MIDDLE EAST (GULF) WAR

Gulf (Middle East) War- in Brief

The Persian Gulf war in the Middle East was a war fought betweeen Iraq and the coalition forces of 35 nations. The war had begun on the 2nd of August 1990 and concluded on the 28th of February 1991. United States was the leader of the coalition forces which helped liberate Kuwait from Iraq. The war began due to an invasion of Kuwait by the Iraqi forces on the 2nd of August, 1990. This was met by prompt UN economic sanctions against the Middle Eastern nation of Iraq. Thanks to armed intervention by the international forces which started in January 1991, the coaliltion forces achieved critical triumph. This helped drive out the Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait with minimal casualities. Most of the ground and the air battle was limited to Kuwait, Iraq and the Saudi Arabian border areas. Iraq targetted Israel and Saudi Arabia and hurled missles at them.

Miscellaneous

As the negotiations between the Kuwait and Iraq halted in the month of July 1990, massive troop buildup was arranged by Iraq on the borders of Kuwait. Even though Saddam Hussein had promised that he would not enter into a war with Kuwait unless and until one more negotiations are held, still the war was initiated from the side of Iraq by the invasion of Kuwait as early as the beginning of August. It is considered that the border disagreement of Iraq with Kuwait was the main cause for such misadventure by Iraqi forces.

Onset of the war