Operation Desert Shield Analysis

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Throughout The Gulf War, the United States Army’s Air Defense Artillery (ADA) Patriot missile system successfully engaged 80 percent of the Scud missiles that fired into Saudi Arabia and 50 percent of the Scuds that fired into Israel (Hamilton, 2009). Patriot defended a number of assets throughout the Middle East. Had they not been present, the coalition forces’ casualty numbers would have been exponentially higher. Patriots intended purpose for placement in the Middle East during Operation Desert Shield was for use as an anti-ballistic missile counter offensive. Operation Desert Shield, a prequel to Operation Desert Storm; consisted of the coalition force that made up the combined defenses within the Middle East as a response to Saddam Hussein’s …show more content…
military. The sequence of events that brought about this change have forever affected the direction of development and engineering within the U.S. military’s air defense. Prior to the start of Desert Shield, Iraq was at war with Iran. Kuwait and United Arab Emirates (UAE) gave financial support to Saddam Hussein for his campaign against Iran. Once the conflict was over, the Iraqi government found itself in debt to Kuwait. Saddam Hussein mandated being free of all debts from UAE and Kuwait since he protected them from Iran. Kuwait refused to pardon his debts, so Saddam Hussein began accusing Kuwait of stealing oil on the Iraq and Kuwait border. Saddam Hussein also accused the United States and Israel of encouraging lowered prices on oil, which lessened revenue for the countries (Lange 2016). This dispute escalated to Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, taking Kuwait by force instead of by negotiation. At the time of the invasion, Iraq’s military force was the fourth largest military force in the world, which was a great concern for neighboring countries. With the

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