The Iraqi armed forces entered the Gulf War with extensive warfare experience after concluding an eight year war with Iran, while coalition troops were largely inexperienced, with Britain’s recent Falklands fighting conducted by Marines and Paratroopers rather than tanks and mechanized infantry, Syrian forces having fought in Lebanon but not the 9th Division, the United States having wound down its involvement in Vietnam, and among the Gulf states only the Omani Army having anything approaching extensive combat experience. Iraq’s experience proved of little use because it came from a positional war of wearing down Iranian forces, a background that became a positive disadvantage in a mobile campaign and left them burdened with bad habits rather than helped by hard-won practice. Of Iraq’s 545,000 troops in the Kuwait theater of operations, about 100,000 are believed to have lost their lives, and of Iraq’s 44 Army divisions, 42 were found to be combat ineffective by the end of the war. Estimated equipment losses by the end of the war were: Iraqi tanks 4,000 lost with 4230 on hand versus coalition tanks 4 lost with 3360 on hand; Iraqi artillery 2,140 lost with 3,110 on hand versus coalition artillery 1 lost with 3,633 on hand; Iraqi armored personal carriers 1,856 lost with 2,870 on hand versus coalition 9 lost with 4,050 on hand; Iraqi helicopters 7 lost with 160 on hand versus coalition 17 lost with 1,959 on hand; and Iraqi aircraft 240 lost with 800 on hand versus coalition 44 lost with 2,600 on hand.