War in the Gulf, 1990-91 : the Iraq-Kuwait conflict and its implications / Majid Khadduri, Edmund Ghareeb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khadduri, Majid, 1908-

Contributor:

Ghareeb, Edmund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Persian Gulf War, 1991.

Military history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For most Americans, the war against Iraq lingers in memory as a vast morality play, a drama offering ready made heroes and villains: a glowering dictator in military uniform, hapless Kuwaiti refugees with tales of persecution, plucky pilots with high-tech wizardry, and a defiant American president, ringing Churchillian as he drew a line in the sand. But this characterization of the war is greatly oversimplified, a one-dimensional portrait, lacking in context and nuance. In War in the Gulf, 1990 91, eminent scholars Majid Khadduri and Edmund Ghareeb paint a very different picture, one that brin

Contents:

Contents; PART I: ORIGINS OF THE GULF WAR; PART II: IMMEDIATE CAUSES OF THE GULF WAR; PART III: STAGES OF THE GULF WAR; PART IV: RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE GULF WAR; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-294) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-992386-8

1-280-83509-5

9786610835096

0-19-802454-1

0-19-534877-X

OCLC:

435942110