The Saddam Tapes

The Saddam Tapes
Author: Kevin M. Woods
Publisher:
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: HISTORY
ISBN: 9781139224840

"This study presents the annotated transcripts of Iraqi audio recordings of meetings between Saddam Hussein and his inner circle"--

The Saddam Tapes

The Saddam Tapes
Author: Kevin M. Woods
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2011-09-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1139505467

During the 2003 war that ended Saddam Hussein's regime, coalition forces captured thousands of hours of secret recordings of meetings, phone calls and conferences. Originally prepared by the Institute for Defense Analyses for the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, this study presents annotated transcripts of Iraqi audio recordings of meetings between Saddam Hussein and his inner circle. The Saddam Tapes, along with the much larger digital collection of captured records at the National Defense University's Conflict Records Research Center, will provide researchers with important insights into the inner workings of the regime and, it is hoped, the nature of authoritarian regimes more generally. The collection has implications for a range of historical questions. How did Saddam react to the pressures of his wars? How did he manage the Machiavellian world he created? How did he react to the signals and actions of the international community on matters of war and peace? Was there a difference between the public and the private Saddam on critical matters of state? A close examination of this material in the context of events and other available evidence will address these and other questions.

The Saddam Tapes

The Saddam Tapes
Author: Kevin M. Woods
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2011-09-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781107016859

During the 2003 war that ended Saddam Hussein's regime, coalition forces captured thousands of hours of secret recordings of meetings, phone calls, and conferences. Originally prepared by the Institute for Defense Analyses for the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, this study presents annotated transcripts of Iraqi audio recordings of meetings between Saddam Hussein and his inner circle. The Saddam Tapes, along with the much larger digital collection of captured records at the National Defense University's Conflict Records Research Center, will provide researchers with important insights into the inner workings of the regime and, it is hoped, the nature of authoritarian regimes more generally. The collection has implications for a range of historical questions. How did Saddam react to the pressures of his wars? How did he manage the Machiavellian world he created? How did he react to the signals and actions of the international community on matters of war and peace? Was there a difference between the public and the private Saddam on critical matters of state? A close examination of this material in the context of events and other available evidence will address these and other questions.

The Saddam Tapes: The mother of all battles

The Saddam Tapes: The mother of all battles
Author: Kevin M. Woods
Publisher:
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2011
Genre: Authoritarianism
ISBN: 9781107230552

"This study presents the annotated transcripts of Iraqi audio recordings of meetings between Saddam Hussein and his inner circle"--

The Bush-Saddam Tapes

The Bush-Saddam Tapes
Author: Fedwa Malti-Douglas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9780595521050

Bagdad has fallen. Saddam Hussein is in prison. These are the secret conversations between the American president and the imprisoned Iraqi dictator. Discover the secret plot to bring lasting peace to Iraq.

The Iran-Iraq War

The Iran-Iraq War
Author: Pierre Razoux
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 679
Release: 2015-11-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674088638

From 1980 to 1988, Iran and Iraq fought the longest conventional war of the twentieth century. The tragedies included the slaughter of child soldiers, the use of chemical weapons, the striking of civilian shipping in the Gulf, and the destruction of cities. The Iran-Iraq War offers an unflinching look at a conflict seared into the region’s collective memory but little understood in the West. Pierre Razoux shows why this war remains central to understanding Middle Eastern geopolitics, from the deep-rooted distrust between Sunni and Shia Muslims, to Iran’s obsession with nuclear power, to the continuing struggles in Iraq. He provides invaluable keys to decipher Iran’s behavior and internal struggle today. Razoux’s account is based on unpublished military archives, oral histories, and interviews, as well as audio recordings seized by the U.S. Army detailing Saddam Hussein’s debates with his generals. Tracing the war’s shifting strategies and political dynamics—military operations, the jockeying of opposition forces within each regime, the impact on oil production so essential to both countries—Razoux also looks at the international picture. From the United States and Soviet Union to Israel, Europe, China, and the Arab powers, many nations meddled in this conflict, supporting one side or the other and sometimes switching allegiances. The Iran-Iraq War answers questions that have puzzled historians. Why did Saddam embark on this expensive, ultimately fruitless conflict? Why did the war last eight years when it could have ended in months? Who, if anyone, was the true winner when so much was lost?

Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party

Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party
Author: Joseph Sassoon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 052119301X

A unique and revealing portrait of Saddam Hussein's Iraq which was every bit as authoritarian and brutal as Stalin's Russia or Mao's China.

State of Repression

State of Repression
Author: Lisa Blaydes
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691211752

A new account of modern Iraqi politics that overturns the conventional wisdom about its sectarian divisions How did Iraq become one of the most repressive dictatorships of the late twentieth century? The conventional wisdom about Iraq's modern political history is that the country was doomed by its diverse social fabric. But in State of Repression, Lisa Blaydes challenges this belief by showing that the country's breakdown was far from inevitable. At the same time, she offers a new way of understanding the behavior of other authoritarian regimes and their populations. Drawing on archival material captured from the headquarters of Saddam Hussein's ruling Ba'th Party in the wake of the 2003 US invasion, Blaydes illuminates the complexities of political life in Iraq, including why certain Iraqis chose to collaborate with the regime while others worked to undermine it. She demonstrates that, despite the Ba'thist regime's pretensions to political hegemony, its frequent reliance on collective punishment of various groups reinforced and cemented identity divisions. At the same time, a series of costly external shocks to the economy—resulting from fluctuations in oil prices and Iraq's war with Iran—weakened the capacity of the regime to monitor, co-opt, coerce, and control factions of Iraqi society. In addition to calling into question the common story of modern Iraqi politics, State of Repression offers a new explanation of why and how dictators repress their people in ways that can inadvertently strengthen regime opponents.

Hitler's Second Book

Hitler's Second Book
Author: Adolf Hitler
Publisher: Enigma Books
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1929631618

The unpublished followup to Hitler's autobiography never published during the dictator's lifetime includes details of his vision for a foreign policy based on continual aggression that would inevitably result in a confrontation with the United States, which he saw as a major stumbling block to his plans.