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In the last months of 1990, the United States participated in the defense of Saudi Arabia in a deployment known as Operation Desert Shield. Over 500,000 American troops were placed in Saudi Arabia in case of an Iraqi attack on the Saudis. The UN condemned Iraq and helped form a coalition to fight Saddam militarily.
On January 16, 1991, President George H. W. Bush announced the start of what would be called Operation Desert Storm—a military operation to expel occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait, which Iraq had invaded and annexed months earlier. For weeks, a U.S.-led coalition of two dozen nations had positioned more than 900,000 troops in the region, most stationed on the Saudi-Iraq border. A U.N.-declared deadline for withdrawal passed on January 15, with no action from Iraq, so coalition forces began a five-week bombardment of Iraqi command and control targets from air and sea. Despite widespread fears that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein might order the use of chemical weapons, a ground invasion followed in February. Coalition forces swiftly drove Iraq from Kuwait, advancing into Iraq, and reaching a cease-fire within 100 hours—controversially leaving Saddam Hussein in power. While coalition casualties were in the hundreds, Iraqi losses numbered in the tens of thousands.
1. A destroyed Iraqi tank rests near a series of oil-well fires during the Gulf War, on March 9, 1991, in northern Kuwait.
2. French soldiers from the Foreign Legion Infantry regiment in the Saudi desert near Hafr al-Batin, wear full chemical warfare equipment during a training session during the Gulf War on October 26, 1990.
3. Responding to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, troops of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division deploy across the Saudi desert on November 4, 1990, during preparations prior to the Gulf War.
4. Cazenovia College students Amy Acker, of Rochester, left, and Sandra Ceplo, of Afton, comfort a tearful Megan Murray, of Mechanicville, center, while placing yellow bows and ribbons on campus in Cazenovia, New York, on January 15, 1991. Scores of students, many with loved ones serving in the Persian Gulf decorated buildings, trees and bushes with ribbon in honor and support of U.S. troops.
5. U.S. President George H. W. Bush adjusts paperwork in the Oval Office of the White House on January 16, 1991 in Washington following his statement concerning the U.S. attack of Iraq. The president said, “The world could wait no longer,” for U.S. action.
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