ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to provide a chronicle of the events in the war over Kuwait. The US, British, French, Saudi, and Kuwaiti air forces began with some trepidation the most massive air assault since World War II. Perhaps the US ire was uniquely intense because of a sense of guilt over the mixed signals given this ally of the days of the Iran-Iraq conflict regarding the Iraqi border dispute with Kuwait. The ground war began on February 24 despite signs that the Iraqi army wished only to surrender after the devastating loss of life and military capacity in the air war. An ecological catastrophe was underway and would intensify when Iraq ignited Kuwaiti oil wells during its frantic retreat at the war's end. The chronicles of the judges and kings in the Bible record in a special way the martial and political history of the Hebrew people.
