The Persian Gulf: How To Win A War In 100 Hours

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Published 2024-07-24
In 1991 the Iraqi army was the fourth largest in the world. This made their defeat in 100 hours by the coalition forces even more humiliating. Superior equipment and resources allowed them to completely destroy Saddam Hussein's troops in Operation Desert Storm.

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All Comments (21)
  • My Brother and I was there. USMC. He was 2nd Marine Division and I was 1st Marine Division. šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡øšŸ¦…šŸŒŽāš“ļø
  • The air war is a masterpiece of planning a d strategy. Absolutely brilliant.
  • @darkLORDofpain
    General Schwarzkopf was the last great generals the US Military truly had....this guy was a military strategist like it was no one's business...
  • @darbyohara
    Have overwhelming technological, naval, air, and logistic superiority - thatā€™s how
  • As a Kuwaiti that watches your channel regularly I thank you For informing the public about this war we suffered through ā¤ā¤ā¤
  • You posted the same video two months ago with a different title... "100-Hour War: Why Operation Desert Storm Was So Successful."
  • We didnā€™t care about those people , we cared that saddam was going to start demanding gold for oil and not dollars
  • @carlosmafia
    It's incredible when history programmes talk about the potential futures, which have now become our past.
  • @jeffgossard1451
    22nd of February Marines were already in Kuwait, crossed the 1st minefield belt Taskforce Grizzly. Yep I was there.
  • They love saying "Iraq had the 4 largest army in the world". They just don't elaborate on that. Iraq had a large army on paper, most of it was not really effective as a battle ready army, and most of the rest was of low quality, being led by poor officers. Only a few years prior Iraq had essentially just lost a war against Iran, which was just coming from the chaos of revolution, and was completely disorganized. Beating a Iraq was not a great accomplishment, and gave the wrong message to the US elites, which made them feel invincible, and ready to spread war all over the world
  • 43 days. And not only US. There were 34 other countries fighting Saddam.
  • @oneshotme
    I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
  • @ryanweaver962
    When we consider streams and pools and enablers and realities of toolsā€¦ placements and groupings of enablement. The understandings begin to shift in feedback loops and orderingā€¦
  • @markduret9538
    It's funny hearing the conclusion after all these years
  • @50STONEhW
    3rd Armored Division VII CORPS A Company 2nd Battalion 67th Armor Regiment Operation Desert Shield Desert Storm January 1991 to July 1991. We were one of the units selected to stay behind and begin the first phases of border security operations due to the fact that Saddam Hussein and some of his military personnel and their equipment were still at large and considered a possible threat to try and cross back into Kuwait but we were waiting with M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks at different checkpoints and performing mounted patrols also. ā€œWeā€™re REDCON1, Time Now, How Copy, Over!!ā€
  • Truth be known, we lost the war in 100 hours . Nobody wins in the end .
  • Had you edited out the last couple minutes this would've seemed like a pretty recent program. Lazy mistake.