Was the Highway of Death or the Bulldozer Assault from the 1991 Gulf War more brutal?

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

For those of you who don't know:

The Bulldozer assault refers to the first day of the ground war. Saddam's forces dug a line of trenches along the Kuwait Saudi border. Instead of having US soldiers engage in the brutal close quarters combat associated with trench warfare, the Americans had tanks and infantry fighting vehicles pin the Iraqis down in the trenches and while they were taking cover, armored bulldozers drove up to the trenches and ploughed sand and dirt in them burying the defenders alive.

The Highway of Death refers to the disastrous retreat by the Iraqi Army from Kuwait City. A large convoy of Iraqi vehicles was stretched miles out of Kuwait. Coalition aircraft struck the vehicles in front and back of the convoy trapping the rest and for 2 days straight, combat aircraft bombed and strafed the remaining vehicles until there was nothing but burnt-out wrecks.

a lot of people say it was a war crime but there's a difference between a surrendering enemy and a retreating one. The point of a retreat is to regroup and fight at a more defensible position, so it was perfectly legal.

Although I can't help but draw parallels to the current conflict in Ukraine. Russians say that "this isn't a war between Russia and Ukraine, it's a war between Russian and the US".

Yeah, no. They're still using trench warfare in Ukraine, and I bet Apache gunship pilots were drooling watching footage of that stalled 40-mile convoy outside Kiev.

Bulldozer Assault

Highway of Death

[ChefPapiChulo]

This is a perfect example of what it would look like if another standing army challenged the US.

and to the idiots who say “well the us lost to the Vietnamese” or Iraq, I’d say they’re idiots not even worth acknowledging.

[Guy13]

Bulldozer