The netizen asked, deterrence and actual combat are two different ways of struggle. What kind of influence did these two ways have on the outcome of the Gulf War?
Cai said that on June 5438+099165438+1October 17, multinational forces, mainly the US military, suddenly launched a large-scale bombing of missile bases, command centers, radar facilities and military airports in Iraq, which meant the outbreak of the Gulf War. In this war, 390 Americans were killed, 3,336 injured, 2/kloc-0 captured and 45 missing. 34 planes and 35 tanks were lost. 36 British soldiers were killed, 43 were injured, 8 were missing, 12 were captured and 7 planes were damaged. At that time, the Iraqi army suffered about 85,000-65,438+casualties, captured 86,000 people, lost 3,874 tanks, armored vehicles 1.450, 29 17 guns and 324 aircraft. In terms of economic losses, the United States spent $60 billion and Iraq lost more than $200 billion. This was the situation in the early 1990s.
Cai said that the Gulf War was another hot war after the end of the Cold War, which pushed the development of war forms to a new stage. In other words, mechanization is developing towards informationization. The decision of the president of the United States to fight the Gulf War should be said to have a far-reaching impact. Because the Gulf War showed the embryonic form of information warfare, it was a war that crossed the war generation gap, and it declared to the world that mankind had shaped a new type of war. Information warfare is a powerful deterrent to mechanized warfare.