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Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on global politics of the gulf wars of 1991 and 2003.
Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on global politics of the gulf wars of 1991 and 2003. In 1990 the capture of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein not only strengthened his power to challenge Saudi Arab, a long-time ally of United States but also enabled him to dominate in the Middle East oil (“Persian Gulf Wars” n.d.). Following this, till November the United Nations (UN) Security Council persistently insisted Iraq withdraw its authority from Kuwait unconditionally by 15 January 1991 (“Persian Gulf Wars” n.d.). In the meantime, around 500,000 men of ground, air, and naval forces were collectively prepared primarily from the US, Saudi Arabia, Great Britain, Egypt, Syria, and France to combat an Iraqi army of around 540,000 fighters (“Persian Gulf Wars” n.d.).
On the expiry of the deadline, the world witnessed an instant action, Operation Desert Storm, of the multinational coalition under the supervision of US General H. Norman Schwarzkopf (“Persian Gulf Wars” n.d.). Within the next 24 hours, the military target of Iraq and Kuwait was attacked by conventional weapons as well as modern weaponry like laser-guided bombs and cruise missiles (“Persian Gulf Wars” n.d.). Iraq’s command and control centers were rendered inoperative, communication links between Baghdad and the army in the field were broken besides seizing Iraq’s infantry (“Persian Gulf Wars” n.d.). Among the Iraqi aircraft, some were blasted, some met bombings in shelters while the rest fled away to Iran (“Persian Gulf Wars” n.d.). Iraq used “Scud Missiles’’ on Saudi Arabia and Israel. The U.S promptly countered the attack with “Patriot” antimissile Missiles and caused a lot of damage to Iraq’s warheads (“Persian Gulf Wars” n.d.).
This time Iraq had no alternative but retreat, as it is military and civilian casualties were mounting (“Persian Gulf Wars” n.d.). In the process, it put forward a series of conditional offers mediated by the Soviet Union which were outright rejected by the U.S lead coalition forces (“Persian Gulf Wars” n.d.). .
