In the early morning hours of 2 August 1990 Iraq sent an invasion force consisting of 120,000 troops and 2000 tanks into the neighboring country of Kuwait (Military Analysis Network, “Operation Desert Shield”). The invasion force quickly overwhelmed the small country to the south, thus allowing Iraq to declare, in less that a week, that Kuwait had become Iraq’s nineteenth province. The United Nations quickly responded, passing a series of resolutions condemning the invasion, called for an immediate …showed first 75 words of 1163 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1163 total…to sustain and carry out the war. The Iraqi’s appeared to use no military strategic military concepts other than insurgency. The invasion of Kuwait was an outright attempt to overthrow the constitutional government of Kuwait through the use of armed conflict. Work Cited 1. Military Analysis Network, “Operation Desert Shield” 2. Comptons Encyclopedia 3. William M. Arkin, “The Fog of War”, The Washington Post 4. Jim Marshal, “The Survival of a Regime”, “The Mistakes of the Gulf War”