Originally Posted by
Obba
At the time of Desert Shield - wasn't the Iraqi Military listed as the worlds 4th largest army in qty of units...?
And most of that was Russian made ?
So brings to mind the quality of the goods or lack of training (I suspect the latter), that Stormin Norman took Iraq in 100days.
As this is a military aviation forum, I'd not thought that I'd need to point out that Norm had air superiority, and even air supremacy, once the ground units got rolling.
He also had a significant advantage in space based "eyes in the sky" -- combined arms warfare being what it is, I'd not attribute that success to equipment differences or numbers.