Here is the premise - instead of going for Kuwait, he attacked Iran. How would the US respond? Would he be successful this time around - in history, Saddam attacked Iran multiple times without success - but would his attack in the 1980's be successful?
Here is the premise - instead of going for Kuwait, he attacked Iran. How would the US respond? Would he be successful this time around - in history, Saddam attacked Iran multiple times without success - but would his attack in the 1980's be successful?
I assume you mean instead of invading Kuwait in 1990, Saddam invades Iran a second time?Here is the premise - instead of going for Kuwait, he attacked Iran. How would the US respond?
He did, for 8 years. Kuwait was a side effect of his Iranian invasion!Here is the premise - instead of going for Kuwait, he attacked Iran. How would the US respond? Would he be successful this time around - in history, Saddam attacked Iran multiple times without success - but would his attack in the 1980's be successful?
Here is the premise - instead of going for Kuwait, he attacked Iran. How would the US respond? Would he be successful this time around - in history, Saddam attacked Iran multiple times without success - but would his attack in the 1980's be successful?
Given this didn't happen 2 year earlier when Iraq was fighting Iran. It's not going to happen this time around .Iraq collapses 20 years earlier. Sunnis and Shiites start whaling on each other...only this time
how not to fight a war? Iran ended up using mass human wave attacks that accomplished absolutely nothing. Iraq responded to them pretty well, with fortified lines and dug in weapons... which was a great idea against Iran, but completely wrong when facing the allies in Kuwait. And the attacks on neutral shipping in the Gulf ended up bringing in the USN, which led to the devastation of Iran's navy...This is a larger board question, but how much did the Iran/Iraq war inform modern conflict?
how not to fight a war? Iran ended up using mass human wave attacks that accomplished absolutely nothing. Iraq responded to them pretty well, with fortified lines and dug in weapons... which was a great idea against Iran, but completely wrong when facing the allies in Kuwait. And the attacks on neutral shipping in the Gulf ended up bringing in the USN, which led to the devastation of Iran's navy...
More so due to Iraqi incompetence than anything else despite outnumbering the Iranians 3 to 1 and an overwhelming number of heavy equipment,Iraq almost lost. Any half way competent force would have destroyed Iran.Considering the dire Iranian material situation post revolution, the fact that the Iranian army still managed to stalemate Iraq is decent.
AIUI, Iraqi incompetence is a big chunk of the reason that Iran was able to drive them out. Having done so though, they might have done better to look for heavy weapons out on the international market; by the end of the war, the human wave attacks were being launched at Iraqi defenses inside Iraq, and all they accomplished was to rack up huge casualties...The only reason why Iran did human wave attacks was because they had almost no tanks with which they could penetrate the Iraq lines. As well as having a inferior amount of artillery.
Considering the dire Iranian material situation post revolution, the fact that the Iranian army still managed to stalemate Iraq is decent.
how not to fight a war? Iran ended up using mass human wave attacks that accomplished absolutely nothing. Iraq responded to them pretty well, with fortified lines and dug in weapons... which was a great idea against Iran, but completely wrong when facing the allies in Kuwait. And the attacks on neutral shipping in the Gulf ended up bringing in the USN, which led to the devastation of Iran's navy...
despite outnumbering the Iranians 3 to 1
That Iran, with an estimated 6.2 million men fit for military service out of a population of 45.2 million, could be winning a war of attrition against Iraq, whose 15.5 million population includes only 2.03 million men fit for duty, is hardly surprising.
That's fit for military service. I'm talking about the troop totals .
That's fit for military service. I'm talking about the troop totals .