Significant1990 – 1991 · 1 year

Operation Desert Shield

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Kuwait · Saudi Arabia

Estimated casualties

100Ksingle estimate · no range published

Military buildup phase of Gulf War defending Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

Belligerents3

United States
Coalition
Iraq

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Operation Desert Shield (1990 – 1991). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/operation-desert-shield · Sources & methodology