fire to about 700 oil wells when leaving Kuwait
During the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, 259 Iraqi soldiers were killed and 361 were wounded. Also, and estimated 39 Iraqi aircraft were shot down, and 120 tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed. In addition, 4 Iraqi ships were sunk. Overall, Iraqi losses were light.
The US was the primary military force in the coalition of forces to repel Iraqi invaders from Kuwait. Of 956,600 troops, 700,000 were US troops.
The immediate result of Operation Desert Storm, the American-led coalition's offensive (in January/February 1991) against Iraqi troops occupying Kuwait, was the liberation of Kuwait and the acquisition of military positions within Iraq itself. Additional skirmishing, air- and missile-attacks, and diplomacy would continue, but "Desert Storm" achieved decisive immediate results in its freeing of Kuwait from the Iraqi presence.
Nations didn't take chances with oil or anything else during the cold war which might risk a confrontation with the then USSR (Soviet Union). With the USSR dissolved in 1990 (the Berlin Wall came down in 1989) the US (and the UN) were free to make any demands they wanted to. When Hussain took Kuwait in 1990, that was an oil region. With no one to stop the US/UN (read Soviet Union) the US/UN was free to make those demands: "Withdraw from Kuwait...or else!" Desert Shield commenced in 1990 (military buildup to be used if and when necessary to eject Iraq from Kuwait). Desert Storm commenced on or about 15 January 1991 to formerly eject Iraq from Kuwait; this was sucessfully accomplished within approximately 45 days. DS was successfully concluded in February 1991.
Saddam Hussein