Operation Desert Sabre

Operation "Desert Sabre" was the codename for the combined allied ground assault during the first Gulf War. It consisted of about 650,000 combined U.N. Troops and about 550,000 Iraqis. The U.N. side had approximately 3,000 tanks to the Iraqi's 5,000. During this ground assault the Iraqi's casualties were about 90,000 men and some estimates say 4,000 tanks. The U.N. force had about 700 casualties with about 25 tanks lost.{| class="wikitable"
-! Category! U.N. Strength! U.N. Casualties! % of loss! Iraqi Coalition Strength! Iraqi Casualties! % of loss
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Infantry
650,000
700
.11%
550,000
90,000
16.3%
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Tanks
3,000
25
.1%
5,000
4,000
80%
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"Note: Numbers are estimates."