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| Author | : John Prados |
| Publisher | : William Morrow |
| Total Pages | : 488 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
Provides an analysis of postwar covert activities by United States intelligence agencies, documenting the early days of the CIA and its operations.
| Author | : John Mueller |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 399 |
| Release | : 1994-06-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0226545652 |
The Persian Gulf crisis may well have been the most extensively polled episode in U.S. history as President Bush, his opponents, and even Saddam Hussein appealed to, and tried to influence, public opinion. As well documented as this phenomenon was, it remains largely unexplained. John Mueller provides an account of the complex relationship between American policy and public opinion during the Gulf crisis. Mueller analyzes key issues: the actual shallowness of public support for war; the effect of public opinion on the media (rather than the other way around); the use and misuse of polls by policy makers; the American popular focus on Hussein's ouster as a central purpose of the War; and the War's short-lived impact on voting. Of particular interest is Mueller's conclusion that Bush succeeded in leading the country to war by increasingly convincing the public that it was inevitable, rather than right or wise. Throughout, Mueller, author of War, Presidents, and Public Opinion, an analysis of public opinion during the Korean and Vietnam wars, places this analysis of the Gulf crisis in a broad political and military context, making comparisons to wars in Panama, Vietnam, Korea, and the Falklands, as well as to World War II and even the War of 1812. The book also collects nearly 300 tables charting public opinion through the Gulf crisis, making Policy and Opinion in the Gulf War an essential reference for anyone interested in recent American politics, foreign policy, public opinion, and survey research.
| Author | : Gary R. Hess |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2009-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0801891248 |
and the elder Bush, George W. Bush's White House actively sought to change the international order through preemptive war and aggressive democracy building." --Book Jacket.
| Author | : Jean Edward Smith |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0805013881 |
Study of the strengths and weaknesses of the president's control of foreign policy during the Persian Gulf War.
| Author | : John Prados |
| Publisher | : Rlpg/Galleys |
| Total Pages | : 818 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
In this newly revised and updated edition of his essential work, John Prados adds his concluding findings on U.S. covert operations in Angola, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, and the Persian Gulf. Acclaimed as a landmark book about U.S. intelligence agencies in the postwar era, Presidents' Secret Wars describes the secret warfare mounted by the president, the CIA, and the Pentagon--operations aimed at altering the destinies of nations and the course of global politics. Mr. Prados uses many newly declassified documents to open a vital window on this most secret aspect of American foreign policy. "A worthy and informative book"--Washington Post. "An important book....Prados's recounting of the often neglected early days of the C.I.A. and its covert activities is especially enlightening."--New York Times Book Review. "For those concerned with the study of intelligence, Presidents' Secret Wars will be highly useful because Dr. Prados has done serious archival research....This volume moves the study of covert operations to a higher and more sophisticated plane"--Intelligence and National Security.
| Author | : Svetlana Savranskaya |
| Publisher | : Central European University Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016-11-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9789633861691 |
This book publishes for the first time in print every word the American and Soviet leaders – Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, and George H.W. Bush – said to each other in their superpower summits from 1985 to 1991. Obtained by the authors through the Freedom of Information Act in the U.S., from the Gorbachev Foundation and the State Archive of the Russian Federation in Moscow, and from the personal donation of Anatoly Chernyaev, these previously Top Secret verbatim transcripts combine with key declassified preparatory and after-action documents from both sides to create a unique interactive documentary record of these historic highest-level talks – the conversations that ended the Cold War. The summits fueled a process of learning on both sides, as the authors argue in contextual essays on each summit and detailed headnotes on each document. Geneva 1985 and Reykjavik 1986 reduced Moscow's sense of threat and unleashed Reagan's inner abolitionist. Malta 1989 and Washington 1990 helped dampen any superpower sparks that might have flown in a time of revolutionary change in Eastern Europe, set off by Gorbachev and by Eastern Europeans (Solidarity, dissidents, reform Communists). The high level and scope of the dialogue between these world leaders was unprecedented, and is likely never to be repeated.
| Author | : Jerry M. Long |
| Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2004-04-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780292702646 |
From a Western perspective, the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991 largely fulfilled the first President Bush's objective: "In, out, do it, do it right, get gone. That's the message." But in the Arab world, the causes and consequences of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and his subsequent defeat by a U.S.-led coalition were never so clear-cut. The potent blend of Islam and Arab nationalism that Saddam forged to justify the unjustifiable—his invasion of a Muslim state—gained remarkable support among both Muslims and Arabs and continued to resonate in the Middle East long after the fighting ended. Indeed, as this study argues in passing, it became a significant strand in the tangled web of ideologies and actions that led to the attacks of 9/11. This landmark book offers the first in-depth investigation of how Saddam Hussein used Islam and Arab nationalism to legitimate his invasion of Kuwait in the eyes of fellow Muslims and Arabs, while delegitimating the actions of the U.S.-led coalition and its Arab members. Jerry M. Long addresses three fundamental issues: how extensively and in what specific ways Iraq appealed to Islam during the Kuwait crisis; how elites, Islamists, and the elusive Arab "street," both in and out of the coalition, responded to that appeal and why they responded as they did; and the longer-term effects that resulted from Saddam's strategy.
| Author | : Rick Atkinson |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 614 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780395710838 |
Integrating interviews with individuals ranging from senior policymakers to frontline soldiers, a look at the Persian Gulf War shows how the conflict transformed modern warfare.
| Author | : Ryan C. Crocker |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199796289 |
This book examines the war's origins, the war itself, its impact within the Arab world, and its long-term impact on military affairs and international relations.
