The United States military has used submunitions in many conflict zones, including Vietnam, Laos, the Persian Gulf and the former Yugoslavia. They were also used early on in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as in naval missile strikes in Yemen. The weapons have also harmed American forces in almost every war they have used them in. In 1991, during the first Persian Gulf war, the Army fired more than 17,000 cluster-munition rockets into Iraq and Kuwait, each containing 644 submunitions. American forces also dropped tens of thousands more cluster bombs on and fired tens of thousands of submunition artillery rounds at Iraqi forces.

Source: New York Times October 30, 2018 09:00 UTC