Is there any historical significance to Operation Desert Shield?

Question

Is there any historical significance to Operation Desert Shield?

Answer 1

16 days of bombing the c**p out of another country...thats about it...

good luck........

Answer 2

Time will tell.  It may be a skirmish.  It may be one of the early rounds in a clash of cultures that will change the world.

If England had not declared war, Hitler's invasion of Poland would have been an interesting, but relatively unimportant, sidenote to history.

Answer 3

In operation desert shield the largest forces in the area (the Persian gulf) was ever assembled

As for desert storm, it was a unique case where a war was authorized by a UN resolution. It was supported by the US & the USSR. Among the world superpowers only China remains natural, the rest had supported the war.

For the 1st time technology & airpower play that significant rule & get more attention from the media than solders or commanders. Comparing to WWII for instance, the stars for that war were commanders like Montgomery, Patton, McArthur, etc. In desert storm the real stars were the stealth F-117, the Tomahawk missile, the Patriot anti-ballistic missile, etc.

Answer 4

Not really.  The Gulf War was really just proof that a regional dictator has/had no military power compared to a global coalition.  With nearly 1,000,000 coalition forces formed in and around Saudi Arabia, it only took a short offensive effort to drive Iraq out of Kuwait and force their surrender.  Operation Desert Shield itself was just an effort to prevent Iraq from invading Saudi Arabia, which they didn't have a chance in h**l to do.