400 years before Christ was born, and well over a thousand years before Mohammed was born, an allied army of free men from western democracies invaded Iraq. The tyrant along the Tigris was cruel, powerful, and immensely wealthy. His subject armies outnumbered theirs literally a hundred to one. Yet the moment the westerners charged, his armies threw down their weapons and ran. They had no problem winning battles. The problem was how to get themselves out of there.

Desert Storm is the first half of the Anabasis, written by Xenophon the Athenian 400 years before Christ. Translated into plain English.