# How Gulf War 2 was won **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 28, 2003, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gulf-war-2-was-won/177980 "2003-05-28T09:31:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reuben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@Reuben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reuben)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gulf-war-2-was-won/177980/1 "2003-05-28T09:31:07Z")
For the geeks among us, here’s [a very interesting article](http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.06/battlefield_pr.html) from [Wired.com](http://Wired.com) about the technology used by US troops in the war. Some very amusing aspects… > [@](#): > > “What’s funny about using Microsoft Chat,” he adds with a sly smile, “is that everybody has to choose an icon to represent themselves. Some of these guys haven’t bothered, so the program assigns them one. We’ll be in the middle of a battle and a bunch of field artillery colonels will come online in the form of these big-breasted blondes. We’ve got a few space aliens, too.” ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gulf-war-2-was-won/177980/2 "2003-05-28T10:06:09Z")
Heh! The icing on the cake there. Funny. After watching some news breakdown last night, I mentioned to my father how clear the divide was between the bedraggled Iraqi forces with their ill-fitting cotton fatigues, Syrian boots, and cheap Chinese stampings-and-junkwood AK-47’s compared to the the U.S. forces in their tough denim fatigues, kevlar armour, carbon-fiber composite helmets (complete with digital-radio insert), lightweight, rugged and accurite high-velocity rifles. My dad said something like: "Yeah, it was the stormtroopers from “Star Wars” versus “The Little Rascals”. My dad is the coolest! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-gulf-war-2-was-won/177980/3 "2003-05-28T13:01:34Z")
Um… he does realise that the stormtroopers from Star Wars ended up as the Bad Guys, right?