Chapter 79: Summary of the War

In this war, US Secretary of State James ? Baker organized a coalition of 34 countries against Iraq: Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Honduras, Italy, Kuwait, Morocco, the Netherlands, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Korea, Spain, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Of the 660,000 troops in this war, 74 percent were U.S. troops. Many of the allied states were reluctant to participate. Some saw the war as an intra-Arab war, while others feared the intensification of American influence in Kuwait. In the end, many countries agreed to participate on preferential terms such as economic assistance and debt relief.

The Iraqi army suffered about 100,000 casualties (20,000 of which were killed), 86,000 prisoners, 324 aircraft, 1,247 tanks, 450 armored vehicles, 717 artillery pieces, 43 ships, and direct economic losses amounted to 80 billion Franklin.

The multinational force suffered 7,232 casualties, including 1,248 U.S. killed, 2,458 wounded, 238 non-combatant dead, and 4,978 non-combatant wounded. Other multinational forces lost 1,920 killed and 1,318 wounded. The U.S. military lost 654 aircraft (968 multinational forces), 85 tanks, and 20 ships.

Due to the existence of the Star and Moon mercenaries, the number of losses of the multinational force has increased geometrically, and the battle in the secret is not the opponent of the Star and Moon Organization at all, and the United States almost used super soldiers to eliminate the Star and Moon Organization, but now is not the time to be exposed, and it is still in the case of absolute superiority, there is no need to use super soldiers.

The multinational force suffered 4,232 casualties, including 148 US killed, 458 combat-wounded, 138 non-combat-dead, and 2,978 non-combat-wounded. Other multinational forces suffered 192 killed and 318 wounded. The U.S. military lost 56 planes (68 in the multinational force), 35 tanks, and 2 ships.

The above data is the data of historical losses, and the number of lost aircraft has increased by 10 times, which makes the US military want to cry.

The U.S. Congress calculated U.S. war spending at $171.1 billion. Others estimate it at $181 billion. The rest of the world paid about $123 billion: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries paid $56 billion, and Germany and Japan paid $21 billion. Approximately 25 per cent of Saudi Arabia's payments are made in the form of services, supplies and transportation to troops.

The U.S. military spends only 74 percent of all Allied forces, so the total global spending is certainly even higher. For example, Britain paid 7.1 billion for the war.

In order to speed up the transportation of the United States to the Gulf, Japan, Greece, Norway, Denmark and other major maritime powers have also provided large transport ships for the US military. According to data released by the U.S. Military Sealift Command, ships from these countries carry 46 percent of all U.S. shipments to the Gulf.

At the bews of the United States, more than a dozen countries agreed to provide cash and material assistance to the United States. Among them, Kuwait has provided the most aid, $15.974 billion in cash and $32 million worth of transport, $13.265 billion in cash and $3.575 billion in kind from Saudi Arabia, $3.875 billion in cash and $200 million in kind from the United Arab Emirates, $9.961 billion in cash and $780 million worth of equipment from Japan, $5.76 billion in cash and $800 million worth of supplies from Germany, and $329 million in cash and $57 million worth of supplies from the Republic of Korea.

Allies eventually provided the United States with $70 billion in cash and supplies, including $54 billion to the United States and the other to countries such as Egypt, Turkey, and Jordan. As a result, the United States itself will bear only 20 percent of the total combat expenses, 60 percent will be borne by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and other wealthy Gulf countries, and the remaining 20 percent will be borne by economically developed countries such as Japan and the Federal Republic of Germany.

The Gulf War changed the traditional mode of warfare and had a strong impact on the traditional concept of warfare that had been formed since World War II. Its biggest feature is that this is a high-tech war. The U.S.-led multinational forces generally use a variety of advanced technologies:

(1) Electronic warfare has an important impact on the course and outcome of the war, and the electromagnetic superiority of the multinational forces led by the United States will become the new commanding heights in the war, although it is sometimes interfered with by the jammers created by Luo Tiancheng, and the overall time occupies a short time;

(2) Air power played a decisive role. The Gulf War set a precedent for winning a war with air power as the main body, and in air raids, the use of a large number of precision-guided weapons improved the accuracy of air strikes and minimized civilian casualties.

(3) The combat airspace has expanded unprecedentedly, and the battlefield has developed in the direction of great depth and high three-dimensionality, and there is no obvious front and rear;

(4) High-tech weapons have greatly enhanced combat capability and enabled combat operations to develop at high speed, all-weather, and all-time domains.

To a certain extent, the Gulf War enhanced the international status of the United States, strengthened its ability and confidence in intervening in international affairs, and also boosted its ambition to dominate the world. During the Gulf War, the United States quickly established a powerful anti-Iraq coalition through various means, played the role of the leader of the alliance, and demonstrated its "leader" role in handling international affairs. It set aside the Soviet Union, ignored the suggestions and calls of many countries for a peaceful settlement of the Gulf crisis, and insisted on waging war, fully exposing its ambition to dominate and lead the world. It won the war at the cost of only 1,248 deaths, regained its military confidence, and to a certain extent got rid of the "Vietnam War syndrome" that had affected it for many years, and greatly increased its confidence in intervening in international affairs.

After the Gulf War, the United States has greatly increased its interference and involvement in global and regional affairs, such as its interference in regional affairs such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Somalia, and Haiti, as well as the implementation of NATO's eastward expansion, sanctions, and armed strikes against Iraq. The Gulf War accelerated the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of the bipolar pattern, which was objectively conducive to the development of the multipolar trend. The Soviet Union's performance in the Gulf crisis and war shows that it has ceased to exist in name only as a pole in a bipolar pattern, and that the former superpower can only let things unfold. To a certain extent, the United States fought both Iraq and the Soviet Union in the Gulf War.

Luo Tiancheng has actually faded out of the sight of the coalition forces in the follow-up war, all the missiles in his hands have been shot, and if he continues to fight, he can only fight with the coalition forces with bayonets, and there is no heavy weapon production equipment, and no one uses it after production, more than 1,200 people, and in the end, only more than 800 people remain, but these more than 800 people belong to the elite of the elite, and no one dares to despise them.

Saddam Hussein is not a person who crosses the river and dismantles bridges, if this war is not without the help of the Xingyue mercenaries, according to the offensive of the coalition forces, the losses of his troops are at least several times higher, and the elite troops cannot be preserved so well, and in the end, the anti-air turret of the coalition army is greatly deterred, it can be said that the Xingyue mercenaries in this battle have taken out all their belongings, which Saddam Hussein summed up by himself in the follow-up observations.

An incident happened during this period, in view of the tough attitude of the United States, Luo Tiancheng specially invited General Schwarzkopf of the United States to visit a secret place after the war, after the visit, General Schwarzkopf's face was bloodless, coupled with the tough posture of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Schwarzkopf remembered those behemoths, as long as it was the mark on it, he did not dare to force the mercenaries of Xingyue again, and he did not tell Iraq, and the matter was over.

In order to make up for the loss of the Xingyue Organization, Saddam Hussein exempted the Halfaya Oilfield from taxes and dividends for 5 years! and helped the Xingyue organization to create oil fields locally.

In fact, after many days of investigation, Saddam Hussein provided a large number of missiles and standard weapons that exceeded his own strength, and wanted Saddam to hand them over, but under Saddam's toughness, he had no choice but to give up, and he could only set the Xingyue Organization as an international terrorist organization, and he could no longer do it.

After this war, the Xingyue mercenaries became famous in the Arab region, and a large number of Iraqi people asked to join the Xingyu mercenaries, and Saddam Hussein also let it go, without restrictions, and even secretly contributed to the trouble.

In this battle, Saddam Hussein knew his feeling of being isolated by the whole world, and only the Xingyue organization was willing to help him in the case of being an enemy of the whole world, although the other party also had its own goals, but which organization, which group of countries did not fight for their own interests!

In just half a year, the members of the Star Moon Mercenary Group have rapidly increased from more than 800 to nearly 3,000!