Coalition forces quickly overwhelmed their Iraqi counterparts. The ground campaign began on 24 February 1991, following over a month of heavy air bombardment. On the Iraqi border, American-British-French forces were to sweep north into the desolate Iraqi desert and then hook towards Kuwait sweeping up the defending Iraqi division in that region.

The ground campaign was planned with Marines and the Arab nations on the Kuwaiti border to push north against the Iraqi forces in that region. The air campaign targeted ground vehicles along the Saudi-Kuwait-Iraq border striking Iraqi infrastructure in the capital of Baghdad. To prepare for a ground offensive against the heavily entrenched Iraqi military, the coalition commenced Operation Desert Storm on 17 January 1991. With the buildup of American troops in Saudi Arabia, a multinational coalition was formed to prepare for offensive operations against the Iraqi regime and to retake Kuwait.Д«y January 1991 the coalition had grown to include most NATO nations as well as a significant portion of the Arab states of the Middle East.

The operation saw an influx of American troops deployed to Saudi Arabia to defend the nation against an Iraqi invasion. Fear of further Iraqi escalation into Saudi Arabia prompted the United States to launch Operation Desert Shield. The Iraqi government quickly declared that Kuwait was the countryвЂ™s 19 th province. Within two short days resistance had ceased and the IraqiвЂ™s had complete control over Kuwait. The Iraqi government had complained of slant oil drilling into Iraqi oil fields by the KuwaitiвЂ™s and to recoup the alleged losses declared war on the small oil rich nation. On 2 August 1990 the might of the Iraqi army stormed across the desert, driving headlong towards their small Arab neighborвЂ™s capital of Kuwait City.

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