Gulf War

There is certainly a better claim for the Persian Gulf War of 1991 to be a moral war than many other wars, considering that the UN Coalition waged that war in order to liberate the occupied State of Kuwait.

If any was used, it wasn't the US. Prior to the end of the cold war in '90 (if it hadn't had ended the US certainly wouldn't have moved military forces into Saudi Arabia in 1990 during Operation Desert Shield); US policy was never to use Bio wpns, use chemical wpns only in retaliation; and the US "reserved" the right for FIRST STRIKE with nukes.

Organization of United States Air Force Units in the Gulf War happened in 1991.

Yes its true American Express do business with a Billionaire Yemeni man Called Shaher Abdulhak who provide his bank The International Bank of Yemen with their credit card services.

This man played a key role in illicit weapons sales to the Iraqi dictatorship, according to a CIA report "The Procurement of Conventional Military Goods in Breach of UN Sanctions".

The report states that "Yemen has assisted the Iraqi armed forces through a Yemeni businessman called Shaher Abid Al Haqq (Shaher Abdulhak, the spelling of the name varies.)."

Reference is given to a meeting held 19 February 2001, were the Yemeni side was ready to export military materials from Yemen and Ethiopia to Iraq. These parts were specifically drawn from the stocks of the Yemeni armed forces, air force, army aviation and included armor, trucks, and weapons.

Shaher Abdulhak is also known for being the father of Farouk Abdulhak who is the only suspect of the murder of a Norwegian student Martine Vik Magnussen in London March 2008.

Farouk Abdulhak fled the UK hours after Martines death,and is believed to be living in Yemen where it is strongly suspected that he is being sheltered by his wealthy father.

Which Gulf War? 1. Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 2. Operation Desert Storm Jan/Feb '91 3. Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003-

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"Rakkasan" is, when loosely translated from Japanese to English; Paratrooper or Parachute. The 187th Airborne REGIMENT fought originally as part of the 11th Airborne Division during WW2 in the Pacific.

Intercepted Japanese radio transmissions during WW2 indicated that "Rakkasans" were paratroopers; the men of the 187th Regiment liked the name, and adapted it as their "nickname."

When the 187th Regiment deployed to Vietnam, they were part of the 101st Airborne Division. It was the 187th that took the brunt of the fight for Hamburger Hill in 1969.

the 187th Airborne Regt. Combat Team was relieved from the 11th Airborne Division in 1950 and deployed to Korea. In 1951 there was a 3 day pass prize for the best patch submitted by members of the 187th (in Beppu, Japan) That is how the patch of the 187th Airborne RCT originated.

I might add that I did NOT win the 3 day pass for best shoulder patch design for the 187th Airborne RCT............

Operation Desert Storm only lasted from January to Febuary 1991. There was very little time for any international crisis. By the time most "Reactions" were making their presence known, the campaign was successfully concluded.

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The military world and the civilian world all have boss's (or supervisors); it's part having a job. Even a "self-employed" person has a boss...his "customers." Possibly that (or those) types of "professionals" were the "headaches" being referred to.

Because of their superior technology.

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DS was a transitioning time between conventional warfare and hi-tech warfare. Aviation assets conducted most of the fighting, destroying armored fighting vehicles by the hundreds...and often at safe distances. This left little left for the ground units to engage. When it was all over, within approximately 45 days or so, the mission had been accomplished; Iraq was successfully removed from the nation of Kuwait.

The British wished to assist the Kuwaiti people and serve alongside the US forces.

The U.S. can be seen as a leader because they mostly provide 90% bulk of power in the Gulf War.

There were no alliances; the USSR monitored (supported) Iraq and the US (monitored/supported) Iran during the war (1980-1988).

The 1991 Gulf War was authorized and directed under a UNSC mandate at ejecting Iraqi forces from Kuwait which they illegally invaded to seize it's gold and oil fields there. The UNSC did not authorized a mandate at extending the war onto Baghdad and order regime change aka the removal of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. That's the principal reason why U.S. and Coalition forces didn't continue onto Baghdad, plus we didn't have a viable exit plan to get out of Iraq once you accepted the responsibility of governing the country after removing Saddam from power. There is an old saying goes that, "If you break it, you own it".

Also many feared if we do that, the international coalition that the U.S. put up would collapse and that removing Saddam would created an anarchy in the region.

Also after the 1991 Gulf War ceasefire, the Kurds in the north and Shiites in the south of Iraq rebelled against Saddam Hussein's rule and hope to stage a coup in overthrowing Saddam from power. They also expected help from the Coalition since Bush Senior encouraged the Iraqis to take the matters into their own hands and overthrow Saddam Hussein. However no support from the Coalition came to help the rebels and as a result, the rebellion was brutally crushed by Iraq's elite Republican Guard while U.S. and Coalition forces present on Iraqi soil after the ceasefire sit back and did nothing. Even when the USAF was flying overhead over Iraq seeing the Iraqi helicopters did strafing runs on Kurdish and Shiite refugees fleeing from the uprising but did not intervene to help them. One of the reasons why the U.S. and Coalition did not aid the rebels because again, the UNSC mission was to eject Iraq from Kuwait, not toppling Saddam Hussein in Baghdad.

But as the news reached to the world into what happened in the uprising, in April of 1991, the UNSC then authorized a safe haven to Kurdish refugees who were stuck in the mountains of northern Iraq and the Coalition launched Operation Provide Comfort to help the refugees fleeing from the uprising. For the first time in history, a no-fly zone in northern Iraq was established by the U.S. and Coalition forces to protect the Kurds from air attacks by the Iraqi Air Force.

A year later, a no-fly zone in southern Iraq was established to protect the Shiites from air attacks by the Iraqi Air Force in which they continued to slaugheter them during the remainder of 1991 and in the middle of 1992.

During the last 12 years of the Gulf War ceasefire, U.S. and Coalition forces as well as the UN continued to reengage hostilties against Iraq, something that most of the mass media ignored:

U.S. and Coalition aircraft continue to bomb Iraq in the no-fly zones because they were provoked by Iraqi radar locks and missile attacks. attacks which they are not allowed to do.

In June 1993, President Clinton ordered a cruise missile attack on Baghdad because Saddam's agents was trying to assassinate former President Bush Senior during his visit to Kuwait in mid April for revenge in his role of driving Iraq from Kuwait in the 1991 Gulf War.

Saddam massed over 80,000 Iraqi troops into the Kuwaiti border in October 1994 in attempt to reinvade Kuwait because of UN sanctions on Iraq which was still in place after the 1991 Gulff War.

Clinton bombed Iraq again in September 1996 because Saddam was attempting to launch an Iraqi military offensive into restricted areas of the Kurdish villages in northern Iraq.

and so on.

During the last 12 years, Saddam also throwed out UN inspectors from trying to get to his WMDs program. This is the reasons why the U.S. launched an invasion of Iraq in 2003 because of Saddam's violation of that terms from the ceasefire of the 1991 war.

I was barely a toddler at the time, so there was very good reason for me to stay out of the Gulf War.

Iran was only involved in the First Persian Gulf War also known as the Iran-Iraq War and that war was resolved by armistice after a stalemate. Iran was not part of the Second Persian Gulf War (from 1990-1991) or the Third Persian Gulf War (from 2003-2011).

The first gas turbine in the Gulf started working in the 1970s

how did the first gulf war end