Cost Of The Golf War

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less than 12% of the total US cost and less than half what Saudi Arabia and Kuwait paid.


Why is the cost of the Gulf War to the US and how the US paid for the
war, interesting? •Along with the large scale engagement of international forces (the US had over 500,000 troops while non-US
Coalition forces were roughly 160,000 or roughly 24% of all forces), the large international contributions to defer the cost of the war for the US deployment provides an indication of how deep international support for that war was, at least amoung those countries wealthy enough to provide the contributions.

•In the end, the war cost the US only $7 billion, less than 12% of what the war might have cost the US. Could the US have prosecuted the war so quickly and forcefully without strong international support? This is an economic as well as a political question. Did the US have the political will to fight such a war without the substantial international support? Given the current ...

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time.

There was little opposition to the Iraqi invasion of Iran by the Gulf
States and by the Developed World. Was this a mistake? Even though the Iranian Government was despised in the US and elsewhere, should the principle of national sovereignty been upheld? Ironically, by not
upholding the principle of sovereignty, the world ends up with two
unprincipled regimes. Iraq invades another country, Kuwait. Iran,
feeling conspired against, supports terrorist groups.

The Iraqi Government is culpable for its action but there are larger
lessons that the US and the rest of the world can learn from the Gulf
War. One lesson is to watch carefully those countries with ...

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