After the Coalition

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Victoria, William L. Cleveland, late of Simon Fraser University, Martin Bunton, University of (2013). A History of the Modern Middle East (5thed.). Boulder, CO: Westview Press. p.450. ISBN 978-0-8133-4833-9. Last paragraph: "On 16 January 1991 the air war against Iraq began {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) Blum, William (1995). Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II. Common Courage Press. ISBN 978-1-56751-052-2 . Retrieved 4 December 2005.

Saudi Arabia expelled Yemeni workers after Yemen supported Saddam during the Gulf War. [308] Coalition bombing of Iraq's civilian infrastructure According to Kanan Makiya, "For the Iraqi people, the cost of enforcing the will of the United Nations has been grotesque." [265] General Schwarzkopf talked about "a very, very large number of dead in these units, a very, very large number indeed." [266] The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Les Aspin, estimated that "at least 65,000 Iraqi soldiers were killed". [266] A figure was supported by Israeli sources who speak of "one to two hundred thousand Iraqi casualties." Most of the killing "took place during the ground war. Fleeing soldiers were bombed with a device known as a 'fuel-air explosive.'" [266] Coalition Coalition troops killed by country That has led many Iraqis to support Shia leader al-Sadr, a self-declared Iraqi nationalist, whose forces have been accused of carrying out some of the worst violence in the post-2003 Iraqi civil war. Most of the coalition states used various names for their operations and the war's operational phases. These are sometimes incorrectly used as the conflict's overall name, especially the US Desert Storm:Sciolino, Elaine (1991). The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein's Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 161- 162. ISBN 978-0-471-54299-5.

By 1988, at the end of the Iran–Iraq war, the Iraqi Army was the world's fourth largest army, consisting of 955,000 standing soldiers and 650,000 paramilitary forces in the Popular Army. According to John Childs and André Corvisier, a low estimate shows the Iraqi Army capable of fielding 4,500 tanks, 484 combat aircraft and 232 combat helicopters. [65] According to Michael Knights, a high estimate shows the Iraqi Army capable of fielding one million troops and 850,000 reservists, 5,500 tanks, 3,000 artillery pieces, 700 combat aircraft and helicopters; it held 53 divisions, 20 special-forces brigades, and several regional militias, and had a strong air defense. [66] Kuwaiti Armed Forces M-84 main battle tanksGulf War Veterans' Medically Unexplained Illnesses". U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs . Retrieved 25 February 2014. Report to Congress on the Conduct of the Persian Gulf War, Chapter 6". Archived from the original on 31 August 2019 . Retrieved 18 August 2021.