US_Invasion_Of_Iraq

US Invasion Of Iraq When analyzing events in history, it is fairly easy to draw upon the different political perspectives when looking at the causes. A good example is to analyze the US intervention in Iraq during the invasion of Kuwait. The Persian Gulf War, as it became known, was launched on January 6, 1991, after international diplomatic efforts and sanctions had failed to force Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait by the January 15th deadline set by the united nations, after Kuwait was illegally invaded on August 2, 1990. The 31-nation military moved against Iraq, commanded by U.S. general H. Norman Schwarzkopf, included forces from the United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Britain, Syria, and France. Japan, Germany, and others aided the war effort financially. The war, code-named Desert Storm, began as a massive air strike carried out on key Iraqi military targets. Iraq launched scud missile attacks on Israel in an effort to bring them into the war, and weaken the side of the allies. The ground war started when Saddam Hussein ignored a February 23 U.S. deadline to begin moving out of Kuwait immediately. The short-lived ground assault only lasted until February 27 with the complete retreat of Iraqi forces from Kuwait. Iraq agreed iraq, war, united, nations, kuwait, threat, states, involvement, international, forces, february, countries, appears, viewed, surrounding, saudi, saddam, problem, perspective, out, military, launched, january, iraqi, involved, invasion, invade, interests, hussein, ground, effort, deadline, country, arabia, alleviate