Kuwait's larger neighbour, Iraq, had issued demands for territory to be surrendered to its control and had been staging a military buildup on the border between the two nations for weeks. طلب العراق الجار الأكبر للكويت الاستسلام لسيطرته وكان قد حشد جيشه على الحدود بين البلدين لمدة أسابيع.
A vast military buildup of armored divisions... missiles and floating fortresses, accompanied by a fourfold increase... in the number of radio-controlled rocket bombs... directed at the most densely populated areas of Airstrip One.... تعزيز عسكري سريع للوحدات المدرعه. بصورايخ و سفن بحريه بزيادة أربعة اضعاف في عدد القنابل الصاروخيه المتحكم بها بموجات الراديو