当地时间 3月 2 0日 5时 35分 (北京时间 1 0时 35分 ) ,美军向伊拉克首都巴格达南部发射“战斧”式巡航导弹 40余枚 ,伊拉克战争正式爆发。根据所掌握资料并综合各方报道 ,截至 3月底 ,双方参战兵力如下 :美英联军参战兵力及军事基地　　 (一 )美国参战部队 ,约 2 8万人。1 . At 05:35 a.m. on March 20 (Beijing time 1:10 a.m.), the U.S. troops fired more than 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the southern Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and the Iraq war officially broke out. According to the information we have gathered and comprehensively reported by all parties, as of the end of March, the participating troops of both sides are as follows: U.S.-British coalition forces and military bases (1) US combat troops, about 28,000. 1 .