Decisive Point Case Study

US forces and some of their allies, launched an attack on Iraq on March 20th because Saddam Hussein would not leave

The invasion began on March 20, 2003, when General Tommy Franks ordered the Army and the Marine Corps to cross the Iraq-Kuwait border. The Army’s 5th Corps, under the command of Lieutenant General William Scott Wallace, was tasked to be the main effort for the ground campaign. Assigned the western axis of advance, the Army’s 5th Corps—Third Infantry Division and 101st Airborne Division—would move west of the Euphrates River and attack Baghdad from the west; meanwhile, Marines from the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (IMEF) would move parallel east of the Euphrates along highway 1. Attached to the IMEF, the United Kingdom’s 1st Armored Division faced moderate resistance from Saddam’s Fedayeen in the fight for Basra City; however, with the

Prior to the August 2, 1990 invasion of Kuwait on the part of Iraq, the

When the war in Bahrain first started people didn't really know what happened. In April, Qatari troops occupied Fasht Al Dibal Island but withdrew in June after mediation by Saudi Arabia. As part of the Gulf Cooperation Council Bahrain participated in the Operation Desert Storm against Iraq.

Iraqi soldiers immediately started to kill Kuwaiti citizen, abusing the women and taking hostages. Some of the first hostages the Iraqi army took were the western expatriate workers when the Iraqis crossed the Kuwaiti border and taken back to Iraq. They used their tanks to destroy houses of Kuwaiti citizens who showed any type of resistance to the Iraqis or simply storm in their houses, take over and doing or taking whatever it was they wanted.

Iraq tried to convince Kuwait to dissolve the debt with Iraq. Kuwait declined and this because it would cause a rift between the two countries. (Fitzgerald) For the next year, they had tried to resolve the financial situation but not able to come up with an agreement. Next, Iraq started alleging that Kuwait was drilling in a diagonal manner and stealing the oil. Which meant Kuwait was stealing the oil from Iraq; Saddam Hussein decided to station around 100,000 troops on the border to make sure no one got in. (Fitzgerald)

The Persian Gulf War began in August of 1990 and lasted until President George H. W. Bush declared a ceasefire on February 28, 1991. This war was a result of Iraq invading Kuwait in order to gain control of the Persian Gulf and all trading posts in nearby port cities. Saddam Hussein, the president of Iraq, believed that invading and seizing control of Kuwait would give him strategical and economical advantages over the other nations in the region. Once Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion of Kuwait, President Bush and the leaders of other nations sent troops to prepare for a war to break out. The Persian Gulf War was a short, four month war between Iraq and the rest of the world for the freedom of Kuwait.

The main goals of the Desert Shield operation were the protection of the Saudi Arabia territory and providing the coordination of arrival of the main units and logistic support from the allies. Moreover, the Coalition knew that the Iraqi was extremely close to the Saudi oil fields. With these fields, the Iraqi could control the most part of the oil reserves in the world. Therefore, it is essential increase the coalition forces presence into that country. In that operation, it established a large support system along the main roads providing continuous supply of water, food, fuel, ammunition and other essentials for the success of operation. In middle of October 1990, President George Bush decided increase substantially the number of military

After numerous attempts to resolve the mounting tensions between the Iraqi and feuds between Kuwait then U.S President George H. Bush and his carefully assembled staff derived a plan that would ultimately prove to be one of the more thought of and a great plan. In this brief exert I will talk about the overview and outcome of air war aspect of the campaign. The Air Campaign Plan was derived from the Presidents objectives and a planning model developed and formed by the Air Staff’s deputy director. There were only 5 objectives and they were Isolate and incapacitate the Iraqi regime, Gain and maintain air supremacy to permit unhindered air operations, Destroy NBC warfare capability, render the Iraqi army and its mechanized equipment in Kuwait ineffective, causing its collapse and Eliminate Iraq’s offensive military capability by destroying major parts of key military production, infrastructure, and power projection capabilities. (https://es.rice.edu/projects/Poli378/gulf/gwtx)

As a result, Saudi Arabia and Egypt called on the United States and other western countries to intervene. On January 16, 1991, Operation Desert Storm began. A U.N.-authorized coalition force, as know as the Gulf War, pursued the conflict, from 34 nations led by the United States, in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait aspiring to be in control of a substantial portion of the oil production and reserve of the world, to cancel the large debt Iraq owned Kuwait, and to expand the Iraqi power in the in the region. After one hundred hour of ground combat, the Coalition forces forced the Iraqi armies out of Kuwait and On February 28, 1991, President Bush declared suspension of offensive combat and presented conditions for permanent cease-fire. Kuwait and Iraq suffered enormous

This group for tipping point started by the majority of the group loving aircraft. Dylan thought of the idea of starting an airshow. An airshow would be great because Dylan knows how to fly model airplanes. Kyran joined the group because of the idea of an airshow. Kyran barely knows how to fly a plane but could improve to help tip the epidemic. Kyran asked David to join because the group needed a third member. David would be able to help count the people coming to the airshow and work on analyzing the data. The social epidemic, an airshow needed to tip.

As soon as the invasion the happened, President Bush, as a leader, believed that helping Kuwait against Iraq was on behalf of the United State’s national interest. Kuwait is one of the most important export oil country and a huge amount of the United States’s oil comes from import. Once Iraq take over Kuwait and seize the major oil fields of Saudi Arabia and raise the oil price, American economic will face a heavy losses. However, oil was not the only reason. The most important reason for President Bush is that on the one hand, in his mind, helping Kuwait was a matter of principle: Help the good against the evil. On the other hand, U.S. military involve would improve America's international credibility, especially in this first major crisis

Pivotal advocacy team member Bridget Kromhout took some time out from speaking about distributed systems at last month’s Ricon to chat to Voxxed about her experiences as an early Docker adopter (before it was even really safe for use), following tech trends, and why “just rubbing” some containers on your problems won’t magically fix everything.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Saudi Arabia played a key supporting role to the United States in the Iran-Iraq War and the Persian Gulf War. Saudi forces participated in international coalitions to protect oil interests in the Persian Gulf and to monitor hostile forces. Additionally, Saudi forces contributed to small combat operations in the Persian Gulf War, flying over 3,000 air sorties and deploying six army brigades. The traditional threats that Saudi Arabia was used to evolved in the late 1990s to Islamic terrorists and unstable neighbors with the capability of employing weapons of mass destruction, such as Iraq and Iran.

Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion and occupation of neighboring Kuwait in early August 1990. Alarmed by these actions, fellow Arab powers such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt called on the United States and other Western nations to intervene. Hussein defied United Nations Security Council demands to withdraw from Kuwait by mid-January 1991 and the Persian Gulf War began with a massive U.S.-led air offensive known as Operation Desert Storm4. After 42 days of relentless attacks by the allied coalition in the air and on the ground, U.S. President George H.W. Bush declared a cease-fire on February 28; by that time, most Iraqi forces in Kuwait had either surrendered or run away. Though the Persian Gulf War was initially considered an unqualified success for the international coalition, simmering conflict in the troubled region led