Editing Kuwait Armed Forces (section)

=== Gulf War and Operation Desert Storm (1990–1991) ===

[[File:Kuwaiti M-84, Operation Desert Storm.jpg|thumb|Kuwaiti [[M-84]] MBTs.]]
[[File:DesertStormMap v2.svg|thumb|Ground troop movements 24–28 February 1991 during [[Operation Desert Storm]]]]
In the same year, Kuwait was part of a U.S.-led military coalition formed in response to the invasion which expelled Iraq from Kuwait in what became known as the Gulf War or First Persian Gulf War. [[Operation Desert Storm]] was launched by the coalition. Douglas A-4 Skyhawks of the Kuwait Air Force destroyed several Iraqi Naval ships trying to infiltrate into Bubiyan Island.{{Citation needed|date=July 2015}} The Kuwait Armed Forces commissioned and entered into service the [[M-84]] battle tank during the attack on Iraqi forces in Saudi Arabia.

After the four-week [[Gulf War#Air campaign|air campaign]], coalition forces launched the ground offensive. They quickly penetrated deep into [[Iraq]], with the Legion taking the Al Salman Airport, meeting little resistance. The war ended after a hundred hours of fighting on the ground, which resulted in very light casualties for the Legion.

==== Aftermath ====
U.S. President [[George H. W. Bush]] condemned the invasion and led efforts to drive out the Iraqi forces. Authorized by the [[United Nations Security Council]], an American-led coalition of 34 nations led by [[Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.]] fought the Gulf War to liberate Kuwait. Following several weeks of aerial bombardment, a U.S.-led United Nations (UN) coalition began a ground assault on 23 February 1991 that completely removed Iraqi forces from Kuwait in four days. After liberation, the UN, under [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 687|Security Council Resolution 687]], demarcated the Iraq-Kuwait boundary on the basis of the 1932 and the 1963 agreements between the two states. In November 1994, Iraq formally accepted the UN-demarcated border with Kuwait, which had been further spelled out in [[United Nations Security Council Resolution|Security Council Resolutions]] [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 773|773]] (1992) and 833 (1993).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N93/313/44/IMG/N9331344.pdf?OpenElement|title=ODS HOME PAGE|author=ODS Team|access-date=23 December 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006193259/http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N93/313/44/IMG/N9331344.pdf?OpenElement|archive-date=6 October 2014}}</ref>

There was an [[Palestinian exodus from Kuwait (Gulf War)|exodus of Palestinian from Kuwait]] during and after the Gulf War. During the Iraqi occupation more than 200,000 Palestinians fled Kuwait due to harassment, intimidation by Iraqi security forces,<ref name="ir" /> and being dismissed from their employment due to Iraqi influence.<ref name=ir>{{cite web|author=Shafeeq Ghabra|title=The PLO in Kuwait|url=http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/1457|date=May 8, 1991|access-date=July 27, 2014|archive-date=March 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307074924/https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/1457|url-status=live}}</ref> After the Gulf War, the Kuwaiti authorities forcibly pressured nearly 200,000 Palestinians to leave Kuwait in 1991.<ref name="ir" /> This was in response to the alignment of Palestinian leader [[Yasser Arafat]] and the [[PLO]] with Iraqi dictator and invader of Kuwait [[Saddam Hussein]].
The Palestinians who fled Kuwait were [[Jordanian people|Jordanians]] naturalized citizens.<ref name=jor>{{Cite journal|author1=Yann Le Troquer  |author2=Rozenn Hommery al-Oudat |name-list-style=amp |title=From Kuwait to Jordan: The Palestinians' Third Exodus|journal=Journal of Palestine Studies|year=1999|volume=28 |issue=3 |pages=37–51|doi=10.2307/2538306 |jstor=2538306 }}</ref>

After the liberation, Kuwait became a close military partner of the United States, Britain and France.<ref name=stratstud>{{cite book |url=http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub788.pdf |title=KUWAITI NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE U.S.-KUWAITI STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP AFTER SADDAM |publisher=Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College |author=Terrill, W. Andrew |year=2007 |location=Carlisle, USA |page=116 |isbn=978-1-58487-305-1 |access-date=2014-04-06 |archive-date=2013-10-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131001061152/http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB788.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Kuwait entered into a ten-year defense cooperation agreement with the United States in September 1991, and later with the United Kingdom and France. The defense cooperation with the United States, the United Kingdom and France is done at the training level in the foreign country and the joint military exercise level on Kuwaiti soil.

The agreement with the United States also includes port access, military equipment storage, and joint training and exercises. The agreement did not officially provide for the stationing of United States service personnel in Kuwait, as the 1,500 US personnel remaining after the Gulf War were scheduled to leave within a few months.

In 1992, the Kuwait Armed Forces initiated joint structuring of its various Armed Forces. In the same year, F/A-18 Hornet aircraft were delivered and entered official service with the Kuwaiti Air Force.