Operation Friction

Operation Friction
Part of the Gulf War
Date August 1990 – February 1991 Location Kuwait, Iraq, Persian Gulf Result Canadian victory
Belligerents
Canada	Iraq Republic of Kuwait
Commanders and leaders
Elizabeth II Brian Mulroney Bill McKnight Kim Campbell John de Chastelain Charles Thomas John Rogers Anderson David Huddleston	Saddam Hussein Ali Hassan al-Majid Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri Salah Aboud Mahmoud Hussein Kamel al-Majid Abid Hamid Mahmud Alaa Hussein Ali
Strength
4,500 deployed troops	650,000 frontline troops 1,000,000 reserves

Operation Friction
Part of the Gulf War
Location	Kuwait, Iraq, Persian Gulf
Objective	Liberation of Kuwait
Date	August 1990 – February 1991
Executed by	Canada
Outcome	Coalition victory

Operation Friction was a Canadian military operation that saw the contribution of 4,500 Canadian Forces personnel to the 1991 Gulf War. The larger US components were Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.

Canada suffered no casualties during the conflict but since its end many veterans have complained of suffering from Gulf War syndrome.

Operation Friction initially saw MARCOM order the destroyers HMCS Terra Nova and HMCS Athabaskan to assist with enforcing the United Nations trade blockade against Iraq. The supply ship HMCS Protecteur was deployed with the destroyers to provide underway replenishment as well as command/control and at-sea medical services to the small task force which operated in the Persian Gulf, Straits of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman.

Following UN authorization of military force to remove Iraq from occupied territory in Kuwait, AIRCOM deployed two CF-18 Hornet squadrons with support personnel from CFB Baden-Soellingen in Germany to a temporary base in Qatar. Force Mobile Command also sent a large field hospital to Qatar to deal with casualties from the expected ground war.

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