some interesting facts.

Operation desert shield/storm happened on august 2, 1990. At the beginning of the war the name of it was called desert shield. On January 16, 1991 the first phase of desert storm had begun. Operation Desert Storm is also known as the First Gulf war. Kuwait was a part of Iraq until 1923 which is one reason that Iraq considers Kuwait still apart of Iraq. The first US combat forces didn’t return until March 8, 1991. Ground war didn’t begin until February 23, 1991. The cost of the war was about 60 billion dollars. The majority of the wars costs were covered by Saudi Arabia. Towards the end of the war the United States gave relief supply to Kurdish refugees in Turkey and northern Iraq.