Delta Force
Banned
The USAF and USN generally go for the radar and air defense sites in the opening wave of a military attack, and they do so with cruise missiles and anti-radiation missiles. You do not need to use an EMP (nuclear or a conventional EMP, which can be done with special bombs) in a limited war, especially because the Coalition had much more advanced equipment than Iraq. The Iraqis would not have been bothered too much by losing high tech systems because they were mostly an army centric power with centralized command and control anyways and older Soviet equipment that probably still used vacuum tubes (highly resistant to EMP compared to transistors). The US did however do limited EMP like attacks on the Iraqi power grid. Along with attacking energy infrastructure directly, the USAF also dropped bombs that used a modified form of chaff to cause short circuits on Iraqi power lines and make power transmission along the lines impossible until the strips were cleared.
If you tried to EMP Iraq you would end up destroying the power grid of a large amount of the Middle East and probably end up causing severe disruption to the grid in the southern USSR, India, and perhaps portions of Europe. A high altitude EMP by a few missiles can also be considered to be a precursor to a nuclear war (nuclear war was almost caused in 1995 when the Russians interpreted a NASA probe launch and stage separation as four missiles coming in to do a high altitude EMP attack). The EMP attack does not do too much to hardened military systems, but it can ionize the air enough to make radars much less effective, thus blinding radars from detecting further incoming missiles. The USSR would probably interpret such a nuclear launch as an attack by the US upon the USSR and end up causing nuclear war by accident, especially once a nuclear bomb actually exploded.
If you tried to EMP Iraq you would end up destroying the power grid of a large amount of the Middle East and probably end up causing severe disruption to the grid in the southern USSR, India, and perhaps portions of Europe. A high altitude EMP by a few missiles can also be considered to be a precursor to a nuclear war (nuclear war was almost caused in 1995 when the Russians interpreted a NASA probe launch and stage separation as four missiles coming in to do a high altitude EMP attack). The EMP attack does not do too much to hardened military systems, but it can ionize the air enough to make radars much less effective, thus blinding radars from detecting further incoming missiles. The USSR would probably interpret such a nuclear launch as an attack by the US upon the USSR and end up causing nuclear war by accident, especially once a nuclear bomb actually exploded.