the us had saudi arabia as a local staging ground and iraq had no means to interfere with us logistics because they didn't have any satellite intel and their only long range weapons were a handful of wildly inaccurate scud missiles. moving lots of stuff halfway across the world is not difficult if you have a friendly port to unload in and no one is shooting at you while you do it. private companies do it all the time. is denmark a military superpower because of maersk? iraq had zero foreign support and their air defense systems were old 60s era soviet systems that were designed before the vietnam/yom kippur experience and had been proven to be already obsolete in 1983 by the israelis in operation mole cricket 19.
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