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The Gulf War of 1991 was similar in some respects in thatits aims were to evict Saddam Hussein's troops from Kuwait and damage their capabilityso much that they would cease to be a threat to the region.
By so doing, the United States could make clear thatits "national" missile defense system will actually be a global capability, thus denying critics and those who would divide America from her allies the argument that the former will be protected at the latters' expense.