On August 2, 1990, the Iraqi Army invaded and occupied the neighboring state of Kuwait.[3] The invasion, which followed the inconclusive Iran–Iraq War and three decades of political conflict with Kuwait, offered Saddam Hussein the opportunity to distract political dissent at home and add Kuwait's oil resources to Iraq's own, a boon in a time of declining petroleum prices.[4]

In response, the United Nations began to pass a series of resolutions demanding the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from Kuwait.[5] Afraid that Saudi Arabia would be invaded next, the Saudi government requested immediate military aid.[6] As a result, the United States began marshalling forces from a variety of nations, styled the Coalition, on the Arabian peninsula



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