As a veteran of this conflict I know of loss of every American soldier, sailor, airman and marine as it was my job to return their personal effects to their next of kin. To this day I have memory of each and every one.

“Soldiers win battles, Logistics win wars” General John J Pershing

General Norman Schwarzkopf was brilliant in commanding Desert Storm plans!!

The 3:1 rule of combat states that in order that for the attacker to win the battle, his forces should be at least three times the force of the defender

Can anyone imagine the logistics to get all of these men, machines, and supplies over there? Impressive.

I led my Tank platoon on that US 1st Infantry Division attack of the Iraqi defenses....we worked with your fellow Brits quite a bit leading up to the attack.The video doesn't do it justice My tank company had our 1st re-union last May -- 31 years later...18 of our 62 Tankers participated, many of us have since had multiple combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan in the years since -- what an impressive bunch of warriors

the people that gave up knew they wouldnt be treated badly, but would also get food and water and needed supplies.

Also a vet of Desert Shield/Storm (2nd MarDiv). The #1 incident I recall was a Stinger AA missile team that got off track when crossing the minefield and hit a mine. They returned to their unit and got a new HMMWV and weapons. Then had the bad luck to have a mortar round blow up their second vehicle. Once again they returned to their unit and were told, NO! You've used your share of luck, you're not going out again. We did have some artillery land about 500m from us, once. Last Iraqi artillery I saw during the invasion. We spent 2 days of the 4-day "war" stopped waiting for the US Army's to get their big flanking maneuver in motion and to their final attack positions.

I was one of the Marines in a Tank Division that breached the Minefields. Its hard to describe how big and scary those minefields were. The mines were on top and very visable. We were told that crossing through them is a great opportunity for thr enemy to strike and cause a panic. I can still remember being stalled in the middle on the narrow path, and knowing there is nowhere to run to and take cover if attacked. Best of times, worst of times. Semper Fi

When it comes to war, and especially large conflicts, while strategy might be important, Logistics are the difference between greatness and mediocrity.

You must follow this up by viewing General Norman Schwarzkopf's "mother of all briefings" he delivered four days into the ground war! Amazing. What a leader.

This complete and lopsided victory wasn't as much that the Iraqi army sucked, which they did, but it was more because the Americans and coalition partners were so, SO much better. Better training, better equipment, better tactics, better motivation, better everything.

My brother in law was a marine recon sniper, and was giving targets while on top of a building in Kuwait city for the battleships... he said it was the most impressive thing he has ever seen

The 101st Airborne, mentioned in the beginning.... you guys are watching part of their WW2 story in Band of Brothers right now.🙂

Happy St Patrick's Day everyone ☘️🍻🇺🇲❤️🇬🇧

My father was a radar warrant officer, and he was with the first infantry division from Fort Riley, Kansas during desert storm. Crazy time y’all I can remember when the air war started then when the ground war started it got real for us because that’s where my dad was . Y’all keep up the good work.

And, they weren't just fighting the U.S., the entire Western world was standing against them. As well as the majority of the Arab world.

The Battle of 73 Easting, which I do believe was in the second day, was the largest tank battle since WWII. It was a total slaughter.

That MINE CLEARING LINE CHARGE is a beast.. it'll rattle your guts.

This guy has such a good channel. The videos he creates take a lot of time and painstaking effort.

Served with the 403rd Miltary Police Prisoner of War Camp during Desert Storm. Expecting 10,000 POWs and at peak were over 15,000. Took us over 24 hours with everyone working to process the first wave of POWs we received.

Dictatorships aren’t worried about preserving their people or their nation, they’re concerned with preserving their power. Giving up would possibly result in them losing their power, even if it would save a lot of their people and be better for their nation on the world stage, so they make other people fight.

I was a tank driver in The 1st Infantry division . My platoon was a breach platoon. 2nd Platoon C Company 3rd Battalion 37th Armored regiment. We were the tip of the spear for 7th Corp.

I love listening to yall while i work 😊

Just a note on the 101st. It is no longer a paratroop division. It is an air calvary division and uses helicopters for insertion and egress. The 82nd is the only Army paratroop division.

As an 82nd Airborne division veteran of desert shield and storm i can say this video makes me feel old. 😂😂😂

More of our soldiers died under friendly fire than from actual combat in Desert Storm

There is a very important axiom: Amateurs talk tactics. Professionals talk logistics. Meaning you might have the best of equipment and men, but without food, water, ammo, fuel, spare parts, etc you aren’t going very far and you won’t win.

09:50 the MLRS rocket artillery you saw then is basically today's HIMARS. The major difference being the US used cluster bombs then vs singular warheads they use in Ukraine today. HIMARS is on a Truck with up to 6 rockets, MLRS is on a tank body with up to 12 rockets.

I had 3 family members serving in the ground war. One was at a famous tank battle called The Medina Ridge tank battle

I can remember the day my dad came to my daycare to let me know he was getting deployed for desert storm. Talked to him through the years and thankfully, his unit never saw actual combat, he was a mechanic, but they did go on patrols and one time accidentally crossed the lines and thankfully stumbled on a friendly base. He said he was there for months with nothing happening, then one morning rockets were flying.

My Dad was one of the 16,000 soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division

And at the 12 min mark It was LTC Rich Comer (retired as a major general) that led the AH-64's in with mighty MH-53J Pavlow

After a serious injury in 1982 I had to leave the military my father-in-law finally revealed his part in World War II. He was a pilot he thought the battle of midway he flew over 50 missions. I was shocked you’d never look at this man and see how strong and how brave he was I contacted some friends in the military I decided to return because my specialty was tanks and I ended up in the gulf war and I was proud to serve in the first war and I did that for my father-in-law God bless him.

When the military in my town mobilized to go to the Gulf War every citizen turned out to line the streets cheering them on, waving flags and spontaneously singing patriotic songs. Never doubt the US reverence for our military, for our soldiers. ❤ to everyone who has served this blessed & great country,

Navy vet retired CPO Corpsman and Desert Storm combat medic, I remember this all too well. Lost a classmate in the first barracks SCUD attack.

Easy company from Band of brothers was part of the 101st airborne Division is WW2.

There's an old movie called "The Big Red One" with a very young Mark Hamill (aka Luke Skywalker) about their role in WW2...

i actually haven’t seen this one yet, i’ve seen the air war parts but looking forward to this one with ya guys.

Damn! Millie got that brow game on point!

I worked with two veterans of this war, one was a USAF forward observer who operated 50 kilometers behind enemy lines. A real man. Fortunately dictators aren't very smart.

I would serve in 94 with a sailor who was offshore during Desert Storm. He said that he watched a V (Vic to you British) of three B-52's just drop their bombs on The "Goddamn Saddam" line, and you could see another V making a turn towards the line. After the three B-52's dropping bombs were empty, in just a few seconds the next three were dropping their bombs with the first bombs within feet of where the other V dropped their last bombs! Meanwhile, another V of three B-52's were making their approach turn!!! He said you could hear it coming soon after you saw the contrails of the bombers "in dawn's early light", and it would go on all day, from the start of the line, to the sea...

My brother was in this war, he was in infantry with the Bradley vehicles, i don't remember what division. He said air support did most of the work and most of them surrendered.

Proud Desert Shield Desert Storm Veteran. 12B Combat Engr.. Sappers Forward! 8 months in Saudi Arabia TRNG every day to fight the Elite Iraq Army that put up a fight after being bomb everyday and night, but the ground war was over 100 plus hours later and they gave up, they was defeated and at the ground war cam to an end, my unit was 6 kilometers from Baghdad. My Army Unit was 72nd Engr Co, 197th Infantry that support the 16 Airborne Division that supported the 24th INF Division.

This is the war that Al Murray refers to when he mentions:- America sent Water Soldiers to fight in the desert, The British then had to send in the desert rats to help them, Some 1,800 Marines, 14 pieces of major equipment, and 19 aircraft participated in the Desert Storm National Victory Parade in Washington, D.C. that was led by General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Commander of the U.S. Central Command and Desert Storm forces The British part of Operation Desert Storm was called Operation Granby. The operation began on January 15, 1991 with the first air raids by British Tornado fighter-bombers starting the next day. The Tornados proved their worth during the month that followed as rugged aircraft and achieved great results, but the land phase, which began on February 24, was no less successful. In fact, some of the achievements by the British, such as the longest tank to tank kill to date, are yet to be beat. Within 66 hours of the fighting, the British managed to advance almost 300km across Iraq (a feat almost unheard of) and destroyed no less than three armored Iraqi divisions in the process. Much of this success can be attributed to the Challenger 1 Main Battle Tank, the workhorse of the British Army and one of the best MBTs of its era - if not the best. Of the 420 vehicles built in total, the British deployed 221 during the operations. These vehicles belonged to the following units: 7th Armoured Brigade (the legendary Desert Rats), specifically: The Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars (deployed initially) The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (deployed initially) 4th Armoured Brigade (the Black Rats), specifically: 14th/20th King’s Hussars (both regiments merged in India before the Second World War) Life Guard (an elite formation with hundreds of years of tradition) Both brigades had previously been deployed to Germany and were moved to Saudi Arabia from there in November 1990 as a part of a major military buildup. Before the fighting commenced, these vehicles were modified as such: Installed blocks of extra composite armor and ERA, Repainted to desert sand color, Fitted with additional storage for water and other equipment, Fitted with long-range fuel tanks, Fitted with a smoke generator, injecting diesel fuel into the exhaust system, Modifications to the cooling system and other adjustments for the desert environment How the Desert Rats helped to capture Kuwait:- The 7th Armoured Brigade returned to the desert when it arrived in Saudi Arabia in October 1990 as part of Operation Granby, intended to protect Saudi Arabia from invasion by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. The brigade, commanded by Brigadier Patrick Cordingley, later took part in the Coalition of the Gulf War ground campaign to liberate Iraqi-occupied Kuwait on 24 February 1991 that began after a sustained air campaign. The Desert Rats, along with the rest of the 1st Armoured Division, carried out a left-hook manoeuvre that swung round the Iraqi Republican Guard. The brigade advanced deep into Iraqi territory, encountering some armour of the Republican Guard. The ground campaign formally ended on 28 February with the liberation of Kuwait achieved. 🇬🇧😎👍🏼

I was around 8 when this happened, so I never knew too much about it. This video and the last have been amazing to watch and learn from! Thanks!

LTC Cody’s son also happened to become a LTC and was the BC in the same unit as his father. Got to experience that before I left Campbell!

Referring the 101st Airborne as "paratroopers" is confusing, due to the fact that they haven't been on jump status since Vietnam. They are what is known as an Air Assualt Division where they transport in mass by use of helicopter.

Millie hair is on point today 🤌

14:16 Infantry wins battles, logistics wins wars. -Army General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I The US fight constant wars since WW2 that are oceans away has made them experts at logistics, which is everything in war. A tank can't move without fuel and a soldier can't fight without food.

Thanks for sharing.

when attacking an entrenched enemy it is recommended to have a 3 to 1 numbers advantage ...

The 101st Airborne Division has been a paratrooper division since Vietnam. During Vietnam, they transitioned to Air Assault. Meaning they enter battle in helicopters. The only paratroopers left in the US Army are the 82nd Airborne, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, US Rangers, US Special Forces, and US Delta Force.

I LOVE this series by the Operations Room. so detailed and informative!

I was in 3rd armour div for this mission .. i arrived to the unit ...just in time to leave with the advance party to go over and start staging vehicles for the bulk of 3rd armour and 7th core.

Time stamp 5:46. When Seventh Corp breaced the border I was in a Blackhawk over the FLOT Forward Line of Troops. There was a solid wall of Armor for as far as I could see, in both directions, the Iraqi Army had no chance. It was a tsunami that opened fire on them almost simultaneously across the the Front.

My roommate in college was a Marine Reserve. He was activated and he was there.

You need part 2 of the air war. The ground war is separate.

enjoy your videos ty for making them

My unit was attached to 18th Airborne Corps and later on permanent attached. 3rd ACR. From the original Opperation order, things moved quite fast. Was surprised how early we were ordered in. Nice to see it all onthe sand board though. Things got bogged up with all the surrenders though. No real will to fight. Nice reaction I think. Puts my head in a totally different place seeing it again. ❤️🌹🤘

My cousin fought in that War, He made Sgt. He was a Helicopter gunner, he didn't like talking about it

PT2. Thanks great vid

Desert Storm Marine vet (5/11, 1st MarDiv). Just a little basic information about the artillery rounds used. Each 155mm round was a DPICM (Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munition) which had 88 sub-munitions (like grenades) inside. So for every round we fired there was 88 smaller detonations vs 1 big one.

The main criticism of this war was the “highway of death” but I didn’t see anything wrong with it. The Iraqis were told to leave all their military equipment behind, and they didn’t. They also were fighting as they were fleeing. But the optics were pretty bad because we totally decimated them.

I was there. Infantry, 101st Airborne. Thanks for doing these videos about DS/DS

Love your usa information keep up the great work and great videos

Excellent!!

You should watch the press conference General Schwartzkopf gave at the time.

20:38 Casualties in the military does not mean deaths only, it means both wounded and dead, so those two casualties could have just been two people badly wounded

I am also a veteran of this war. I was an AH-1F Cobra crew chief in the 101st Airborne. While our Cobras were out looking for anything in the area, the crew chiefs ended up going in with the second wave of helicoptors to what we called Phaseline Cobra, but the video called an Objective. It was just a coincidence that the destination had the same name as our AH-1s. We flew into Iraq on a very crowded and seemingly overloaded CH-47 Chinook, filled halfway up (past the seats) with equipment and baggage. Underneath, we had a slingload of ammunition boxes. I seem to recall it taking about an hour or so to get to our destination. When we got there, they had us surround the Chinook with a perimeter while those still aboard threw all of the equipment and baggage out the back. Meanwhile, we had no real idea where we were. The sheltered area where we had landed didn't really allow us to see anything, other than a command and control Black Hawk sitting on a hill a short distance away. When the Chinook was finally unloaded and flew away to go back down to Saudi Arabia, we were pointed in what seemed like a random direction and told it was about three quarters of a mile or so to where our unit (A Troop, 2/17 Cavalry) was mustering. Carrying all of our equipment by hand, it was probably the most physically strenuous thing I had ever done in my life. Dressed in my chemical suit (MOPP suit), with my M16, gas mask, rucksack, kit bag, and my tool box, I had to stop several times along the way (bad back). Finally, we reached the spot where our unit was. The pilots were sitting around on the aircraft (Cobras and OH-58 Kiowas) eating lunch. Shortly thereafter, they headed back out, and we looked around for the various places we were going to set up our sleeping bags. There were no tents. Those were still a day and a half away on their way north to us. The weather was fairly nasty and rainy during this point, so I found myself a small rise of land around which I could dig a rain trench to prevent my little campsite from getting flooded out. The temperature was pretty low, or at least it felt like it. The aircraft eventually came back around sundown, and my pilots informed me that they had killed an ammo truck with the aircraft's 20mm cannon. The aircraft had all been refueled and rearmed at a FARP that had already been set up, so there was nothing else for me to do that day. I crawled into my sleeping bag, wrapped both it and myself in my rain poncho, and ended my first day of the ground war.

These videos are amazing

When we first landed in Saudi and began digging in on the Iraq border, we brought with us, 10,000 body bags and had every expectation of using most of them. We thought for sure we would be in deep shit when we arrived. We couldn't believe they never attacked us (in force, there were random mortars, but they were ineffective). We only lost one Trooper. It was due to a vehicle accident that was not combat related.

1st Cav!!!!! BOOM!!! My brothers!! And I guess nowadays.. my sisters. Too

My first engagement was the battle of khafji. Served with A battery 1/12

Marines US were in Kuwait on February 22nd,Taskforce Grizzly, I was there.

The mother of all battles ! Sorry I can't say that with a straight face.😂

2 Batt, 1st Aviation Regt. 1st Armored. Under operational control of the 2nd ACR. Apache Battalion. A very small cog, in a very big machine.

I went to this little barbecue get together as a Marine Corporal, Task Force Ripper... "C" Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st MarDiv. We arrived in Saudi Arabia a few days into August 1990, and when we drove into Kuwait in February of 1991 on Amtracs, we wiped our asses with the Iraqis, which offered little resistance. It was over within a day. By nightfall we were told to stop and dig in just south of Kuwait International Airport because we were moving too fast, even though processing thousands of surrendering Iraqis slowed us down quite a bit. The next morning we discovered many anti-aircraft guns emplaced around the airfield that had been aimed straight at us like regular heavy ground weapons, and we had slept with them pointing at us. The crews had either abandoned their guns and deserted, or had been neutralized the previous day by our artillery and Cobras and Air Force A-10s. Lovely. We departed after 8 months in the desert in April, flew straight back to 29 Palms, put our junk in the barracks, and that was it. No fuss, no muss. Semper Fi.

I was a 20 year old with the Third Armored Division, and I still remember crossing the sand berms into Iraq. It was a long haul from there on into Kuwait with a fight with the Republican Guard.

I was one of the first people in IRAQ WITH THE 101ST before the main body went in❤❤❤❤❤

Off topic but The Big Red One is an excellent WW2 movies that I highly recommend for a movie reaction.

the segment is technically incorrect in the beginning; the 101st Airborne is not Paratroops anylonger, they are Air Assault/Air Mobile, use of helicopters vice paratroop drops. So, they are only historical in terminology from WW-2, for historical value; their concept in battle is much different. just to clarify for you.

Hi you two from SoCal... I recently saw a video I thought the two of you might enjoy. The KZfaq video name is: "British Highschoolers Try Biscuits and Gravy for the First Time!" :)

One funny story was an Iranian immigrant to the U.S. who chose the wrong time to visit family in Iraqi. He was picked up by the Iraqis & drafted into their army & sent to the front lines in his civilian clothes. He couldn't give up fast enough. Still dressed in street shoes & clothes. That must have been a relief for him.

One thing that gets lost in these very good videos is the distances involved. Where the French division and the U.S. XVIII Airborne Corps crossed the border is 175 miles from the westernmost point in Kuwait--about the same distance as from London to Leeds. This came as a huge strategic surprise to the Iraqis.

i was in England when the ground war started. At the time they had 4 tv channels, how did they miss it?

I was in boot camp when Iraq invaded Kuwait and in Tech School when the war began and was over by the time i got to my first ship. I do remember how the pundits and military reps were saying that at the time, Iraq had the 4th largest standing Army in the world. What made the difference was our tech and training. Better equipment, tactics, and most of all people. Best trained, fed and led. People were nervous, everyone was, but our leadership had it nailed down and thiers wasnt great. Some was though.

My dad was with the 101st during the Gulf War, the only other time I've seen Campbell that empty was when I went for air assault and they were in Afghanistan.

You need to watch the rest of the series of videos.

the movie (courage under fire) cover some event during this war

Keep in mind this wasn't some sand cave, the Republican Guard was the 4th or 5th best military in the world. They were no joke. It's just the US is so extra

2 is absurd. even accidents are more than that

I like the video that tells of a specific crazy tank battle during this invasion. I don't remember the name of the battle or video though. Would be cool to see reactions to that one.

Please do episode 3 soon!

Related Suggestion: YT channel -- Not What You Think; Video -- "The Bomb That Ended a Wat" It's not the only reason Saddam gave up, but the story of the quickly invented bunker buster is great.

The level of disrespect Gen. Norman Schwartzkopf had for Sadam and his military was unreal, and he wasn't wrong, the ground war went far easier then he had even expected.

My Uncle was there. Us First Cavlary Division. 2nd Battalion. 5TH CAV regiment. Mechanized 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

US Navy Veteran was in Dessert Storm

Saddam didn't think anyone would do anything about the annexation of Kuwait, then he thought that his army would inflict severe casualties against the US and the people back home would demand an end to the operation. Iraq had been successful against poorly trained and equipped Iranian forces in their long war by digging in and mowing down waves of Iranian teenagers despite being outnumbered, he thought the same tactics would work against the professional, motorized coalition armies. He was wrong on every count, but he still managed to hold onto power after defeat, usually dictators that lose a war are not so fortunate.

I was with 1st AD VII Corps.