The final result of the Gulf War was that the multinational forces led by the United States won a decisive victory at a small cost, which dealt a heavy blow to the Iraqi army. Iraq finally accepted United Nations resolution 660 and withdrew its troops from Kuwait. The Iraqi army suffered about 65,438+10,000 casualties (including 20,000 deaths), captured 86,000 people, lost 324 planes, 3,847 tanks, armored vehicles 1.450, artillery 29 1.07, and warships 1.433, resulting in direct economic losses of 23.
There were 4,232 casualties among multinational forces, including 48 American soldiers killed 148, 458 wounded in combat, 65,438 killed in non-combat and 2,978 wounded in non-combat. Other multinational forces were killed 192 and injured 3 18. The US military lost 56 planes (68 multinational forces), 35 tanks and 2 ships.
The US Congress calculated that the US war expenditure was $665,438 +0 1 billion. Others estimate that it is 7 1 100 million dollars. Other countries in the world paid about $53 billion: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries paid $36 billion, and Germany and Japan paid $654.38+06 billion. About 25% of Saudi Arabia's payments are made by providing services, materials and transportation to the troops.
The US military's expenditure only accounts for 74% of all allied forces, so the global total expenditure is definitely higher. For example, Britain paid 465,438+billion for the war. In order to speed up the transportation of the United States to the Gulf, Japan, Greece, Norway, Denmark and other maritime powers have also provided large transport ships for the US military. According to the data released by the U.S. Maritime Command, the ships provided by the above countries account for 46% of all the materials delivered by the United States to the Gulf.
With the help of the United States, more than a dozen countries agreed to provide cash and material assistance to the United States. Among them, Kuwait provided the most assistance, with cash of $654.38+05.974 billion and transportation worth $32 million; Saudi Arabia provided US$ 6,543.8+US$ 03.265 billion in cash and US$ 3.575 billion in kind assistance;
UAE's assistance is US$ 3.875 billion and US$ 200 million in kind; Japan assisted 9.9665438 billion dollars in cash and 780 million dollars worth of various equipment; Germany supports $5.76 billion in cash and materials worth $800 million; South Korea assisted 329 million US dollars in cash and 57 million US dollars worth of materials.
The Allies finally provided $70 billion in cash and materials to the United States, of which $54 billion was provided to the United States and the rest to Egypt, Turkey and Jordan. In this way, the United States will only bear 20% of all war funds, 60% will be borne by wealthy Gulf countries such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and the remaining 20% will be borne by economically developed countries such as Japan and Germany.