Fifty‐one casualties (81 per cent) suffered an average of nine wounds (range 1–45) due to fragmentation weapons, and 12 casualties sustained bullet wounds. All wounds were explored following the established principles of war surgery. The extremities were involved in 48 patients (76 per cent)...
More quotes from the 1991 Gulf War.Casualties of the 1991 Gulf War A quick look at some of the casualties that both sides suffered during the 1991 Gulf War. These numbers come from a variety of sources. Many human rights groups claimed a much higher numbers of Iraqi were killed in action...
Any discussion of the 1991 war in the Persian Gulf must include one final note. While the land war component of Desert Storm may have looked effortless to some, it did come at a price in American lives. Casualties may have been light, but they did occur and the sacrifices of those soldi...
The Gulf War of 1991 heralded a new type of warfare that was characterised by astonishing speed and high technology with remarkably low numbers of casualties amongst the coalition forces. Just under a million coalition personnel were deployed to the Gulf region to face a variety of threats from ...
The Iran-Iraq war is one of the most important, but least well known events in the recent history of the Middle East. It was no small conflict, lasting eight years, with casualties estimated to be between 150,000 to 340,000 Iraqis and 450,000 to 730,000 Iranians killed in the conflic...
televised war with heavy casualties. Bush thought that Vietnam had also proven other lessons. He insisted that the United States and its coalition partners must use overwhelming military force that would produce decisive results. The president did a masterly job of building public support for his ...
Iraqi Kurdish Revolt of 1991 No-Fly Zone War(1991-2003) The Third Persian Gulf War(2003-Present)--AKA "The Iraq War" CAUSES OF CONFLICT: There are three basic causes to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. First, Iraq had long considered Kuwait to be a part of Iraq. This claim led...
Stacey Dawson can't forget Feb. 25, 1991.Dawson, 52, then a soldier in the Army Reserve, had just...Erdley, Debra
Post-war years have seen further quantum improvements in the battlefield logistics arena with the fielding of the Army’s Palletized Load System (PLS). Likewise, the tragedy of friendly fire casualties continues to be addressed through evolving programs like the vehicle-based Battlefield Combat Ident...
About 697,000 US troopswere deployed to the Persian Gulf region, with382 in-theater casualties. Timeline August 2, 1990 -Iraq invades Kuwait. Reportedly,Iraqi leader Saddam Husseindecided to invade the small, oil-rich nation in order to pay off debts incurred during Iraq’s eight-year war wi...