Persian Gulf War · 2013. 11. 19. · Battle of Medina Ridge February 27, 1991 • US lost 1 killed...
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Deadline: January 15, 1991
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Operation Desert Shield
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Troops (Persian Gulf War) • United States
• Saudi Arabia
• Turkey
• United Kindgom
• Egypt
• Syria
• France
• Kuwait
• Pakistan
• Canada
• Spain
• Bangladesh
• Morocco
• United Arab Emirates
• Oman
• Niger
• Afghanistan
• Bahrain
• Czechoslovakia
• Netherlands
• Honduras
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Military, Medical, and Other Assistance
• Afghanistan
• Argentina
• Australia
• Belgium
• Canada
• Czechoslovakia
• Denmark
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Italy
• Japan
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Poland
• Portugal
• Qatar
• Romania
• Senegal
• South Korea
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Operation Desert Storm
General “Stormin’” Norman Schwarzkopf
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What Do You Bomb in War?
Bombing Targets
• Anti-Aircraft Facilities
• Power Grids
• Communication Systems
• Fuel Supplies
• Transportation Systems
Colonel
“Mad John”
Warden
“Destroy enemy but not
the people”
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Operation Instant Thunder
January 17, 1991
• 109,876 sorties in 43 days
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Air Dominance
• First night of air war: 700 planes in the air
• 1 was shot down
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Live War Reporting
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Iraqi Air Force Needed Shelter
140 Iraqi MiGs (from Soviet Union)
Iranian Assistance and Asylum
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Circle of Error
World War II
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Circle of Error
Persian Gulf
6 feet
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Saddam’s Reaction
1. Lit oil fires in Kuwait.
2. Dumped 4 million barrels of oil into the Persian Gulf.
3. Launched SCUD missiles into Israel.
• 39 fired, 74 killed
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Dhahran Scud Attack
February 25
28 killed and 99 wounded
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Ground War (February 23 – 27)
690,000 Troops (540,000 American)
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Concern: Iraqi Tanks and Positions
• over 1,500 Iraqi tanks destroyed in this manner
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First Day of Ground War
• Over 8,000 Iraqi soldiers surrendered
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Persian Gulf War Battles
• Battle of Khafi
• Battle of 73 Easting
• Battle of Norfolk
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Battle of Medina Ridge
February 27, 1991
• US lost 1 killed and 4 Abrams hit
• Iraq lost 186 tanks and 127 APCs
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Iraqi
Withdrawal
February 26
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Kuwaiti Oil Fires
“This is what hell must look like.” -Schwarzkopf
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Iraqi Quitting or Regrouping?
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Easy Target?
“Sheep in a Barrel”
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Highway of Death
February 26 - 27, 1991
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• About 3,000 Iraqis killed (Saddam’s Number)
• Between 1,800 - 2,000 vehicles destroyed
• Used napalm, phosphorous, and incendiary bombs
– Outlawed by 1977 Geneva protocols
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Highway of Death
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Iraqi Soldier
Napalm Death
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Ground War = 100 Hours
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Why did the US NOT invade Iraq?
“Whose life would be on my hands as the commander-in-chief because I, unilaterally,
went beyond the international law, went beyond the stated mission, and said we're
going to show our macho? We're going into Baghdad. We're going to be an occupying
power — America in an Arab land — with no allies at our side. It would have been
disastrous.“
-President George H. W. Bush (1998)
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“And the question in my mind is, how
many additional American causalities
is Saddam worth? And the answer is,
not that damn many. So, I think we
got it right, both when we decided to
expel him from Kuwait, but also when
the President made the decision that
we’d achieved our objectives and were
not going to get bogged down in the
problems of trying to take over and
govern Iraq.”
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Secretary of
Defense
Dick
Cheney
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Victory!
U.S.A!
U.S.A!