d they can be equally as devastating. The U.S. Office of Technology Assessment once estimated that a small private plans, with 220 pounds of anthrax spores flying over Washington on a clear, windless night, could trail an invisible, odorless mist that would kill between 1 million and 3 million people (36). Hussein also, wanted to create a long lasting effect on the Arab nations by bombing Israel in an effort of provoking Israel to counter-attack. If Israel counter-attacked, then the balance of power in the ever feuding Middle East would shift and alienate the other Arab nations.The Military Strategic Concept used by the United States during the Gulf Crisis is Collective Military Security Strategy. Iraq’s: First Strike. Iraq’s first strike by the overwhelming and “...relentless and undisguised onslaught of military power” utilized through the element of surprise and great forces. The attack upon Kuwait has been described as an attack on everything at once from nowhere. Air raids bombed both civilian and military airports, Iraq had quickly eliminated its enemy by removing all hope of counter-attack.The United States and The United Nations created a joint Coalition of forces to combat Iraq in a large scale worldwide effort of combined military forces to end the fighting. With the end of the Cold War even the Soviet Union was on our side of the UN Security Council’s Resolution Number 678. Under Collective Military Strategy, the specific strategies used by the coalition forces were Containment and Flexible Response. The purpose of Desert Shield was containment, to deter Iraq and prevent full scale war. The United Nations demanded the immediate withdrawal of Iraq’s soldiers from Kuwait. The United States presented a strong naval presence in the gulf, and had the ground forces to support such a demand.Flexible Response is a strategy founded upon the principle of sequentially increasing military ...
