Why can't US do the same with North Korea, Iran?
US seems to pick fights (Afghanistan, Iraq, vietnam etc) where they know the other side does not have nuclear deterrence.
US seems to pick fights (Afghanistan, Iraq, vietnam etc) where they know the other side does not have nuclear deterrence.
In the case of desert storm, The US along with 34 other countries were coming to aid of Kuwait which Iraq invaded and annexed over an oil spat.
They might have lost the war but guess who gets the cavity search before boarding the plane to visit grandma. Guess who is freer after enjoys more privacy after the war relatively to before the war.
The war no longer ends at the battlefield.
To have a nice old school nationalistic wars you have no choice but to have a civil war first to weed out people that aspire anything else than nationalistic pride first.