The First Gulf War 1990 - 1991

[Louis]

A Iraqi Type 69 II tank captured, 1991.

 

[steve]

These three British soldiers with gas mask in a hotel lobby in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, feb. 1991.
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They don’t look anything like their portraits .....

 

[Louis]

Cleaning of lost images by Photobucket.

 

[Louis]

On the Basra-Kuwait Highway near Kuwait City after the retreat of Iraqi forces during Operation Desert Storm, looks in the background are some British AFVs.

 

[Louis]

M1 & M1A1 Abrams at the start of the operation Desert Storm.

 

[mTk]

"Mother of all Battles" indeed!

 

[Bulletpoint]

Beginning of the end of the American century.

 

[Badger73]

Beginning of the end of the American century.

One does wonder . . .

 

[Nort]

One does wonder . . .

No question in my mind. The apex of Pax Americana was the mid-50's. We have been in decline ever since. The pace of decline is accelerating with each passing year.

 

[Louis]

Three French soldiers from the Foreign Legion in the Saudi desert, wear full chemical warfare equipment during a training session during the war on Oct 1990.

 

[mTk]

God that looks hot, and not in a cool way!

 

[Gnarly]

Reminds me of some kind of evil WW1 nurse re-envisioned in say Wolfenstein or something...

 

[Redwolf]

Isn't "the first gulf war" the Iran-Iraq war?

 

[mTk]

Well, it was for them I s'pose.

 

[Louis]

Isn't "the first gulf war" the Iran-Iraq war?

So says the original image: "Gulf War, Oct 26, 1990".-

 

[Louis]

A US soldier stands atop of a destroyed Iraqi T-55 while the oil fields of Kuwait burn behind him, northern Kuwait, early 1991.

 

[Louis]

Great hole! Repair crews inspect the hold that was ripped open in the hull of the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LPH-10). She hit an Iraqi mine on Feb18, 1991, while serving as a mine-clearing platform in the northern Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm.

 

[Otosan]

Beginning of the end of the American century.

Hardly.

 

[Nort]

The Pax Americana is definitely in the decline and headed for its demise.

I just hope it holds on for another 35 or 40 years.