The Gulf War 1991 | Line of Fire | Full Documentary
On August 3rd 1990, Iraq, under its ferocious dictator Saddam Hussein, invaded Kuwait, its oil-rich neighbour. Not long out of a war with Iran, Iraq badly under-estimated the reaction of the watching world to its unprovoked attack; in particular, the believed that the US would not dare to become involved.
A coalition against Iraq was formed and it struck back with awesome power in January 1991. Iraq’s air defence system and the country’s infra-structure were taken apart by air attacks that utilised the very latest warfare technology – and it was technology as much as anything else that brought Iraq’s armed forces to its knees. Saddam had promised the ‘mother of all battles’ - words that came to haunt him and his army as they were caught in the open on the bloody road to Basra.
Line Of Fire Series:
New perspectives on history’s great battles
About The Series
Even at this great distance, the stories behind the battles that shaped the history of the world continue to captivate people everywhere. It is not difficult to see why. The sheer scale of the fighting on military history’s great battlefields boggles the imagination and tales of courage on those same bloody fields make the heart beat a little faster. To think of the fate of nations being decided by a single stroke of military genius or by sheer ineptitude or by the vagaries of fortune tingles the spine…to imagine ourselves faced with the same dangers as those confronted by soldiers throughout the years makes the blood run cold.
All of these things go some way to explaining why military history holds such an enduring place in the popular imagination – and the time has come to tell the stories of these great episodes from the past in a completely new way.
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