Operation Desert Shield: The United States And The Kuwait Gulf War

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During May of 1990 a war loomed in the Middle East when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein declared that Kuwait’s overproduction of oil was “economic warfare”. Hussein accused Kuwait of stealing from an Iraq oil field, and threatened military action. On August 2nd Hussein made good of his promise, and 100,000 Iraqi troops invaded, initiating the Gulf War. The United States’s involvement came only five days after the Iraqi invasion, with Operation Desert Shield. Following calls for help from Arab powers to protect oil-rich Kuwait, the United States sent troops into Saudi Arabia to help protect the small country from Hussien. Tensions rose and war became inevitable when Iraq declared Kuwait its 19th province on August 28th. The United States’ congress

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