e militaryaction was that there were American hostages held by the Iraqis after theinvasion of Kuwait for a couple of months. 1CNN The Gulf War (Video) (Atlanta, CNN News, 75 min., 1991) Iraq would lose in the war with the Coalition because "their forceswere not as well trained as the Coalition forces, their weapons weretechnologically inferior, they had no air support and the Coalition forceswere well-prepared for moves against them."4 The Iraqi army is mainlycomposed of draftees, who are not well- trained or equipped. Only the fewRepublican Guard units that were the elite of the Iraqi army would be anymatch for the Coalition because the Coalition forces were composed ofmainly professional, well-trained volunteers. Also the Iraqi weapons wereinferior compared to the Americans. The Iraqis had weapons mainly from thelate 1970s to the early 1980s while the Allies had the most- advancedweaponry available including the AWACS system, the Stealth bomber and thePatriot missile. With this, they quickly achieved air and naval superiorityover Iraq and Kuwait. The Iraqis had few planes that were of any threat tothe Coalition and most of these never faced combat for unknown reasons.This made the Allies job much easier. The Coalition forces were also well-prepared as to the enemies battle tactics as they were Soviet ones whichthe Americans had studied for the possibility of an invasion of Europe. 4AP Press Toronto Star (January 18, 1991) A14 A Gulf War involving Iraq was unavoidable and in this war Iraq wasdefeated. The Iraqis were becoming a major military power in the MiddleEast and therefore a danger to the stability of the whole region. TheUnited States and other industrialized Western nations could not afford theloss of oil from the region and therefore they were very willing to ensurethat they continued to receive the oil. The U.N. and U.S. both wanted Iraqto leave but realized that Iraq did not wish to leave and had no intentiono...
