第二次海湾战争给海湾地区带来的灾难,使海湾合作委员会诸国(即科威特、沙特阿拉伯、阿拉伯联合酋长国和阿曼)认识到自己的不利处境。它们在回顾了过去的国防政策之后,采取了大力加强军事力量的措施,以抵御外来的侵略。现分别叙述如下: 一、科威特 1990年在伊拉克人侵科威特时,科威特的武装部队就已化为乌有。它的军事设施,包括空军基地、通信设施以及指挥和控制中心等都被伊拉克军队推毁。实力不强的科威特旅的人员不是逃往沙特阿拉伯,就是在抵抗中消失,大部装备落入伊拉克人手中,并入他们的武 The catastrophe that the Second Gulf War brought to the Gulf region made the GCC countries (namely, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman) aware of their disadvantage. After reviewing past national defense policies, they took measures that greatly strengthened their military capabilities to resist external aggression. The differences are as follows: I. Kuwait’s armed forces in Kuwait were no longer in use when Kuwait invaded Kuwait in Iraq in 1990. Its military facilities, including its air base, communications facilities and command and control centers, were destroyed by the Iraqi military. The not-so-powerful Kuwaiti brigade personnel either flee to Saudi Arabia or disappear in resistance and most of the equipment falls into the hands of Iraqis and join them