Gulf War
Americannoun
noun
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the war (1991) between US-led UN forces and Iraq, following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
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See Iran-Iraq War
Example Sentences
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Pape finds no evidence—from the wars in Korea to Vietnam to the first Gulf War or any others—to support the theory that air power can accomplish any of those aims on its own.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
Later dubbed "quantitative easing", such upheavals included the 1980s savings and loan crisis, the first Gulf War, the Mexican peso crisis and - shortly after he had retired - the global credit crisis in 2008.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
It was based on a survey of American football fans conducted shortly before the 1991 Gulf War.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026
He covered the Gulf War for the network, traveling in Iraq and Kuwait.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
There had been enough distance from the hostage crisis of the seventies, and the Gulf War of the early nineties.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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