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The Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Shield (2 ... On 2 August 1990 the Iraqi Army invaded and occupied Kuwait, which was ... On the 23rd, the CIA reported that Iraq had moved 30,000 troops to the Iraq-Kuwait border, and the US naval fleet in the Persian Gulf was placed on alert.
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