Mason(Operation)

=Operation 2: __Operation Desert Storm__ =

Operation Desert storm which is also known as the First Gulf War, and the Persian Gulf war. The starting date of deploying troops to Saudi Arabia was sometime in 1991.

=Purpose =

The whole purpose of the invasion was to help protect Kuwait from an Iraqi invasion. Kuwait asked America to help them out with the Iraqi soldiers invading their land. Kuwait was very afraid that there was an Iraqi invasion coming. The reason Kuwait was afraid of an invasion coming was that Hussein accused them of overproducing oil and steeling oil from Iraqi Oil fields. This created huge problems between Iraq and Kuwait. The reason Hussein thought they were selling to much oil to foreign countries which was angering Hussein because he believed that foreign countries were their enemies no matter what they did.

=America's involvement and Help =

= = America invaded Kuwait to help protect Kuwait and other Oil producing countries surrounding it. President Bush encouraged other foreign countries to also help Kuwait protect themselves. Bush wanted to help Kuwait because they were a main supplier of oil to the United States of America. President Bush knew if we lost our oil connection with Kuwait gas prices and availability would be outrageous. I'm sure everyone in America would agree with him not wanting gas prizes to raise.

=Ariel attacks = America stuck to more of a Ariel Attack through this mission. They didn't want to waste ground troop lives. Planes and helicopters were a lot better option and a lot safer option. Iraq wasn't equipped to shoot down America's air vehicles. They would drop bombs on tanks and large group of soldiers. They would also send groups of missals and or SCUD missal.

= = =Why Iraq was angry = Iraq was angry because Kuwait was selling oil, in Iraq's eyes, too cheap. Iraq wanted Kuwait to over charge America a lot for oil so America could make Iraq rich. Iraq was in serious financial problem and wanted a way to get more money and they found a smaller and weaker army in Kuwait. Iraq was kind of like Kuwait's big brother and was picking on them.

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