[BushMeister]

The final Mid-Feb 1991 figure for U.S. personnel in the Gulf I'm finding is 540,000. Some 205,000 allied troops were also in theater.

That 540,000 figure is almost exactly equal to the U.S. peak troop deployment in Vietnam.

[AlextheWise1]

This is an absurd amount of men and equitment. We used so much last time because they were the worlds 4th or something largest army, and we did not know our equitment could go through soviet junk like butter. We are probably twice as lethal and manuverable now. We could have taken saddam in november. This is either misdirection to make it seem like the attack is further off than it is, we are going to take out the whole vipers nest at once, or they are really going to South Korea.