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collinmcnulty • last Monday at 1:12 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

The USA-led coalition conclusively won the Gulf War. We don’t think about it as much precisely because it wasn’t a boondoggle that lasted years and years.

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nl • last Monday at 3:09 AM

Since the Vietnam war the US has successfully (defined by "achieved the stated goals") invaded a country as part of the following conflicts:

  Grenada (1983)
  Panama to arrest General Noriega (1989)
  Iraq in Gulf War 1 (1991)
  Haiti (1994)
There have been other conflicts the US was involved with that they won too, but the others didn't involve invasions (eg NATO in Bosnia
lostlogin • last Monday at 2:05 AM

> The USA-led coalition conclusively won the Gulf War.

That was a weird win with another invasion required for some reason and a toxic legacy of Gulf War Syndrome and no fly zones.

Military the US crushed it but it didn’t seem to solve anything.

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actionfromafar • last Monday at 2:04 AM

The USA-led coalition finally managed to overcome ISIS insurrectionists and helped Iran install Iranian sponsored militias in the Iraqi parliament and government.

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nutjob2 • last Monday at 2:06 AM

They won the war and lost the peace.