Note also that that getting the help, domestic or imported, to defend the homestead is a longstanding tradition. A squire had almost no chance of being promoted to the equivalent of his liege lord’s position, but he risked his life in battle, anyway. Similar relationships exist around the world. Even in Kuwait, it’s suggested that thousands of Palestinians did just that, although the headline news was that Arafat endorsed Saddam’s invasion.
In total, 1,000 Kuwaitis were killed in combat and 7 months of occupation. That’s not a small number, out of the 500,000 native Kuwaitis. In % terms, it’s similar to the US death toll from WWII ops in Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Kuwait#Invasion
[Another crackdown occurred in January and February 1991. Iraqi forces publicly executed suspected members of the Kuwaiti resistance. Kuwaitis were kidnapped, their corpses later deposited in front of their family homes. The bodies of executed Kuwaiti resistance members showed evidence of different kinds of torture, including beating, electrical shocking, and fingernail removal.[43] Some 5,000 Palestinians living in Kuwait were arrested for their activities in support of the resistance, and Palestinian support was enough to cause Iraqi officials to threaten Palestinian leaders. Some Palestinians, however, supported Saddam’s regime because of sympathies with the Ba’ath party’s pugnacious anti-Israel stance. Palestinian members of the resistance sometimes disagreed with resistance tactics such as the boycott of government offices and commercial activity. The Kuwaiti resistance movement was suspicious of this Palestinian ambivalence, and in the weeks after Iraqi forces withdrew, the Kuwaiti government cracked down on Palestinians suspected of sympathizing with the Saddam regime.[50]]
I see a total of 420 being reported killed in the invasion.
They expected someone else to protect their monarchy (and we obliged).