War On The Ground

In February, the coalition forces focused their attacks towards Iraq in Kuwait and southern Iraq. Troops from Saudia Arabia were headed to Kuwait and southern Iraq. Over the next four days, coalition forces encircled and defeated the Iraqis and liberated Kuwait but Unlike the Iran-Iraq War which went on for eight years, Iraq’s Elite Republican Guard swiftly defeated Kuwaiti forces, reaching Kuwait City in an hour. Iraq owed $80 million in foreign debt from its 1980-1988 war with Iran. On January 17, 1991, a massive U.S.-led air offensive hit Iraq’s air defenses, moving swiftly on to its communications networks, weapons plants, oil refineries and more.