Why did a coalition of over 30 nations find it was necessary to go to war to help Kuwait after it was invaded by Iraq? How did the Coalition defeat the Iraqis'? Although the Coalition won there were many consequences to face. The causes of the war started with Saddam Hussein, then the Iraqi's economic condition, and the dispute over boundaries, and finally oil. When the Iraqi's invaded Kuwait a coalition was formed against them, which consisted of the use of many types of military strategies. When the coalition won there were casualties, the Gulf War Syndrome, and still some things to deal with in Kuwait.

Since the invasion of Kuwait caught the world by surprise the question in everybody's mind was - What were the reasons for the invasion? The first reason was Saddam Hussein. Saddam had two distinct characteristics: one, the determination to be remembered in history, two, and a certain vision of the future. Saddam wanted to have a unified Arab world with Baghdad as its center. Hussein also felt that after that after the fall of the Ottoman Empire there was an uneven distribution of wealth from oil re

Using these four types of strategy there were four phases to the overall strategy. The first phase was to use air power with logistic and raiding strategies. The second and third phase was combat and raiding strategies that would use standoff air power, close-in power, ground artillery and naval artillery. The fourth phase used a combat and persisting strategy, which was set out to remove Iraqi forces.

4. Raiding Strategy - Hit-and-Run attacks

The end of the war did have some consequences for the Coalition. The Security Council made strict demands for ending sanctions between the UN and Iraq. Iraq would have to accept liability for damages, destroy chemical and biological weapons, ballistic missiles, forego nuclear weapons programs, and accept international inspection to ensure the conditions were met. Iraq resisted and said its withdrawal from Kuwait was sufficient. The Kuwaiti country was covered in spilled oil pools, 730 burning oil wells, and thousands of land mines.

Kuwait was clearly outnumbered on the morning of August 2nd when 150,000 Iraqi troops headed for Kuwait City. The Iraqi's quickly took control of Kuwait City and very soon after they had control of the whole country. The Security Council immediately started an economic embargo on Iraq that stopped almost all trade with Iraq. On August 6th the United States announced its deployment of 400,000 military troops to Saudi Arabia. After this twelve members of the Arab League also voted to send troops. 200,000 addition troops were sent from Saudi Arabia, The United Kingdom, France, Kuwait, Egypt, Syria, Senegal, Niger, Morocco, Bangladesh, Pakistan, The United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain. Countries which contributed ships, air forces and medical units included Canada, Italy, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Czechoslovakia, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Poland, and South Korea. Turkey allowed uses of its air bases and Japan and Germany gave financial support.

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