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Once a staple of 1990s action/warfare folklore, the 1991 Persian Gulf War seems to have faded from recent memory over these past twenty years, becoming forgotten and overshadowed by more deadlier conflicts, like the Bosnian Genocide, Rwandan Genocide, Darfur Genocide, the 2001 Afghanistan War and 2003 Iraq War.

Although the 1991 Persian Gulf War lasted for several months, however the actual ground combat by coalition forces in the war lasted around one hundred hours, with the prior air bombing campaign lasting for several weeks before that.

All in all, around 2,000 coalition forces were killed (mainly by accidents and friendy fire), and around thirty thousand Iraqi soldiers were killed.

Compared to more recent military and humanitarian conflicts (1990s Eastern European, Northern African and Eastern African genocides, 2001 Afghanistan War, 2003 Iraq War, etc.) the 1991 Persian Gulf War seems relatively tame.

How could it have gone different in a way that both the ground and air campaign was much more longer and deadlier? Earliest chance for a POD is ca. August 1990 C.E.
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