How many U.S. troops were killed or injured by mines during the 1991 Gulf War?
Landmines were identified as the cause of eighty-one U.S. military casualties during the Gulf War. Landmines also caused twenty-two other U.S. military casualties (two killed, twenty injured) elsewhere between 1990 and 2001 (two in Egypt, ten in Germany, seven in South Korea, and three in the U.S.). To date, mines have killed one and wounded six U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan. Will the U.S. use mines again in Iraq? The last time the U.S. used antipersonnel mines was in the Gulf War in 1991 and according to a study recently released by the General Accounting Office, the Bush Administration is reported to be reviewing war plans that include plans for the use of mines. The Pentagon has said it “retains the right to use landmines.” The U.S. stockpiles approximately 90,000 antipersonnel mines in the Persian Gulf region in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Diego Garcia, a territory of the United Kingdom in the Indian Ocean. The antipersonnel mines currently stored there
