Talk:Gulf War

Italien

Why there is no mention about involvement of italy in the conflict? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.48.73.118 (talk) 21:07, 29 November 2016

Air bombardment claims

The site states "For 42 consecutive days and nights, the coalition forces subjected Iraq to the most intensive air bombardment in military history. The coalition flew over 100,000 sorties dropping 88,500 tons of bombs…" The data may be true, but the claim of "most intensive air bombardment in military history" is debatable and entirely subjective depending on what they are basing that claim on. Intensive means concentrated, but how are they determining that, by number/tonnage/area/sorties/time?

Until there is something to corroborate the claim, “the most” should either be changed to “one of the most” or “an” (with "in military history" removed). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.45.115.4 (talk) 09:53, 4 September 2017‎ (UTC)

Misleading Title

This article, by its name, pretends to be about the first "Gulf War" -- yet the original Persian Gulf conflict of the modern era, that was globally referred to as the "Gulf War," happened previously in the war between Iraq and Iran, in the 1980s.

And it was not a minor conflict -- resulting in the deaths of many thousands, disrupting the global oil trade, hardening the infamous dictatorships in both countries (helping to set the stage for the subsequent "Gulf War" with the U.S. and western powers, and other tensions and incidents), and even resulting in a supposedly accidental Iraqi air attack on a U.S. ship, the USS Stark.

A Western-centric perspective on the Middle East commonly results in Western writers mistakenly overlooking the first major Gulf conflict, and instead referring to the first major Gulf conflict with the United States and European nations as the so-called First Gulf War -- and the title of this article appears to reflect that erroneously narcissistic/myopic-Western perspective.

It should be titled "Second Gulf War," in my humble opinion.

~ Penlite (talk) 11:02, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

Gulf Invasion of 1990-91 would be the only acceptable title. It is baffling to see this being called simply Gulf War. Tallard (talk) 17:12, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

16th vs 17th why the back and forth

The article keeps bouncing around in various paragraphs between 16th and 17th for the aerial bombing. Is it vandalism? Tallard (talk) 17:09, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

The name is incorrect

If its name is Gulf, why does it say Persian Gulf here? مصطفی کوهستانی (talk) 11:13, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

@مصطفی کوهستانی The article title is based on Wikipedia:Article titles policy — DaxServer (t · m · c) 11:18, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

There are many "Gulf", as there are many seas. Can you name a sea that has no suffix? and just call it "Sea".

So how do you say the Persian Gulf, Gulf?

"Gulf War" is as ridiculous as saying "Sea War". مصطفی کوهستانی (talk) 12:09, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

مصطفی کوهستانی (talk) 14:00, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 March 2023

Desert Strike is most likely the first video game ever made about the Gulf War. It should be included in the Popular culture section, thanks! BlazeFielding BlazeFielding (talk) 08:03, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. This needs secondary sources to demonstrate that it is WP:DUE. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 13:42, 23 March 2023 (UTC)