Editing Gulf War (section)

===Iraqi===
A United Nations report in March 1991 described the effect on Iraq of the US-led bombing campaign as "near apocalyptic", bringing back Iraq to the "pre-industrial age."<ref>''New York Times'', 22 March 1991 "[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/22/world/after-the-war-un-survey-calls-iraq-s-war-damage-near-apocalyptic.html After the War; U.N. Survey Calls Iraq's War Damage Near-Apocalyptic] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118164833/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/22/world/after-the-war-un-survey-calls-iraq-s-war-damage-near-apocalyptic.html |date=18 November 2018 }}"</ref> The exact number of Iraqi combat casualties is unknown, but is believed to have been heavy. Some estimate that Iraq sustained between 20,000 and 35,000 fatalities.<ref name="Robert Fisk">Robert Fisk, ''The Great War For Civilisation; The Conquest of the Middle East'' (Fourth Estate, 2005), p.853.</ref> A report commissioned by the US Air Force estimated 10,000–12,000 Iraqi combat deaths in the air campaign, and as many as 10,000 casualties in the ground war.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Keaney |first=Thomas |author2=Eliot A. Cohen |title=Gulf War Air Power Survey |publisher=United States Dept. of the Air Force |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-16-041950-8}}</ref> This analysis is based on Iraqi prisoner of war reports.{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}}

According to the Project on Defense Alternatives study, between 20,000 and 26,000 Iraqi military personnel were killed in the conflict while 75,000 others were wounded.<ref name="POL" />

According to [[Kanan Makiya]], "For the Iraqi people, the cost of enforcing the will of the United Nations has been grotesque."<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1991/04/11/iraq-and-its-future/|title=Iraq and Its Future &#124; by Samir al-Khalil &#124; The New York Review of Books|first=Samir|last=al-Khalil|website=www.nybooks.com |date=11 April 1991}}</ref> General Schwarzkopf talked about "a very, very large number of dead in these units, a very, very large number indeed."{{sfnp|al-Khalil|1991}} The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, [[Les Aspin]], estimated that "at least 65,000 Iraqi soldiers were killed".{{sfnp|al-Khalil|1991}} A figure was supported by Israeli sources who speak of "one to two hundred thousand Iraqi casualties." Most of the killing "took place during the ground war. Fleeing soldiers were bombed with a device known as a 'fuel-air explosive.'"{{sfnp|al-Khalil|1991}}