How many years did the war between Iraq and America last?

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Let me talk about why the Iraq war happened ~

Three factors from an international perspective. The first factor is oil. The Middle East and the Gulf region, especially the region where Iraq is located, are the regions with the richest oil reserves in the world. There is a saying that 75-80% of oil reserves are stored here, and oil is the main artery of the global economy today. Iraq has the second largest energy resource in the world. We can think about it. A regime that is hostile to the United States and has always held a grudge controls a lifeline of the western economy-oil. In any case, this is unthinkable for the hardliners in the United States, the military industrial groups in the United States, the White House and the Pentagon, so we must pull out this nail. This is like getting rid of Milosevic when the United States promoted NATO's eastward expansion a few years ago. This time, it will pull out Saddam Hussein's nails, so that the United States can control the main energy sources in the Middle East and the Gulf that affect the global economic development. This is a major reason. Considering the re-division of the global oil market and market forces after the war, the behavior of the United States is not difficult to understand.

The second reason is that the academic media has not talked enough at present, that is, the Gulf Middle East where Iraq is located is the junction of three continents, Asia, Africa and Europe, and it is the commanding height of geopolitics and geopolitics. There are many roads, sea and air passages through this area. If we control this area, we will seize the commanding heights of global geopolitics. Therefore, the determination of the United States to fight this war can be explained from a geopolitical perspective.

The third reason, from a cultural point of view, has a profound significance, that is, to guard against the so-called clash of civilizations. As we know, Huntington of Harvard University predicted that there may be a contest between different civilizations when the new century comes, which is called "clash of civilizations". That is, the conflict between Christian civilization, Islamic civilization and Confucian civilization in East Asia, especially regarding Islamic civilization as a potential challenger to Western civilization. The latter has been regarded as heresy by Christian civilization for thousands of years. The West launched the Crusades around the tenth century, which lasted for hundreds of years. After September 1 1, President Bush blurted out that the United States launched a new crusade. Later, his spokesman tried to correct it, saying it was a "slip of the tongue", but everyone knew what he really thought. In the eyes of Americans, this war is a counterattack by western civilized forces against non-western extremist forces and a contest between justice and evil. In a word, from the perspectives of oil, geopolitics and preventing the so-called "clash of civilizations", it is inevitable for the United States to fight. It doesn't matter whether the specific time is this month or next month, this week or next week. In the final analysis, it indicates that a superpower will launch a special war at the beginning of the new century, and in the name of eradicating some evil forces and destroying weapons of mass destruction, it will achieve the purpose of establishing new hegemony, oil hegemony, geopolitical hegemony and civilization hub theory in the new century.

Comparison of military strength between these two countries!

Iraq

On February 7th, 65438, Iraq submitted a report on the development of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to the UN weapons inspection team. How strong Iraq's military strength is has become a concern. Today's China National Defense newspaper published an article, analyzing and revealing Iraqi military strength.

The army has 375,000 people, 4,600 main battle tanks and armored vehicles, more than 4,000 guns of various types, and a small number of Scud missiles.

199 1 Before the Gulf War, Iraq had considerable military strength. However, in the Gulf War, the multinational forces led by the United States annihilated a large number of Iraqi effective forces and destroyed a large number of advanced weapons of the Iraqi army. After the Gulf War, an economic blockade was imposed on Iraq in accordance with United Nations resolutions. It is difficult for Iraq to buy new weapons, and its military strength is greatly reduced compared with that before the Gulf War. But among the Arab countries in the Middle East, Iraq still has certain military strength.

There are 375,000 troops in Iraq, which are divided into three parts. The first part is the regular army, the second part is the * * * and the National Guard, and the third part is the special * * and the National Guard. The regular army of Iraq is composed of five armies, and the combat troops are composed of three armored divisions, three mechanized divisions and 1 1 infantry divisions. * * * and the National Guard * * * have two armies, and the combat troops * * * consist of three armored divisions, one mechanized division and two infantry divisions; Special * * * and National Guard * * * have four brigades. In addition, there are 7 assault brigades and 2 special brigades.

There are two armies in northern Iraq-1Army and the 5th Army. 1 Army and the 5th Army are deployed along the periphery of the Kurdish region, mainly responsible for the security of the Kurdish region and the northern oil fields. An army stationed in eastern Iraq, the 2nd Army, is deployed in eastern Baghdad, and is mainly responsible for preventing possible attacks by Iraqi opposition in Iran. There are two armies stationed in southern Iraq-the 3rd Army and the 4th Army, which are mainly responsible for the security of the southern border of Iraq and preventing the resistance activities of Shiite Muslims in the south.

* * * and the National Guard are stationed in northern and southern Iraq respectively. It is reported that once the United States carries out a military strike against Iraq, Iraq and the National Guard will deploy a most elite mechanized division and an armored division outside Baghdad to strengthen the protection of Baghdad. The strength of each division ranges from 1000 to 15000.

The headquarters of Tex * * and the National Guard are located in the capital Baghdad, and its standing army ranges from1.20,000 to1.50,000, which can be quickly mobilized to 20,000 to 25,000 in wartime. Special * * * and National Guard troops are mainly stationed in or near Baghdad. They are the only army troops that can be stationed in Baghdad except the special security service and the secret police, and are mainly responsible for the security of Baghdad and the presidential palace. Although the special forces and the National Guard are not equipped with a large number of heavy weapons such as tanks, most of their members come from tribal areas such as tikrit, which has long supported Saddam Hussein, and they are absolutely loyal to Saddam. In addition, Baghdad also has an air defense force headquarters responsible for ground air defense operations. Among them, a plainclothes battalion is responsible for the security of Saddam's presidential palace, Saddam International Airport and Saddam's residence, and also for Saddam's traffic safety.

The Iraqi army has 2,200 main battle tanks, including 700 advanced T-72s. 2,400 armored vehicles; 2050 guns, including 1900 towed artillery and 150 self-propelled artillery; There are about 500 rocket launchers; A small number of Scud missile launch vehicles.

The air force has 15 flight squadrons, equipped with 370 aircraft of various types and hundreds of helicopter gunships and transport planes.

The Iraqi Air Force * * * has 35,000 people, and * * * consists of 15 squadron. Because the United States and Britain have set up two "no-fly zones" in northern and southern Iraq, the air base in Iraq cannot be used. Therefore, the existing air force flying troops in Iraq can only be concentrated in several air bases near the capital Baghdad. These air bases mainly include Bakr (tikrit), Khadijah and Saddam. Among them, Bakr Air Force Base has 7 squadrons, Khadijah Air Force Base has 4 squadrons and combat training groups, Khadijah Air Force Base has/kloc-0 squadrons, and Saddam Air Force Base has 3 squadrons. In addition to the air bases mentioned above, the bases of the Iraqi Air Force also include Rashid and Abu Greb.

At present, the Iraqi Air Force is equipped with about 370 aircraft of various types. The specific equipment is roughly as follows: 6 bombers, mainly Tu -22 bombers; 96 combat/attack aircraft, including MIG -23, Mirage F 1EQ/BQ, Su -22/20, Su -25, Su -24, etc. 85 fighters, including MIG -2 1, MIG -25, MIG -29, etc. Five reconnaissance planes, all MIG -25 reconnaissance planes. In addition, the Iraqi Air Force has about 140 trainers and 4 1 transport aircraft.

The airborne weapons equipped by Iraqi Air Force combat aircraft include air-to-ground missiles and air-to-air missiles.

Due to long-term sanctions, the United States and Britain have established two "no-fly zones" in southern and northern Iraq. At present, the flight training of the Iraqi Air Force is very limited, and ordinary pilots can only fly for 20 hours a year. In addition, many combat aircraft cannot take off because of lack of spare parts. Therefore, the current combat effectiveness of the Iraqi air force is very low, and it is impossible to compete with the US and British air forces.

Western intelligence agencies believe that Iraq is already developing drones. They said that at present, Iraqi drones mainly include Al Yama -A reconnaissance drone, Malacu B drone, Salab B drone and L-29 drone.

In addition to the Iraqi air force, the Iraqi army also has a certain strength of the army aviation. This army aviation unit is organized into five aviation brigades and about 10 squadrons, which are stationed in Kirkuk, Baghdad, Basra, Sweniya and other bases. The Iraqi Army Air Force is equipped with more than 400 helicopters of various types, including about 100 armed helicopters and about 375 transport helicopters.

There are about 65,438+7,000 air defense troops, including more than 500 sets of surface-to-air missile launchers, more than 6,000 anti-aircraft guns, and a small number of naval and paramilitary forces.

Iraq's air defense forces are about 1.7 million. Due to repeated attacks by American and British air forces, Iraqi air defense forces have no advanced detection equipment. Air early warning mainly relies on outdated ground monitoring equipment. Iraqi air defense forces have four air defense centers. Iraqi air defense forces are equipped with more than 500 sets of surface-to-air missile launchers. In addition, Iraqi air defense forces are equipped with about 6,000 anti-aircraft guns.

Most of the Iraqi navy was destroyed in the Gulf War. At present, the Iraqi navy has only about 2,000 people, and the main ports are Basra and Zubair. It is equipped with about 6 patrol boats, 1 missile boat, 5 river patrol boats, 4 minesweepers and 3 support boats.

There are 45,000 to 50,000 paramilitary forces in Iraq, including about 1 0.5 million security forces, about 20,000 internal security policemen and about110,000 Saddam commandos.

United States of America

Strength: The total number of active personnel is 6.5438+0.3658 million.

army

47 1.7 million people. It consists of 3 group army headquarters, 4 arms (1 airborne troops), 10 combat divisions (2 armored divisions, 4 mechanized divisions, 2 light infantry divisions, 1 air assault division, 1 airborne division), 5 aviation brigades, 3 armored cavalry regiments and 6 artillery units. There are two others combined into one. The Chemical Division Command has six brigades to strengthen the peacetime comprehensive combat training of the Army National Guard.

Main battle tanks: M- 1Al and M-lA2, about 7,900.

Infantry fighting vehicles M-2 and M-3, ***67 10.

Armored transport vehicles: M- 1 13A2 and A3 15200 vehicles.

Armored reconnaissance vehicle: TPZ- 1 model 1 10 vehicle.

Various types of artillery: 6074 guns, including 277mm multi-barrel rocket launcher 1075 guns, self-propelled artillery 25 12 guns and traction 159 1 door.

Anti-tank missiles: more than 29,000, including 8,686 ceramic missiles and 20,000 dragon missiles.

Anti-aircraft missiles: 884 Avengers, 485 Patriots and some FIM-92A Stinger missiles.

Amphibious ship: 5 1.

Aircraft for various purposes: 249.

Helicopters: about 5,039, including 1502 armed helicopters. There are also seven drones "hunters".

navy

370,700 people. There are Pacific Fleet Command and Atlantic Fleet Command; Five combat fleets, namely, the Second Fleet (Atlantic), the Third Fleet (Pacific), the Fifth Fleet (Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, Red Sea), the Sixth Fleet (Mediterranean) and the Seventh Fleet (Western Pacific). There are also the Naval Transport Command and the Naval Special Operations Command.

Submarines: 74. Among them, there are 0/8 strategic submarines, 55 tactical submarines (33 nuclear-powered missile attack submarines and 22 nuclear-powered attack submarines) and other uses 1 ship.

Aircraft carrier: 12, including 8 Nimitz-class and 1 enterprise-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and 2 Kitty Hawk and 1 Kennedy-class conventional power aircraft carriers. 1 1 aircraft carrier wing, EA-6B wing is generally equipped with three F/A- 18 fighter attack squadrons, 1 F- 14 squadrons, 1 S-3B and EP-3 anti-submarine fighter squadrons./kloc

Missile cruisers: 27 (all Ticonderoga class).

Missile destroyers: 52 (29 Alli Burke class and 24 spruance class).

Missile frigates: 35 (all Perry-class)

Minesweepers: 27

Amphibious ship: 4 1.

The Military Transportation Command has about 1 10 ships under its jurisdiction, and 327 merchant ships can be mobilized.

The navy (including the Marine Corps) is equipped with 1456 combat aircraft and 543 armed helicopters.

Marine Corps

169800 people. There are 3 marine divisions, 3 service support brigades, 1 security camp, 1 security guard camp.

Main battle tank: M- 1A 1 403 vehicles.

Light armored vehicles: 734 vehicles

Amphibious armored vehicle: 132 1.

Traction artillery: 927 doors

Anti-tank missiles: 2,300

Anti-tank rocket launcher: 1300.

Recoilless gun: 1650 guns

Mortars: 586

pilot

36,400 people. Three active flying wings are formed, each wing is equipped with 130 fixed-wing aircraft and 167 helicopter.

air force

353,600 people. There are two headquarters: air combat command and air mobile command. The air combat commander has 4 air teams and 23 flying wings; The Air Mobility Command has two aviation teams, 13 Flying Wing. The U.S. Air Force began the structural reform from1June, 1999, and unified the active, reserve and national guard units into 10 "air and space expeditions", each of which was about1~15,000 men, and was on alert for three months1May.

Long-range bombers: 208, including 94 B-52H, 2 1 B-2A and 93 B- 1 B.

Reconnaissance planes: 83, including 32 U-2R/S, 16 SR-7 1 (sealed), 2 1 RC- 135 and 8 E-8C "Joint Stars". Command post machines: 40, including 33 E-3B/C, 3 EC- 135 and 4 E-4B.

Tactical aircraft: 2,529, including F-/KOOC-0/57/KOOC-0/7, F-/KOOC-0/6/KOOC-0/420, F-22A 6, F-/KOOC-0/KOOC-0/752, A-

Transport plane: about 1 100, including 126 C-5, 59 C- 17A, 65438 C- 14lB, 5265433 C- 130.

Tanker: 605.

Trainer: 1200 or above.

There are about 220 helicopters.

Strategic strength

It is under the jurisdiction of the US Strategic Command, and its strength is counted in the navy and air force. Mainly equipped with 432 submarine-launched ballistic missiles, deployed in 18 strategic missile nuclear submarines (10 "Ohio" class 6N-734 nuclear submarines, each carrying 24 Trident D-5 missiles; There are eight SSBN-726 nuclear submarines, each carrying 24 Trident C-4 missiles. 550 intercontinental ballistic missiles, including 500 "militia" and 50 "peacekeepers"; There are 208 strategic bombers, including 93 B- 1B (only for conventional combat missions), 94 B-52H and 21B..

coastguard

36,200 people. Among them, there are 6,000 civilian personnel. According to the law, it is an integral part of the armed forces, which is usually maintained and used by the Ministry of Transport, and its strength is not included in the reserve of the three armed forces. The budget approved 46,543.8 billion US dollars for fiscal year 2000 and 4.5 billion US dollars for fiscal year 2006. Main weapons and equipment: various types of ships 174, including 4 offshore patrol ships1ship (most of which can carry helicopters), 85 offshore patrol ships, 37 inland river management ships and 24 icebreakers), 53 aircraft and 80 helicopters.

Special operations forces

* * * 28,500 people. There are 65,438 army special operations troops+530,000 troops, and there are 5 special operations brigades (3 battalions per brigade). 1 Individual Mobile Infantry Regiment (including 3 battalions), 1 Special Operations Aviation Corps, 1 Psychological Warfare Brigade (including 5 battalions), 1 Private (including 5 companies), 1 Communication Battalion, 1 Support Battalion.

There are 4,000 naval special operations troops, including 1 headquarters, 1 operations center, 3 brigades, 6 troops, 6 "SEALs", 2 "SEAL" transport teams and 2 special boat squadrons.

The air force has 93 million special operations troops, including 1 headquarters, 1 flying wing and 14 squadron.

civilian personnel

700,200 people.

According to the statistics of employment departments, the army employed 2 1.99 million people, the navy (including marine corps) employed 1.95 million people, the air force employed 1.626 million people, and the Ministry of National Defense employed 1.84 million people.

Reserve personnel

About 900,000 people, including 865,200 selected reserves and about 30,000 to be prepared. Among the selected reservists, there are 205,000 army reservists, 90,300 naval reservists, 39,600 marine reservists and 73,700 air force reservists. Army National Guard: 350,000, Air National Guard 106600.

deploy

In fiscal year 2000, there were 930,800 troops stationed in the United States. There are about118,000 troops stationed in Europe, including 57,500 in Germany, 0,500 in Italy, 0,2500 in Britain, 2,30 in Spain, 2,040 in Turkey and 0 in Mediterranean. There are about 265,000 people in Pacific Headquarters, including 6.5438+0.6/kloc-0,000 in Alaska, 34,500 in Hawaii, 39,800 in Japan and 36,600 in South Korea. Guam has 37 million people, Diego Garcia has 670 people, Singapore 150 people, Thailand 120 people, and Pacific Fleet132,300 people; The central headquarters in the Middle East is probably 1. 50,000 people, including 6,000 in Kuwait, 5,700 in Saudi Arabia, 900 in Bahrain and 690 in Amman; 4 10 people in the southern headquarters of Honduras; The Joint Forces Command has 800 personnel in Bermuda, Cuba 1 100, Haiti 230, Iceland 2000 and Britain 1200; 654.38+200,000 people participated in peacekeeping operations around the world.

military base

By1February 1998, there were 969 US military facilities in China, including Army 184, Navy 164, Marine Corps 27, Air Force 96, and the rest were facilities of the Ministry of National Defense and reserve forces. There are 203 overseas military facilities in 32 countries or regions around the world, including Army 102, Navy 32, Marine Corps 9, Air Force 50, and the rest are Ministry of National Defense and joint logistics facilities.

Military service system

The voluntary military service system has been implemented since 1973.

A rank/rank

There are 6 levels and 25 grades: general officer level 5 (five-star general, general, lieutenant general, major general and brigadier general), school officer level 3 (colonel, lieutenant colonel and major), junior officer level 3 (captain, lieutenant and second lieutenant) and sergeant level 6 (first sergeant, second sergeant, third sergeant, staff sergeant and corporal).

The Army’s Day

Armed Forces Day, the third Saturday in May; April 6 th, American Army Day; U.S navy day, 65438+1October 27th; Air Force Day, the second Saturday in September.

Foreign military assistance

In fiscal year 2000, the United States' international development and military assistance was estimated to reach $654.38+046 billion, of which $605 million was used for United Nations peacekeeping operations, $50 million for international military education and training, and $4.798 billion for foreign military assistance. $265.438 million+$60 million for non-proliferation and counter-terrorism activities; International Drug Control Action165438+22 million USD; The "threat reduction plan" of the former Soviet Union countries is $985 million. In terms of foreign military assistance, Israel received $6,543.8+$920 million, Egypt received $6,543.8+$300 million, and Jordan received $75 million.

I'm talking about the cost of both sides after the war.

The Iraq war broke out on March 30th, 2003. /kloc-0 On May 30th, 2000, the allied forces occupied Baghdad, the capital, political, economic and cultural center of Iraq and the second largest city in West Asia, and overthrew Saddam Hussein's tyranny and dictatorship over Iraq for 24 years. If only from the perspective of overthrowing the tyrant Saddam Hussein, this has certain justice. But the purpose of Britain and other countries is to control Iraqi oil and plunder resources, which is also an unjust aggression. The United States claims that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction. Since the war in Afghanistan, anti-terrorism and the establishment of a "civilized world" have become the main tasks of the Bush administration. Many countries in the Middle East have become enemies of the United States, and the war on terrorism is getting closer and closer.

After May 2003 1, the task of the allied forces was to form a pro-American and pro-British Iraqi government as soon as possible, but not to establish a puppet regime.

Nearly three years after the establishment of the new Iraqi government, Iraq's democracy is bleak, because anti-American armed forces are rampant and killing people. At the same time, the allies are not good, and scandals continue. American and British troops often mistreat Iraqi prisoners of war, and the government immediately apologized and prosecuted the soldiers who abused prisoners. The protracted war in Iraq has cost the United States and Britain a heavy price. Only the domestic media criticized Bush and Blair, and the scandals of prisoner abuse kept them under great pressure.

The economic losses were painful, which not only almost emptied the national treasury, but also owed a lot of loans to the United Nations and other allies.

In the past three years, there have been 23,000 casualties (3,000 deaths and 20,000 injuries) in the US military alone. British troops also suffered thousands of casualties, and Japan, Australia, Canada and other allies also lost thousands.

Many countries withdrew their peacekeeping forces. The U.S. military has drawn up a timetable for victory and retreat many times, but by then, the allies will not be like that, because they have suffered heavy losses, sometimes winning and sometimes losing.

After the American troops occupied a place, the rear area was almost the same.

Losing a place, the warm weather in Iraq is sometimes not conducive to the US military's eastward expedition.

Look at Iraq. There were nearly 200,000 military and civilian casualties, and oil facilities were severely damaged. Sometimes, business transactions have exceeded profits, and economic losses have greatly exceeded allies.

But the United States is also a country that pays too much attention to the influence of public opinion. If you can't win the war for a long time and suffer heavy losses, then withdraw. The Korean War and the Vietnam War were the same.

However, Bush is a hero who never gives up. He has an indomitable will like an eagle, and he will never give up until Iraq becomes an ally of the United States, a democratic and economic ally of the United States.

The war in Iraq cannot be done quickly. The United States should start with resources, fight resource wars, and not be defeated by guerrilla warfare. It should be offensive and defensive, not a long-term endless attack. It should deliberately expose a major town controlled by the United States, Britain, the new Iraqi government and other countries from time to time to attract anti-American armed attacks. It is best to expose several well-defended major towns at the same time to attract anti-American armed attacks. It can not only disperse anti-American armed forces, but also attract anti-American armed attacks. It is necessary to wage economic war and consume Iraq's economy. Iraq is a developing country with a medium population and underdeveloped economy. Its total economic strength cannot be compared with that of Britain, the world's largest economic power and the world's fourth largest. This is the advantage of its allies. Iraq's military strength is worse than that of the United States and Britain, because it is only the world's 15 to the 20th military power, and weapons are not good. In terms of human heart, both sides are not good. On the whole, the Allies are definitely better.

If the allied forces can follow this method, at least 1 year and at most 2 years, they can wipe out the anti-American armed forces and win the Iraq war completely.

If the United States strikes Iran again, it will also crusade against Iran within three to five years after winning the Iraq war. These three to five years are the buffer period and the great recovery period of the American economy. Only in this way can the Middle East issue be solved.

It should be noted, however, that the allied forces must not be bestial, mistreat prisoners or rape women. Otherwise, those who lose people's hearts will lose the world and the road map for Middle East peace will be defiled.

In fact, after the Gulf War, the United States should catch up with the remnants of Iraq and destroy Saddam Hussein's regime, because the justice of plundering and expanding oil resources in the name of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait at that time was far greater than that of the current Iraq war, and international public opinion also favored allies and opposed Iraq on a large scale.

We wish Bush victory, but the price of victory must be heavy. I estimate that the allied forces lost at least 800,000 to 654.38+10,000 people, and Iraqi soldiers and civilians suffered even more, with casualties estimated at 300,000 to 500,000.

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