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| Author | : J. E. Peterson |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 145 |
| Release | : 2014-11-17 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1633559262 |
Tensions in the Gulf, 1978-1991 examines events in the Persian Gulf region from the time Saddam Hussein came to power in Iraq through the conclusion of the 1991 Gulf War.
| Author | : David Downing |
| Publisher | : Heinemann-Raintree Library |
| Total Pages | : 64 |
| Release | : 2005-11-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781410916204 |
The Middle East is a hotbed of conflict in today's world. This book answers key questions about the region's history, such as: Why were the Middle East's borders decided by European powers? In what ways have the decisions of the past led to today's conflicts? Why do some people in the Middle East distrust the West?
| Author | : Robert L. Pfaltzgraff |
| Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 387 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Air power |
| ISBN | : 1428992812 |
This collection of essays reflects the proceedings of a 1991 conference on "The United States Air Force: Aerospace Challenges and Missions in the 1990s," sponsored by the USAF and Tufts University. The 20 contributors comment on the pivotal role of airpower in the war with Iraq and address issues and choices facing the USAF, such as the factors that are reshaping strategies and missions, the future role and structure of airpower as an element of US power projection, and the aerospace industry's views on what the Air Force of the future will set as its acquisition priorities and strategies. The authors agree that aerospace forces will be an essential and formidable tool in US security policies into the next century. The contributors include academics, high-level military leaders, government officials, journalists, and top executives from aerospace and defense contractors.
| Author | : F. Gregory Gause, III |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 367 |
| Release | : 2009-11-19 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1107469163 |
Gregory Gause's masterful book is the first to offer a comprehensive account of the international politics in the Persian Gulf across nearly four decades. The story begins in 1971 when Great Britain ended its protectorate relations with the smaller states of the lower Gulf. It traces developments in the region from the oil 'revolution' of 1973–4 through the Iranian revolution, the Iran-Iraq war and the Gulf war of 1990–1 to the toppling of Saddam Hussein in the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, bringing the story of Gulf regional politics up to 2008. The book highlights transnational identity issues, regime security and the politics of the world oil market, and charts the changing mix of interests and ambitions driving American policy. The author brings his experience as a scholar and commentator on the Gulf to this riveting account of one of the most politically volatile regions on earth.
| Author | : Kanan Makiya |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780393311419 |
Hailed as one of the most important books ever written on the state of the modern Middle East, this brave and controversial work confronts the rhetoric ofArab and pro-Arab intellectuals with the realities of political brutality in the Arab world.
| Author | : Williamson Murray |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 413 |
| Release | : 2014-09-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1139993216 |
The Iran-Iraq War is one of the largest, yet least documented conflicts in the history of the Middle East. Drawing from an extensive cache of captured Iraqi government records, this book is the first comprehensive military and strategic account of the war through the lens of the Iraqi regime and its senior military commanders. It explores the rationale and decision-making processes that drove the Iraqis as they grappled with challenges that, at times, threatened their existence. Beginning with the bizarre lack of planning by the Iraqis in their invasion of Iran, the authors reveal Saddam's desperate attempts to improve the competence of an officer corps that he had purged to safeguard its loyalty to his tyranny, and then to weather the storm of suicidal attacks by Iranian religious revolutionaries. This is a unique and important contribution to our understanding of the history of war and the contemporary Middle East.
| Author | : Douglas Kellner |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 431 |
| Release | : 2019-06-26 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1000304329 |
Douglas Kellner's Persian Gulf TV War attacks the myths, disinformation, and propaganda disseminated during the Gulf war. At once a work of social theory, media criticism, and political history, this book demonstrates how television served as a conduit for George Bush's war policies while silencing anti-war voices and foregoing spirited discussion of the complex issues involved. In so doing, the medium failed to assume its democratic responsibilities of adequately informing the American public and debating issues of common concern. Kellner analyzes the dominant frames through which television presented the war and focuses on the propaganda that sold the war to the public–one of the great media spectacles and public relations campaigns of the post-World War II era. In the spirit of Orwell and Marcuse, Kellner studies the language surrounding the Gulf war and the cynical politics of distortion and disinformation that shaped the mainstream media version of the war, how the Bush administration and Pentagon manipulated the media, and why a majority of the American public accepted the war as just and moral.
| Author | : Diane T. Putney |
| Publisher | : CreateSpace |
| Total Pages | : 494 |
| Release | : 2015-02-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781507814796 |
American air power is a dominant force in today's world. Its ascendancy, evolving in the half century since the end of World War II, became evident during the first Gulf War. Although a great deal has been written about military operations in Desert Shield and Desert Storm, this deeply researched volume by Dr. Diane Putney probes the little-known story of how the Gulf War air campaign plan came to fruition. Based on archival documentation and interviews with USAF planners, this work takes the reader into the planning cells where the difficult work of building an air campaign plan was accomplished on an around-the-clock basis. The tension among air planners is palpable as Dr. Putney traces the incremental progress and friction along the way. The author places the complexities of the planning process within the con- text of coalition objectives. All the major players are here: President George H. W. Bush, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, General Colin Powell, General Chuck Horner, and Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney. The air planning process generated much debate and friction, but resulted in great success - a 43-day conflict with minimum casualties. Dr. Putney's rendering of this behind-the-scenes evolution of the planning process, in its complexity and even suspense, provides a fascinating window into how wars are planned and fought today and what might be the implications for the future.
| Author | : Johan M. Havenaar |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2002-08-31 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780306467844 |
This book presents an overview of research on the psychological and societal consequences of ecological disasters. It gives in-depth case studies on most of the major incidents that have occurred in the 1980s and 1990s. It summarizes the accumulated knowledge in this area and identifies areas of future research. It can serve as a resource for practitioners and policymakers dealing with current and future ecological calamities and may help them to define an adequate response to the complex public health challenges these incidents represent.
