Gulf War

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Armchair Team Credits:

[Redacted-one]

"Getting rid of Saddam would result in a costly and lengthy occupation." As we found out 12 years later that was so true.

[davidsyverson]

"Mother of all battles" to "Father of all ass whoopins"

[larryalvares]

Saddam stole the Gardner art

Those South Park references will never cease to amuse me

[TurtleChad]

The Gulf war was like teaming up with 8 friends to take on an extremely easy computer enemy in command and conquer.

[rsookchand]

Love how they keep the South Park style of Saddam

[THUMPER]

My late grandfather served in Vietnam as a medic/phycologist and was discharged as a specialist. He later went on to serve in Operation Desert Storm and Shield at the rank of Captain. By the time the war on terror started he was too old to reenlist even though he wanted to. He always talked about how he didn’t like war, but he knew that the soldiers needed somebody to look out for them and he wanted to be that guy.

[ThomFoolery]

This is like Total War when you easily could’ve auto-resolved but you misclicked so you just go full out.

[Warriorbob-impy]

You know you fucked up when both the US and the Soviet Union condemn you.

[Dankcommander]

Clicked on this faster than the American advance into kuwait

[kronocul]

The one dislike is from Saddam Hussein beyond the grave

[awesomehpt]

Did anyone get a hole in one during the golf war?

[Marylandbrony]

An alumni of my high school, Reid Wiseman participated in thr post-gulf war bombing campaigns and ended up becoming an astronaut.

[DarthKieduss]

Thirty seconds in and you got South Park references. Bravo sir.

[saadhero]

As a Kuwaiti, I thank you for this video.
It's always scary to know that Kuwait was taken away from us and am quite thankful for all the countries that assisted us.

[stephensands]

It’s so easy to forget that Iraq’s army was formidable, well-equipped, and full of experienced, well-trained soldiers (many of whom were veterans of the Iran-Iraq war, a near peer conflict for the Iraqis). It was expected that there would be significant coalition casualties, and that the war would be a tough fight. We look back in hindsight and think to ourselves “wow, what an easy war against a weak enemy” because of how the war went, and I think that really sells the military genius of the U.S. and the coalition short., ”

The war was made to *look easy* by excellent planning, tricky tactics, and teamwork on the coalition side. The reality was that coordinating the efforts of 42 countries and 900k troops speaking a variety of languages and with different equipment, training levels, and tactics to pull off a coordinated, combined arms operation was nothing short of brilliance. If you think doing so was easy, look at Russia’s performance during the early days of the Ukraine war. They struggled to perform any combined arms operations with a single military force that all spoke the same language and were part of the same country’s military force. That’s what Desert Storm *could* have looked like, but-for the masterful efforts of Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkopf

[outofturn]

7:45 stealing that armchair was an outrage

[merveileuxdushimeshema]

I like the fact that he gives us how long the ad is. I can skip it all😂😂.

[atlantiswolf]

The bit at the end mentioning the fires burning in Kuwait gives me real "We did it Patrick, we saved the city!" Energy. Fun little anecdote about the war, I remember hearing somewhere, that at some point, American Bombers took off from an Air Base on the East Coast, flew all the way to Iraq without landing, dropped their payload, and flew all the way back to their home base, without once touching the ground, only refueling while in Mid Air. Theres no strategic reason to do this, America did it to prove one simple thing, that it could.

[indianajones]

To expand on the ending, HW Bush had called on the Iraqi military to stage a coup against Saddam Hussein’s regime and did not intend on a popular uprising as the results would be devastating, which was what happened in the 1991 Iraqi Uprisings.

[MarqBarq]

Desert Shield / Desert Storm vet here. Good video. The Iraqi soldiers surrendered in such masses we couldn’t process them fast enough when the ground war really got started.