The coalition commenced hostilities in January 1991, resulting in a decisive victory for the U. S. led coalition forces, which drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait with minimal coalition deaths.

The Allies won with minimal losses while inflicting heavy losses on the Iraqi Army.

The peninsula fell quickly with minimal Iraqi resistance, although unexpected fierce resistance in Umm Qasr required several days ' fighting before the town was secured.

Nevertheless, they caused relatively minimal damage, and the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force retaliated fiercely to the invasion, flying strikes involving up to 140 McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom IIs against main Iraqi airfields, oil industry installations, and communications sites.

On most Linux distributions the package management system can download and install MySQL with minimal effort, though further configuration is often required to adjust security and optimization settings.

Soon after the liberation of this prominent political hostage, the Vice President of Colombia Francisco Santos Calderón called Latin America's biggest guerrilla group a " paper tiger " with little control of the nation's territory, adding that " they have really been diminished to the point where we can say they are a minimal threat to Colombian security ", and that " After six years of going after them, reducing their income and promoting reinsertion of most of their members, they look like a paper tiger.

Base and aircraft security standards were minimal.

The school maintains minimal security measures in order to promote attitudes of trust and responsibility on campus.

The open platform, while exposed to the elements, allowed boarding and alighting away from stops ; and the presence of a conductor allowed minimal boarding time and optimal security, but with greater labour costs.

For performance reasons, designers of stream ciphers try to keep that number of rounds as small as possible, but because determining the minimal secure number of rounds for stream ciphers is not a trivial task, and considering other issues such as entropy loss, unique to each cipher construction, related-IVs and other IV-related attacks are a known security issue for stream ciphers, which makes IV loading in stream ciphers a serious concern and a subject of ongoing research.

In court, Durst testified he had warned the concert's organizers Aaron Jackson, Will Pearce and Amar Tailor and promoter Vivian Lees of the potential dangers of such minimal security.

While the House of Commons entrance was surrounded by railings, it offered only minimal parking space and minimal security from attack, and practically no means of escape in the event of an attack.

There was some security at Number 10 but it was minimal: a police officer standing guard.

For the legal aspects of authentication, authorization and billing of the visiting subscriber, the roaming agreements typically can comprise minimal safety standards, as e. g. location update procedures or financial security or warranty procedures.

Avi Rubin, Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and Technical Director of the Information Security Institute has analyzed the source code used in these voting machines and reports " this voting system is far below even the most minimal security standards applicable in other contexts.

Prior to the 1970s American airports had minimal security arrangements to prevent aircraft hijackings.

Official eCos maintainers do not appear to monitor FreeBSD or KAME for security or stability updates, but rather rely on minimal and insufficient bug reports from users of eCos.

While receiving only minimal pensions, few have been able to find jobs except as laborers or security guards.

Although the chance of a prison escape is minimal, particularly in a maximum security prison, it could occur and crimes against those living close by would increase.

* October 25 – General Maurice Gamelin, Frances Chief of Staff of National Defense, puts before Prime Minister of France Édouard Daladier an assessment stating that Germany has 5, 000 aircraft and France only 500, that the British Royal Air Force and French Air Force combined cannot match the German Luftwaffe, and that France cannot hope for even minimal security against German air attack before 1940 unless it embarks on a large, new aircraft procurement program.

After the hurricane, only a minimal caretaker staff remained to ensure the security of the site and Fort McRee once again fell into disuse.

After the hurricane, only a minimal caretaker staff remained to ensure the security of the site.

The program seeks to identify passengers who pose a minimal security risk, and then provide those passengers an enhanced security checkpoint experience.

* Three served some time in a minimal security facility, working half the time outside, and receiving a criminal record.

* One served time in San Quentin, then transferred to a minimal security facility, with a criminal record.

Indeed, it provides another layer of security for minimal overhead.

These “ rate-distortion ” models suggest that the genetic code originated as a result of the interplay of the three conflicting evolutionary forces: the needs for diverse amino-acids, for error-tolerance and for minimal cost of resources.

Rutherford scattering is also sometimes referred to as Coulomb scattering because it relies only upon static electric ( Coulomb ) forces, and the minimal distance between particles is set only by this potential.

The United Front ( Northern Alliance ) and SAD and Special Forces combined to overthrow the Taliban with minimal coalition casualties, and without the use of international conventional ground forces.

Ten years later, despite publicly opposing the US led war on Iraq, the UAE permitted a minimal amount of US forces to support the operation from the Al Dhafra air base, Jebel Ali, and naval facilities at Fujairah.

French and Savoyard troops numbering over 50, 000, under the command of Charles Emmanuel, entered Milanese territory as early as October 24, against minimal resistance, as the Austrian forces in the duchy numbered only about 12, 000.

* Appius Claudius Caudex leads his forces to Messina, and as the Mamertines have convinced the Carthaginians to withdraw, he meets with only minimal resistance.

At Bordeaux, and again at the Battle of the River Garonne, the Umayyad forces were cavalry, not infantry, and were not taken by surprise, and given a chance to mass for battle, which led to the devastation of Odo's army, almost all of whom were killed with minimal losses to the Muslims.

* Article 3 states that even where there is not a conflict of international character the parties must as a minimum adhere to minimal protections described as: noncombatants, members of armed forces who have laid down their arms, and combatants who are hors de combat ( out of the fight ) due to wounds, detention, or any other cause shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, with the following prohibitions:

Despite Taliban and other anti-government forces stating they intended to disrupt the elections, the polling day went by with minimal violence.

On December 7, 1862, Union and Confederate forces clashed along the Arkansas River in and around the town of Van Buren resulting in a defeat for the Confederate army driving them south across the river with minimal casualties, however the Union forces captured 100 prisoners, as stated in a battle report by Samuel R. Curtis, Major General of the Union forces.

This creates some internal pressure and forces liquid surfaces to contract to the minimal area.

Too much of either helm is not good, since it forces the helmsman to hold the rudder deflected to counter it, thus inducing extra drag beyond what a vessel with neutral or minimal helm would experience.

The Prussians had only minimal naval forces and also could not assist.

Note, they have a minimal effect on the contractile forces of the ventricular muscle due to sparse innervation of the ventricles from the parasympathetic nervous system.

The profile of the fort became very low indeed, surrounded outside the ditch by a gently sloping open area so as to eliminate possible cover for enemy forces, while the fort itself provided a minimal target for enemy fire.

Gowron makes his final appearances in " When It Rains ..." and " Tacking Into the Wind ", where he assumes direct command of Klingon military forces and launches multiple reckless attacks with minimal success.

When Scipio left Massilia ( Marseilles ) he had no or minimal forces.

The French maintained a minimal naval presence, with the bulk of their forces in Mexico trying to bolster Emperor Maximilian's unstable regime.

Her most substantial work is Green Alternatives to Globalisation: A Manifesto ( co-authored with Mike Woodin ), which advocates localisation of economies based on minimal trade and greater social and environmental concern, in opposition to neo-liberal, market-led forces of globalisation.

As the only Allied ground commander without a subordinate contingent of infantry forces from his own army, Stilwell was aware that he would have minimal influence upon Allied ground strategy in Burma unless he could gain command of the Marauders.