Operation Desert Shield was the international response to the Aug 1990 Iraqi invasion and annexation of Kuwait.
When the Iraqi government refused to adhere to UN sanctions a 34 nation coalition force was organized to expel the Iraqis from Kuwait. Many people wondered why we didn’t continue on to Baghdad after the war but understand that the coalition was fragile to start with. Our Arab allies probably would not have continued to fight with us if we had done more than just expel the Iraqis out of Kuwait.
The US led coalition started to arrive in Saudi Arabia in August 1990. The aerial bombardment of Iraq and Kuwait began on Janruary 17th 1991 and the ground war began in February 1991 and lasted for 100 hours. Our objective was to liberate Kuwait and that is exactly what we did. Our Desert Storm military ring customers had to sit in the desert in tents for months before the war was over. Summertime temperatures would frequently get up into the 130′s and there is no shade in the desert. The dust and extreme temperatures wreaked havoc on our equipment which caused a lot of uneccessary confusion.
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