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As a percent of the total federal budget and GDP, military spending on the post-9/11 wars never got to what it was during the Cold War or even WWII. All of GWOT was conducted with the US military as-is. They didn't even need to implement conscription. So tell me, aside from the human cost, how exactly was Iraq costly?
@@2x2is22 Fighting ISIS across the globe, dealing with the Syrian civil war, and dealing with the humanitarian crises, like the mass refuge migrations, that arose from both of those things which continues to plague the US and Europe today: all of which directly sprung from the fall of the Iraqi state. Pretty expensive if you ask me.
@@2x2is22i dont know where you got your information but a quick google shows 8 billion obligated to post 9-11 war vs 4 billion after adjustment for inflation for WW2
My late grandfather served in Vietnam as a medic/phycologist and was discharged as a specialist. He later went on to serve in Operation Desert Storm and Shield at the rank of Captain. By the time the war on terror started he was too old to reenlist even though he wanted to. He always talked about how he didn’t like war, but he knew that the soldiers needed somebody to look out for them and he wanted to be that guy.
"The soldier doesn't fight for some niche political idea postered at home. He fights for the comrades and family he knows depends on it." -- some quote I found in a forgotten Battle of Kursk book
I'm a bit surprised they wouldn't direct commission a medic at that point or something. (I'm not a veteran and know little about the culture.) I guess they'd take a senator's crackhead son who had done nothing with his life over a prior from two wars' worth of combat; go figure. Hey, if your grandfather were still alive he'd probably have an easier time getting commissioned now than twenty years ago. Anyway enough. May he rest in peace.
When I was little I thought the Gulf War was fought over golf. Then I thought it happened in the Gulf of Mexico. Then the Iraq War happened and I unfortunately got a crash course in geopolitics and nothing has gone right ever since.
I am sure you are hardly the only person to notice that. You are merely the only person to say you appreciate the courtesy, then go out of your way to ruin it either for us or for him.
As a Kuwaiti, I thank you for this video. It's always scary to know that Kuwait was taken away from us and am quite thankful for all the countries that assisted us.
I'm glad you were assisted, though keep in mind it was probably due to oil exports. Other countries sometimes get invaded and are not helped, especially not by such an overwhelming amount.
@joesomebody3365 that's sort of the way all assistance works though. Seems rather reductive to even mention when the commenter is obviously just showing his goodwill
It’s so easy to forget that Iraq’s army was formidable, well-equipped, and full of experienced, well-trained soldiers (many of whom were veterans of the Iran-Iraq war, a near peer conflict for the Iraqis). It was expected that there would be significant coalition casualties, and that the war would be a tough fight. We look back in hindsight and think to ourselves “wow, what an easy war against a weak enemy” because of how the war went, and I think that really sells the military genius of the U.S. and the coalition short. ,” The war was made to *look easy* by excellent planning, tricky tactics, and teamwork on the coalition side. The reality was that coordinating the efforts of 42 countries and 900k troops speaking a variety of languages and with different equipment, training levels, and tactics to pull off a coordinated, combined arms operation was nothing short of brilliance. If you think doing so was easy, look at Russia’s performance during the early days of the Ukraine war. They struggled to perform any combined arms operations with a single military force that all spoke the same language and were part of the same country’s military force. That’s what Desert Storm *could* have looked like, but-for the masterful efforts of Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkopf
Iraq had a massive army of conscripts held together by brutal discipline and a few well-trained veterans. It had plenty of operational problems and failures left over from the war against Iran, which they didn't have time to fix. Iran was in the middle of a Stalin-like purge when Iraq invaded, and even towards the end of the war the terrain and lack of armor really hurt the Iranian armed forces. The Iraqi military was vastly inflated and had issues all the way down, from outdated weapons to poor training to poor logistics to interservice rivalries that rivaled the Imperial Japanese for how bad it got at times.
@@shadiafifi54 yes to all of that. Serious issues in their military. The coalition forces weren’t perfect either, but much better and much more professional than the Iraqis. But even the Republican Guard units, which were much better trained, got bamboozled and steamrolled by the coalition forces.
Even tho the Russians performed so badly and still doing so but to their credit at the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine they only had 150-190k troops while Zelenzsky claimed they had 1 million standing force and 800k of them serving in the front unlike the coalition who were 42 countries and 1 million forces..iraqis didn’t get any support like Ukraine and were also poorly trained and exhausted by the Iran-iraq war. So it’s not comparable at all
To expand on the ending, HW Bush had called on the Iraqi military to stage a coup against Saddam Hussein’s regime and did not intend on a popular uprising as the results would be devastating, which was what happened in the 1991 Iraqi Uprisings.
Saddam had the elite republican guards on his side recruited from tribes loyals to him and they still had hundreds of T-72 tanks, the decimated army was in no position to stage a coup
@howiehall4622to be entirely fair to the senior bush, he did not want to intervene inside Iraq whatsoever. He was fine decimating and expelling Iraq from kuwait, but he made it pretty clear that an american invasion or support within Iraq would be harmful to relations with the Arab coalition.
My States Battleship the USS Wisconsin thought in the Gulf war if I remember correctly. They may be considered obsolete. But those guns must of been hell for the Iraq when she was firing her broadside from the coast.
Desert Shield / Desert Storm vet here. Good video. The Iraqi soldiers surrendered in such masses we couldn’t process them fast enough when the ground war really got started.
The bit at the end mentioning the fires burning in Kuwait gives me real "We did it Patrick, we saved the city!" Energy. Fun little anecdote about the war, I remember hearing somewhere, that at some point, American Bombers took off from an Air Base on the East Coast, flew all the way to Iraq without landing, dropped their payload, and flew all the way back to their home base, without once touching the ground, only refueling while in Mid Air. Theres no strategic reason to do this, America did it to prove one simple thing, that it could.
You know, even if the golf war ended, there was still things going on and Iraq throughout the late 90s and early 2000s, the second Gulf War being one of the situations Also known as the Iraq war
@@immortalobelisk6302 Cool man the british have a great sense of humour I had a chuckle when they colonised my nation and stole 40 trillion dollars worth from the area
You know? I've been watching g for 8 years. You have such a beautiful channel. I only wish I could help with your cause in educating the next generations as you have educated me and my kids. May your thirst for concise education and passion for history never fail you. Thanks, Griffin, for all your years of being MY armchair historian.
Reminded of the late, great American stand-up, Bill Hicks, who used to comment that there was no such thing as the Gulf War, because a war is when two armies are fighting 😁
Funny thing is the media really hyped up the Republican Guard. My father who guarded POWs during the war said they had plenty of Republican Guard prisoners. He also thinks we should’ve just toppled Saddam’s regime there and then.
@@ConquerousAzeezthe government did Lie about the war. Bush lied. But doesn't change the fact he risked his life for our family, our God and our nation
My ancestor Floriano Peixoto, who was a commander of the Brazilian army fought in that war to depose Solano. He later became president after toppling the empire!
My uncle was a marine who participated in Desert Storm. I was only a little kid at the time but I remember him later telling us about how he had managed to get an entire squad of Iraqi soldiers to surrender from a bunker just by offering them the jelly beans we had sent him for Easter. Seeing how hungry they were, he kept his word. He was never right after he came back. For real he was a different person. Something he saw out there...
In collage I actually learned about another tragedy regarding the highway of death, in that due to the sheer amount of depleted uranium rounds that were fired for a short time after the entire field was radioactive to the point that a journalist reporting on the highway soon after the battle got radiation poisoning.
I was 11 during the Gulf War came into effect and watched it unfold at home on the TV with my Grandparents. I was though there for Op Jacana and Op Telic. Regardless of what is said today by some I was proud and honoured to stand beside my brothers of the US forces on both those tours. 🇬🇧
During the Gulf War, more than 200,000 Palestinians fled Kuwait during the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait due to harassment and intimidation by Iraqi security forces, in addition to getting fired from work by Iraqi authority figures in Kuwait. After the Gulf War, the Kuwaiti authorities forcibly pressured nearly 200,000 Palestinians to leave Kuwait in 1991. Kuwait's policy, which led to this exodus, was a response to alignment of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and PLO with Saddam Hussein.
I have been watching the videos of the evolution of military uniforms and I would like to contribute to the channel by kindly suggesting that you could try it with the evolution of Spanish uniforms since it is a country in Europe that often tends to be underestimated but has an extensive history as well.
I am honestly shocked by how much I did not know about the Gulf War. Never knew about Iraq's debt to Kuwait, the fact they Actually invaded Saudi Arabia, and the tank battles...
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Hi
Love the vids my chair man and all the team with you
Hey Griffin can you do a Hürtgen forest animated history video.
Hey, the 100% off doesn't work, they are still asking for a credit card
@@Omsk_War_Criminal *-THE GREAT TRIAL HAS BEGUN-*
"Getting rid of Saddam would result in a costly and lengthy occupation." As we found out 12 years later that was so true.
As a percent of the total federal budget and GDP, military spending on the post-9/11 wars never got to what it was during the Cold War or even WWII. All of GWOT was conducted with the US military as-is. They didn't even need to implement conscription.
So tell me, aside from the human cost, how exactly was Iraq costly?
@@2x2is22 Compared to spending nothing on no occupation, very
@@2x2is22 Fighting ISIS across the globe, dealing with the Syrian civil war, and dealing with the humanitarian crises, like the mass refuge migrations, that arose from both of those things which continues to plague the US and Europe today: all of which directly sprung from the fall of the Iraqi state. Pretty expensive if you ask me.
@@2x2is2230 trillion in added national debt since 1991 seems costly to me idk
@@2x2is22i dont know where you got your information but a quick google shows 8 billion obligated to post 9-11 war vs 4 billion after adjustment for inflation for WW2
This is like Total War when you easily could’ve auto-resolved but you misclicked so you just go full out.
See there's the difference.
Saddam was more of a by the numbers autoresolve kind of general while America always goes Real Time.
My late grandfather served in Vietnam as a medic/phycologist and was discharged as a specialist. He later went on to serve in Operation Desert Storm and Shield at the rank of Captain. By the time the war on terror started he was too old to reenlist even though he wanted to. He always talked about how he didn’t like war, but he knew that the soldiers needed somebody to look out for them and he wanted to be that guy.
God bless him.
"The soldier doesn't fight for some niche political idea postered at home. He fights for the comrades and family he knows depends on it."
-- some quote I found in a forgotten Battle of Kursk book
I'm a bit surprised they wouldn't direct commission a medic at that point or something. (I'm not a veteran and know little about the culture.) I guess they'd take a senator's crackhead son who had done nothing with his life over a prior from two wars' worth of combat; go figure. Hey, if your grandfather were still alive he'd probably have an easier time getting commissioned now than twenty years ago. Anyway enough. May he rest in peace.
Good man.
what does he think of the Vietnam and 2003 Iraq war now politically?
The Gulf war was like teaming up with 8 friends to take on an extremely easy computer enemy in command and conquer.
Why are you everywhere
Easy enemy?Iraq was the fourth in the world in military strength with chemical weapons and was close to manufacturing nuclear weapons...
@@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDIKinda easy to forget they were so powerful considering how they got curb stomped so hard 😂
@@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI then its even more embarrassing that they got bombed back to the stone age within weeks
@@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI Iraq's tanks were outdated, they had no night vision or anything
Saddam stole the Gardner art
Those South Park references will never cease to amuse me
“Eh buddy. You should take Kuwait, guy!”
"!Eh It would be so fucking Cool buddy"
@@jacobleister3055”I’m not your guy, pal!”
@@starset4life175 "I'm not your Pal, Friend"
@@rachelleventura1026”I’m not your friend, buddy!”
Love how they keep the South Park style of Saddam
What do you mean, that's exactly what he looked like in real life.
@@SuspectXX yea he's actually canadian
Hey Buddy!
"Hey, Satan!"
He is angry and small
"Mother of all battles" to "Father of all ass whoopins"
😂 lol
That sir is an understatement
@@paulgoodridge2269torture?
@@jhapethlloydciron3185 now that's an overstatement. More like a one-sided stomp.
@@paulgoodridge2269 Bullying?
Clicked on this faster than the American advance into kuwait
What happened next in Iraq? You invaded Iraq but did not control it because of the Mujahideen.
@@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI What the fukc are you talking about?
@@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDISaddam's corrupt dictatorial regime was toppled in just 20 days, so keep crying.
@@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDISaddam's corrupt dictatorship was toppled in just 20 days, so keep crying.
@@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI AHH yes, the Mujahedeen was in Iraq. You are a very smart historian!
The one dislike is from Saddam Hussein beyond the grave
actually there are 43 dislikes
@@abenazerafework4015Must be the Iraqi Republican Guard divisions that were annihilated during the war.
Nah it was him from his hiding place
LMAOOOO
@@teckzilla108there’s no way it was that funny bro
Thirty seconds in and you got South Park references. Bravo sir.
Did anyone get a hole in one during the golf war?
Ask the Americans at Baghdad and Fallujah
I've heard Kim Jong Il did
@Ahmed-xf8wk
You keep referring to the wrong conflict, and I can’t tell if it’s deliberate or not.
When I was little I thought the Gulf War was fought over golf. Then I thought it happened in the Gulf of Mexico. Then the Iraq War happened and I unfortunately got a crash course in geopolitics and nothing has gone right ever since.
@@akend4426He is a Wahabist fundamentalist I'm not even jk
An alumni of my high school, Reid Wiseman participated in thr post-gulf war bombing campaigns and ended up becoming an astronaut.
Woah, I think they bombed too hard, then.
7:45 stealing that armchair was an outrage
You know you fucked up when both the US and the Soviet Union condemn you.
Britain and France: 👀
Soviet Union in 1991: 🫥
I like the fact that he gives us how long the ad is. I can skip it all😂😂.
Truly a man of the people
bro use sponsorblock
I am sure you are hardly the only person to notice that. You are merely the only person to say you appreciate the courtesy, then go out of your way to ruin it either for us or for him.
@@salvadorromero9712How is he ruining anything?
@@matthewjones39 You didn't appreciate the courtesy of being told how to easily skip the ad? I certainly did, and so apparently did a lot of others
5:51 Never thought I'd see BUFF THATCHER
As a Kuwaiti, I thank you for this video.
It's always scary to know that Kuwait was taken away from us and am quite thankful for all the countries that assisted us.
I could agree Iran stupidity of invading an perfect ally was idiotic but attacking the people and punishing them is also insane
I'm glad you were assisted, though keep in mind it was probably due to oil exports.
Other countries sometimes get invaded and are not helped, especially not by such an overwhelming amount.
@joesomebody3365 that's sort of the way all assistance works though. Seems rather reductive to even mention when the commenter is obviously just showing his goodwill
@@joesomebody3365 it's all just business. either way it's a win win situation.
Kuwait is an Iraqi province.
It’s so easy to forget that Iraq’s army was formidable, well-equipped, and full of experienced, well-trained soldiers (many of whom were veterans of the Iran-Iraq war, a near peer conflict for the Iraqis). It was expected that there would be significant coalition casualties, and that the war would be a tough fight. We look back in hindsight and think to ourselves “wow, what an easy war against a weak enemy” because of how the war went, and I think that really sells the military genius of the U.S. and the coalition short. ,”
The war was made to *look easy* by excellent planning, tricky tactics, and teamwork on the coalition side. The reality was that coordinating the efforts of 42 countries and 900k troops speaking a variety of languages and with different equipment, training levels, and tactics to pull off a coordinated, combined arms operation was nothing short of brilliance. If you think doing so was easy, look at Russia’s performance during the early days of the Ukraine war. They struggled to perform any combined arms operations with a single military force that all spoke the same language and were part of the same country’s military force. That’s what Desert Storm *could* have looked like, but-for the masterful efforts of Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkopf
Iraq was equipped but the tech was more than a generation behind compared to the US, UK and France. It was the biggest factor
Iraq had a massive army of conscripts held together by brutal discipline and a few well-trained veterans. It had plenty of operational problems and failures left over from the war against Iran, which they didn't have time to fix. Iran was in the middle of a Stalin-like purge when Iraq invaded, and even towards the end of the war the terrain and lack of armor really hurt the Iranian armed forces.
The Iraqi military was vastly inflated and had issues all the way down, from outdated weapons to poor training to poor logistics to interservice rivalries that rivaled the Imperial Japanese for how bad it got at times.
@@shadiafifi54 yes to all of that. Serious issues in their military. The coalition forces weren’t perfect either, but much better and much more professional than the Iraqis. But even the Republican Guard units, which were much better trained, got bamboozled and steamrolled by the coalition forces.
@@GeN56YoS Just Soviet technology ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Even tho the Russians performed so badly and still doing so but to their credit at the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine they only had 150-190k troops while Zelenzsky claimed they had 1 million standing force and 800k of them serving in the front unlike the coalition who were 42 countries and 1 million forces..iraqis didn’t get any support like Ukraine and were also poorly trained and exhausted by the Iran-iraq war. So it’s not comparable at all
High quality stuff here. This channel makes better content than major tv networks. Keep them coming, for real!
To expand on the ending, HW Bush had called on the Iraqi military to stage a coup against Saddam Hussein’s regime and did not intend on a popular uprising as the results would be devastating, which was what happened in the 1991 Iraqi Uprisings.
The uprising was brutal. One of my uncles died while it was occuring.
Saddam had the elite republican guards on his side recruited from tribes loyals to him and they still had hundreds of T-72 tanks, the decimated army was in no position to stage a coup
@howiehall4622to be entirely fair to the senior bush, he did not want to intervene inside Iraq whatsoever. He was fine decimating and expelling Iraq from kuwait, but he made it pretty clear that an american invasion or support within Iraq would be harmful to relations with the Arab coalition.
@@manipulatortrash TBH, Bush Sr was much Better than George W. Bush
I blame the Iraqi military. Cult warriors loyal to Saddam.
the mother of all one sided battles
actually not
@@itsjustomx1656 in terms of casualties and material losses yep
@@itsjustomx1656 Lol how was it not one sided? It might one of the most lopsided victories in a war between states over the last half a century.
@@itsjustomx1656yep in terms of everything, strength, casualties etc
Nato-yugoslavia '99?
One of my history professors fought in this war. Great to see you cover it here 👍
My States Battleship the USS Wisconsin thought in the Gulf war if I remember correctly. They may be considered obsolete. But those guns must of been hell for the Iraq when she was firing her broadside from the coast.
Desert Shield / Desert Storm vet here. Good video. The Iraqi soldiers surrendered in such masses we couldn’t process them fast enough when the ground war really got started.
Can you tell more about your time there?
Woah, how were the Kuwaitis when you rescued them?
The bit at the end mentioning the fires burning in Kuwait gives me real "We did it Patrick, we saved the city!" Energy. Fun little anecdote about the war, I remember hearing somewhere, that at some point, American Bombers took off from an Air Base on the East Coast, flew all the way to Iraq without landing, dropped their payload, and flew all the way back to their home base, without once touching the ground, only refueling while in Mid Air. Theres no strategic reason to do this, America did it to prove one simple thing, that it could.
B-52's flew from Barksdale AFB in Louisiana to carry out that mission.
1:53 Didn't expect a South park Reference 💀
A 'british challenger 1 tank' got the longest tank kill ever. Clearly the fighting spirit of the British empire hasn't gone.
I really love all the pop culture and gaming references to your vids they make it all the edutainment to enjoy them
0:26 South Parks version of Saddam Hussein🤣🤣🤣
0:26 Eh guy, relax!
I can change!
You know, even if the golf war ended, there was still things going on and Iraq throughout the late 90s and early 2000s, the second Gulf War being one of the situations Also known as the Iraq war
Crooked nose thatcher was hilarious
I thought they were just poking fun at Thatcher, but then they portrayed the Saudi king the same way. 😂
I think it’s a reference to Spitting Image, a UK comedy show that mocked and caricatured politicians using grotesque puppets
@@immortalobelisk6302 Cool man the british have a great sense of humour I had a chuckle when they colonised my nation and stole 40 trillion dollars worth from the area
@@immortalobelisk6302 Probably. I knew I recognized the style from somewhere, but couldn’t quite remember.
Preparing some hot chocolate and settling in for another armchair historian educational video for the weekend ☕😎
Amazing work
12:54 nice touch
Incredible South Park reference
Thank you so much, this is SO GOOD
That moment when the largest army in the world destroyed the fourth largest army in the world overnight
I can’t thank you enough for the free history lesson. Keep fighting the good fight! ✊
Love the southpark nod there. Terrance and philip 😂😂😂😂
I love how you combine animation and actual footage into your video. Very talented.
Please make video on boer wars.
Worked with a Gulf War vet when I was in Bulgaria. Fun guy. Vibed well.
i love the rambo margaret thatcher animation that shits great
6:00 damn Thatchers beak is like the one of a parrot 👃🏾
It makes me wonder if Opal, the old lady Gym Leader in Pokémon Sword/Shield, is actually based on Thatcher rather than Queen Elizabeth II.
This video was personal to me and part of my family’s military history. This was well done!
@4:11 to skip ad
We know
4:11 it’s always 4:11
Thanks
You know? I've been watching g for 8 years. You have such a beautiful channel. I only wish I could help with your cause in educating the next generations as you have educated me and my kids. May your thirst for concise education and passion for history never fail you. Thanks, Griffin, for all your years of being MY armchair historian.
i am getting ready for black ops 6.......
I was not expecting a south park reference 30 seconds in. Best historian ever!
Reminded of the late, great American stand-up, Bill Hicks, who used to comment that there was no such thing as the Gulf War, because a war is when two armies are fighting 😁
"Surrendered to the news crew" 😂😂
I love the South park references
Another great video
What an coincidence that you uploaded it exactly at the same time as The Operations Room's video of the Desert Storm
Nice video👍
You really did Thatcher dirty with that animation mate 💀 Northern Brit here so we don't care lmao
Funny thing is the media really hyped up the Republican Guard. My father who guarded POWs during the war said they had plenty of Republican Guard prisoners. He also thinks we should’ve just toppled Saddam’s regime there and then.
Yeah because that would have totally worked and wouldn’t produce the exact same results the 2003 invasion did.
7:02 To use all necessary memes
Yo, this is Meme War Zero
My dad was there drove a t-72 tank I think he got captured by Saudi soldiers after for a while
Thank you for this video, my dad served in the gulf war. I thank my dad for his service 🇺🇲
War criminal..
@@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDIhis dad didnt do anything, he just server there
@@SoldierTheProestI feel bad for his dad.
He could be a victim of Government Exploitation (which means he also served in the 2003 war)
@@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI how are you call my pops a war criminal. Serving your nation is not a criminal activity.
@@ConquerousAzeezthe government did Lie about the war. Bush lied. But doesn't change the fact he risked his life for our family, our God and our nation
Great video! Those South Park references are great!
The 101st did not conduct an Airborne Op, it was a 62 mile Air Assault behind enemy lines.
The largest in history infact.
Defund Ukraine
@@Coolidge2329 are you incapable of reading? Comment has nothing to do with Ukraine.
LOVE the south park reference
When you try to be the Arab Napoleon but end up the Arab Solano Lopez
My ancestor Floriano Peixoto, who was a commander of the Brazilian army fought in that war to depose Solano. He later became president after toppling the empire!
My uncle was a marine who participated in Desert Storm. I was only a little kid at the time but I remember him later telling us about how he had managed to get an entire squad of Iraqi soldiers to surrender from a bunker just by offering them the jelly beans we had sent him for Easter. Seeing how hungry they were, he kept his word. He was never right after he came back. For real he was a different person. Something he saw out there...
Love the South Park references. 😂 😆
Ngl, the animator/s Cooked on This one! Love the Caricatures of the British and Saudi Arabia prime ministers!
Saddam Being drawn like in South Park is my new Favorite Recurring joke
Always love how you add pop culture to your videos! Love It!
Can you do a video on WWII from Czechoslovakia’s perspective?
I have to see that!!! 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿
this would be spectacular, in yugoslav perspective too
@@alissondourado5140 I’ll see that too!!!
In collage I actually learned about another tragedy regarding the highway of death, in that due to the sheer amount of depleted uranium rounds that were fired for a short time after the entire field was radioactive to the point that a journalist reporting on the highway soon after the battle got radiation poisoning.
I hope this vid doesn't get demonetized. UA-cam has not been very kind to you lately unfortunately.
I was 11 during the Gulf War came into effect and watched it unfold at home on the TV with my Grandparents. I was though there for Op Jacana and Op Telic.
Regardless of what is said today by some I was proud and honoured to stand beside my brothers of the US forces on both those tours. 🇬🇧
Still found it funny how call of duty said the Highway of Death was Russia's fault 😂
It was
Yeah, that is messed up.
Still found it funny some people think Call of Duty is real life
@@LOKSTED If you base your game on real historical events at least get them right...
As a history nerd I can confirm you’re content is flawless
Can you make a video about Nagorno-Karabakh conflict ?
5:57 that drawing of Thatcher omg
During the Gulf War, more than 200,000 Palestinians fled Kuwait during the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait due to harassment and intimidation by Iraqi security forces, in addition to getting fired from work by Iraqi authority figures in Kuwait. After the Gulf War, the Kuwaiti authorities forcibly pressured nearly 200,000 Palestinians to leave Kuwait in 1991. Kuwait's policy, which led to this exodus, was a response to alignment of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and PLO with Saddam Hussein.
Cool, no one cares.
aint those palestinians support saddam's invasion of kuwait
@@shanenonwolfe4109 I do
@@emmanuelucrosacosta1845 this has nothing to do with the gulf war though
هذه رسالة لكل قادة الدول العربية .. التاريخ سوف يتذكر ما فعلتموه الى آخر الزمان .. فلتكن الذكرى طيبة وحسنة
Incredible reference to South park :D
If you want a good in depth video on the battle of 73 easting, look up greatest tank battles.
Love the South Park references
Yessssssssss i've been waiting so long for this one
I love the south park references
The South Park Canadian inspiration is funny
Skip to 4:12
Those tank stats from them vs the americans was crazy. The part near 17:00
Those are false, the real numbers are hidden, for propaganda purposes to destroy Iraqui morale.
*Team autobalance has been disabled*
I love all your videos, but this one was especially great.
A 20-minute video felt like it was 5.
Arrived here faster than it took saddam to conquer kuwait
Kuwait: ow he hu-
USA: *we got an excuse, go in boys take the oil*
To be fair, he really made a mistake invading Kuwait and thinking no one will do a thing
Please maie a video on the Biafran war
How long does it take to create these videos? They’re amazing.
Came just in time for BO6
I have been watching the videos of the evolution of military uniforms and I would like to contribute to the channel by kindly suggesting that you could try it with the evolution of Spanish uniforms since it is a country in Europe that often tends to be underestimated but has an extensive history as well.
This man should be protected. So neutral and on point.
No, not netural at all
I am honestly shocked by how much I did not know about the Gulf War. Never knew about Iraq's debt to Kuwait, the fact they Actually invaded Saudi Arabia, and the tank battles...
Let’s goooooo! Nothing makes me happier than after a long week of school and cross-country to see a video by armchair historian!
19:51 That mentality was clearly not shared amongst the entire Bush family. 😬