Gulf War

Battle of the Bridges

Battle of the Dasman Palace

Operation Desert Shield

Battle of Ad-Dawrah

Battle of Qurah

Battle of Umm al Maradim

Battle of Bubiyan

Battle of Khafji

Battle of 73 Easting

Battle of Al Busayyah

Battle of Phase Line Bullet

Battle of Medina Ridge

Battle of Wadi Al-Batin

Battle of Jalibah

Battle of Norfolk

Battle of Rumalia

Operation Desert Storm

Operation Granby

Opération Daguet

Operation FRICTION

Operation Habitat

Operation Simoom

The UN Coalition led by the United States won the war.

Iraq lost the war.

Kuwait suffered billions of dollars of damage and lost oil revenues from when the Iraqi soldiers started burning the oil wells.

Desert Storm-Eject Iraq from the nation of Kuwait Iraqi Freedom-Remove Saddam from power

Desert Shield was designed as an operation to protect Saudi Arabia from a possible Iraqi incursion, either by air or by land in late 1990 and early 1991. As Saudi Arabia supported Kuwaiti independence and was hosting UN Coalition troops, there was the strong possibility that Iraq's superior military could overwhelm Saudi defenses.

Saddam Hussein (1937-2006) was a soldier in the army of Iraq and later a politician in the Ba'ath ruling party. He rose to the position of vice-chairman of the Revolutionary Command, and later president (actually dictator) of his country.

He led his country to war against neighboring Iran in a protracted conflict from 1980 to 1988. After invading Kuwait in 1990, he maintained his power despite the defeat of his army by US and coalition forces. His support for terrorism and his research into nuclear and other weapons brought him into conflict with the United States, who had originally supported him in the 1970's.

He was deposed by the US invasion in 2003. He was tried, convicted, and hanged for criminal abuses against the people of Iraq, most notably the Kurds but including members of his own party.

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Desert Shield (1990) was a BUILDING UP of military forces; ultimately, for Desert Storm, which occurred in January of 1991, coalition forces reached over 900,000 people.

Until Operation Desert Storm (Jan-Feb 1991), the eight year war between Iran and Iraq was called the Persian Gulf War, and the US was also involved. Therefore, which Persian Gulf War are you referring to?

Iraq wanted to control Kuwait's oil and take advantage of how close they were to the persain gulf

Right now Israel is not in any active war. Although two of it's close neighbors - Lebanon and Syria never reached peace or normalized relations ever with Israel you could say Israel is still at war with them de jure. But the truth is that since the 80's First Lebanon War, there were no significant border incidents between Israel and Syria that could even be a hint of an aggressive action.

As for Lebanon - the war in 2006 - The Second Lebanon War was not fought between the governments of the two countries. The Lebanese government actually was very quiet about the hot action going on in their country because that was Israel fought against Hezbollah - a terrorist, militant organisation influenced by Iran and frankly that terrorist organisation holds the Lebanese government by the junk and it can take it down any time. That's why it seems that this war was with "Lebanon" but actually the Lebanese government wasn't really involved so to say the fighting was Israeli-Lebanese is not very accurate.

Israel also has a de jure war with the Palestinian Militant Group Hamas which controls the Gaza Strip. This has flared up into open conflict in the winter of 2008-2009 and the autumn of 2012.

President Bush Sr.

During the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), an Iraqi aircraft launched a missile at the US Navy frigate USS Stark, killing close to 30 US Sailors, while it was patrolling in the Persian Gulf.

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Even though there was little concern about Kuwait itself - when one corrupt dictatorship takes over another corrupt dictatorship, little has been lost - the concern was that if Saddam can take over Kuwait and get away with it, what other countries would he try to take over next? How far did his ambitions extend? It is worth noting that at the time, Saddam said that the reason why he invaded Kuwait was to liberate Palestine, which means that he was building an empire with which eventually to attack Israel, and that would have been a much more destructive conflict. And even that would not necessarily have been the end of his conquests.

In a more practical sense, controlling Kuwait, and potentially other oil-producing countries in the Middle East, would have enabled Saddam to exert influence on the major countries dependent on Middle Eastern oil.

Saddam Hussein's political party was the Republican Party.

President Bush

George W. Bush wanted to finish "Daddy's war" and look good to those pulling the strings behind the power in Washington.

There was no real reason to finish Saddam Hussein off, he was a strongman in the Middle East and the United States and other powers understood that style of leadership and as long as things remained "stable" in the Middle East all was good.

"W" did it by lying about the dangers which Saddam posed to stability, particularly about weapons of mass destruction (nukes). He lied to the people of the US and the world. We bought his lies and invaded.

This is not to say Saddam was a good guy, he wasn't, but there are a lot of leaders just like him in the Middle East and we can work with them because they keep things good enough for the United States to pursue their interests in the world.

Sorry for giving such a cynical answer, but it is the truth.

George Bush did not declare war on Afghanistan as he can't; only congress has that power. War in Afghanistan was never declared by an act of congress. That being said, the current military action in Afghanistan began on October 7, 2001.

to protect their oil interests. (apex)

There was no noticable rate increase, other than was normal, during the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988 in the Persian Gulf.

The invading Persians at the battles of Plataea and Mycale.

In 1949, the Soviet Union demonstrated that it had acquired the atomic bomb. This was likely due to technology liberated from Germany and the documents provided by spies and sympathizers in the US and England. The second major shock was the final victory of Mao Zedong and the Communists in China, which established it as the largest Communist regime in the world, and posed a threat to the interests of the US in Asia and the Pacific.

Which gulf war? There were three of them in the 20th and 21st centuries.