Gulf War

The United States formed the core of the Operation Desert Storm forces but additional contributions came from Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Argentina, Greece, Australia, New Zealand, and Egypt among others.
Counting Iraq, at least 20 nations were involved.

Operation Desert Storm

Every living organism on this earth would get destroyed in the cataclysmic events of a Nuclear War (WW3) which would leave the scorched earths land left in radiation and devastation:

Interestingly, this is linked to most religions and cultures that believe that is the day the earth ends or and some people may say it is apocalypse day.

Only that it was a quick and clean victory and elated the American people that had only known defeat (Vietnam) for so many years. DS finally united (Vietnam had divided the nation) the American people again (According to the press and President Bush Sr...e.g. his speech during the parades for returning US servicemembers). DS also allowed, FOR THE FIRST TIME, the combat testing of the M1 Abrams MBT (Main Battle Tank), some Stealth aircraft, cruise missiles, and associated smart weapons.

Oil production in Iraq dropped

the theme of the coaliton of the gulf war is about Leslie tryng to win osma heart

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There is no single "war in the Middle East". There are numerous Middle East Conflicts. All of them ended or will end when one of three criteria are met:

(1) One side is victorious and has completely eliminated all opposition. An example of this is the Turkish War of Independence where the Ottoman Elite were completely eradicated by the Young Turks and the Greek Forces were evicted from Anatolia.

(2) One side is removed from conflict by a third party. An example of this is the Iran-Iraq War. The fighting was ended by ceasefire in 1988 without a true victor, but the overthrow of the Iraqi State by the USA in 2003 allowed the new Iraqi State to make peace with Iran and re-establish diplomatic ties.

(3) Both sides find a mutually acceptable compromise. An example of this is the Taif Agreement that ended the Lebanese Civil War of 1975-1991 that allowed the Lebanese Maronites, Sunnis, Shiites, and other minorities to resolve many of their differences. All of the parties accepted the agreement.

During the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) General Colin Powell was stationed at Ft. Carson (1980); Assistant planner during Operation Urgent Fury (invasion of Grenada in 1983); Planner in strikes in Libya in 1986, and commander of V Corps in Europe; later C & C at Ft McPerson.

Military threats were drastically reduced because of the end of the Gulf War in the early 1990s. This left the United States, at that time, in no direct conflicts.

1. Iran-Iraq War; US and Western Powers protected/maintained waterways thru-out the Persian Gulf. 2. Operation Desert Storm; remove Iraq from Kuwait. 3. Operation Iraqi Freedom; remove Saddam from power in Iraq.

George W. Bush want the oil , and Saddam wants to kill his people .

The related Australian War Memorial link below lists the various wars in which Australians have been involved, and the casualties in each conflict. You will need to read through the articles at each of the links to find the numbers killed.

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.