The Gulf War launched by the United States was authorized by the United Nations to restore the sovereignty of Kuwaiti territory illegally occupied by Iraqi aggression and was a just war. The United States used high-tech weapons to almost completely annihilate the fleeing Iraqi occupation forces with absolute superiority in land, sea and air. The goal of the Gulf War, which does not include controlling Iraq itself, will not encounter resistance from Iraqi civilians, so the losses of the US military are very small.
The Iraq War, on the other hand, was a war waged by the United States against Iraq using forged false information, which was an unjust war of aggression without the authorization of the United Nations. Although in the early stage of the war, the United States overthrew the Saddam regime in a short period of time and controlled the entire territory of Iraq, because the US military indiscriminately and wantonly slaughtered civilians, aroused the strong resistance of the Iraqi people, and all kinds of anti-US forces sprung up like mushrooms, guerrilla warfare, roadside bombs, so that the US military could not be defended, and suffered heavy losses. It can be said that what the US military experienced during the occupation of Iraq was a nightmare for US soldiers! So it's not surprising that 5,000 U.S. troops died in the Iraq War. But the most tragic is iraqi civilians, a war that killed 100,000 Iraqi civilians and injured hundreds of thousands. #海湾战争时期美军才死了一百多人, but nearly 5,000 people died in the Iraq War, why #
