January 16-17, 1991
<span>United Nations coalition forces launch Operation Desert Storm when Saddam Hussein refuses to withdraw from Kuwait.</span>
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Britain incurred 715,000 military deaths (with more than twice that number wounded), the destruction of 3.6% of its human capital, 10% of its domestic and 24% of its overseas assets, and spent well over 25% of its GDP on the war effort between 1915 and 1918 (Broadberry and Harrison, 2005).
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