Coalition By Number of Military Personnel
List of Coalition forces by number of military personnel | ||
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Country | Number of Personnel | Comments / Major Events |
United States | 575,000 - 697,000 | Operation Desert Shield Battle of Khafji Battle of 73 Easting Battle of Al Busayyah Battle of Phase Line Bullet Battle of Medina Ridge Battle of Wadi Al-Batin Battle of Norfolk Operation Desert Storm |
Saudi Arabia | 60,000 - 100,000 | Operation Desert Shield Battle of Khafji Operation Desert Storm |
United Kingdom | 53,462 | Operation Granby |
Egypt | 20,000 | Operation Desert Storm |
France | 18,000 | Opération Daguet |
Syria | 14,500 | Operation Desert Storm |
Morocco | 13,000 | Security Personnel |
Kuwait | 9,900 | Invasion of Kuwait Operation Desert Storm |
Oman | 6,300 | Operation Desert Storm |
Pakistan | 4,900 - 5,500 | Backup team |
Canada | 4,500 | Operation FRICTION |
United Arab Emirates | 4,300 | Operation Desert Storm |
Qatar | 2,600 | Battle of Khafji |
Bangladesh | 2,200 | (Operation Moru-prantar) Security Personnel including 2 field Ambulance teams |
Italy | 1,200 | Deployed Panavia Tornado strike attack aircraft, Naval deployment |
Australia | 700 | Australian contribution to the 1991 Gulf War |
Netherlands | 700 | Naval deployment; Air Force deployments of Surface-to-Air Missiles to Turkey and Israel |
Niger | 600 | Patroller group |
Sweden | 525 | Field hospital |
Argentina | 500 | Navy / Air Force |
Senegal | 500 | Base Guards |
Spain | 500 on the field / 3,000 off the coast | Engineers |
Bahrain | 400 | Base Guards |
Belgium | 400 | Base Engineers |
Poland | 319 | Operation Simoom Naval & medical deployment |
South Korea | 314 | Medical & transportation support |
Czechoslovakia | 200 | Operation Desert Shield Operation Desert Storm Czechoslovakia in the Gulf War |
Greece | 200 | Pilots |
Denmark | 100 | HDMS Olfert Fischer (Niels Juel Class Korvet) |
New Zealand | 100 | 2 C-130 Hercules transporter aircraft |
Hungary | 50 | |
Norway | 50 | Naval & medical deployment |
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