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Originally posted by theking
True...so I will use '91 then. Iraq had the fourth largest standing Army in the world...you know the same one that Iran fought against for eight years. It took the US and coalition forces...six weeks of an air war and 100 hours of a ground war to decimate the fourth largest standing Army in the world. Better?
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It may have been the 4th largest army, but it's well known that Iraq's military (and economy) was in very poor shape after the Iran-Iraq war, which is one of the reasons both countries ended the war. They were both worn down from nearly a decade of fighting.