Kammala jumla mai zuwa: A cikin 1989, Beg ya tsara shirin gaggawa kuma ya shirya babban aikin soja, "Exercise Zarb-e-Momin", don tabbatar da maganganun haɗin gwiwar soja. Daya daga cikin abubuwan da suka faru a matsayin babban jami'in soji a karshen yakin Cold ya faru a 1990, lokacin da Iraqi
sun mamaye Kuwait a yayin rikicin siyasa tsakanin kasashen Larabawa biyu. Beg ya goyi bayan yakin da Amurka ta jagoranci kan Iraqi. A cikin wani bayani da aka baiwa Firayim Minista Benazir Bhutto da Shugaba Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Beg ya ci gaba da kimantawa cewa da zarar an shiga yaƙin ƙasa da sojojin Iraqi, sojojin Iraqi za su ci nasara sosai kuma su kori sojojin Amurka.