Battle of Khafji 1991

The Battle of Khafji was the first major ground engagement of the Gulf War. It took place in and around the Saudi Arabian city of Khafji, from 29 January to 1 February 1991 and marked the culmination of the Coalition's air campaign over Kuwait and Iraq, which had begun on 17 January 1991.

Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who had already tried and failed to draw Coalition troops into costly ground engagements by shelling Saudi positions and oil storage tanks and firing Scud surface-to-surface missiles at Israel, ordered the invasion of Saudi Arabia from southern Kuwait. He ordered the 1st and 5th Mechanized Divisions and 3rd Armored Division to conduct a multi-pronged invasion toward Khafji, engaging American, Saudi and Qatari forces along the coastline.

These three divisions, which had been heavily damaged by Coalition aircraft in the preceding days, attacked on 29 January. Most of their attacks were fought off by U.S. Marines and Coalition aircraft, but one of the Iraqi columns occupied Khafji on the night of 2930 January. Between 30 January and 1 February, two Saudi Arabian National Guard battalions and two Qatari tank companies attempted to retake control of the city, aided by Coalition aircraft and American artillery. By 1 February, the city had been recaptured at the cost of 43 Coalition soldiers dead and 52 wounded. The Iraqi Army lost between 60 and 300 dead, while an estimated 400 were captured as prisoners of war.

The battle serves as a modern demonstration that air power can halt and defeat a major ground operation. It was also a major test of the Saudi and Qatari armies. Although the capture of Khafji was a propaganda victory for Saddam Hussein's regime, its subsequent recapture by Saudi and Qatari ground forces provided a major morale boost for the Coalition.

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[sociopath79]

i salute the bravery and Courage of the Saudi Aramed forces and the coalition forces, a rightious alliance against injustice and occupation, that brought both muslim world and west together for a good common goal.

[Slash396]

It confuses me why people say the US military sucks because we haven't "won" the war yet. They are hiding in houses behind women, using mortars and IEDs to kill us. Hit and run tactics are the hardest to deal with. Just look at the military power that the US along with its allies can do to an actual army, "face to face".

[sociopath79]

@tariqziyad i looked at your page and i can see there is nothing rightious about you completely, specially when twist my words and put words in my mouth.

so you are nothing but morrocan berber scum, who is pimping on his mother and sister whether in morroco or europe or maybe just a theif.

now eat shit and find some one to fuck you and fuck your family, whether french or arab or german.

bye bye

[inaugusta30906]

13thMEF I will never forget my friends that didnt come home with me from that day...Semper Fi my brothers.

[downloadgoblin]

@Slash396 The US military wins battles. The US public decide whether we win the war.

[tariqziyad]

@sociopath79 there has NEVER been anything righteous about the 'west"

[JRandTanner]

if anybody was at Khafji and the name Pellegrino sounds familar contact me

[Slash396]

@PolPotPop Ummm, let me think, a threat to crash our economy, just maybe...

[luka2298]

@Slash396 same waas with soviets,just they fought with three times bigger amount of mujahedeens

[Nasimdavildog]

I guss Ratten Wahabi Saddam Gave his bodies dogy style attck loooooooooooooooooooooool

And they damb deserve it

[ArabIraqi]

@Nasimdavildog fuck imam mahdi and shia :-)))

[Nasimdavildog]

Sadam was a F**king ratting Sunni and the Saudie's are Sunnies so let them f**K each other