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Desert Storm and the Sanctions Decade

Desert Storm and the Sanctions Decade

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 Emerging from the Iran-Iraq War with massive debts and a militarized society, Saddam Hussein fatally miscalculated international responses when he invaded Kuwait in August 1990. The swift Desert Storm campaign devastated Iraqi forces, but Saddam survived by brutally crushing post-war uprisings. The UN sanctions regime that followed aimed to force compliance with weapons inspections while weakening the regime. Instead, sanctions devastated civilian populations—causing widespread malnutrition, collapsing healthcare, and creating humanitarian catastrophe—while Saddam strengthened his grip on power. The decade of isolation demonstrated the limitations of economic pressure as a tool for political change, setting the stage for more dramatic intervention.
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