Author : Jane Bingham
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1432959972
This book briefly examines the military and political impact of the Gulf wars, along with their imapct on civilian populations.
Author : Richard Hallion
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 28,74 MB
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 158834519X
An incisive account of the Persian Gulf War, Storm Over Iraq shows how the success of Operation Desert Storm was the product of two decades of profound changes in the American approach to defense, military doctrine, and combat operations. The first detailed analysis of why the Gulf War could be fought the way it was, the book examines the planning and preparation for war. Richard P. Hallion argues that the ascendancy of precision air power in warfare—which fulfilled the promise that air power had held for more than seventy-five years—reflects the revolutionary adaptation of a war strategy that targets things rather than people, allowing one to control an opposing nation without destroying it.
Author : Zainab Bahrani
Publisher : P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 15,43 MB
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780996893084
This exhibition catalogue, accompanying the major building-wide exhibition Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2011, includes four new commissioned texts by scholars of Iraqi art Zainab Bahrani, Rijin Sahakian, and Nada Shabout, as well as a media-focused critique from McKenzie Wark. The book will also feature essays from our curators Ruba Katrib and Peter Eleey, as well as critical reproductions from contemporaneous media artifacts, ranging from the Baghdad Diaries--the personal diaries during Iraqi occupation and sanction of artist Nuha Al-Radi--as well as entries from the still-anonymous blogger Riverbend's Baghdad Burning blog chronicling her time living under occupation, as well as texts from Serge Daney, Jean Baudrillard. As this conflict was the first to disseminate via a 24hr televised news cycle, this publication examines the impact of this period of ongoing conflict and its pervasive effects on visual culture.
Author : Jane Bingham
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,29 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988
ISBN : 9781406234879
Why has the recent War in Iraq been so contentious, whereas the First Gulf War was supported by a broad coalition of nations? Why are they of such global significance? And how did the wars affect people on both sides of the conflict? This book seeks to relate the overall events and chronology of the wars and shows their impact on everyday lives.
Author : Suzanne Murdico
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823945511
Examines events surrounding the 1991 war between Iraq and a worldwide coalition of forces, plus biographical notes on important figures and a look at the effects of this war.
Author : Alastair Finlan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 12,83 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1472810198
The Gulf War of 1991 heralded a new type of warfare that was characterised by astonishing speed and high technology with remarkably low numbers of casualties amongst the coalition forces. Just under a million coalition personnel were deployed to the Gulf region to face a variety of threats from extreme temperatures to weapons of mass destruction (biological, chemical and suspected nuclear) and a formidable Iraqi occupation force. This book assesses the defensive Operation Desert Shield (the build up of coalition forces) and the offensive Operation Desert Storm (the liberation of Kuwait) as well as the key personalities on both sides.
Author : John Bulloch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 23,39 MB
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317206290
After a million deaths and twice that number injured, after the destruction of much of the infrastructure of Iran and Iraq, disruption of trade throughout the Gulf and the involvement of the USA and USSR, was the Gulf War a pointless exercise, a futile conflict which achieved nothing and left the combatants at the end of it all back in exactly the same position from which they started in 1980? In this book, first published in 1989, the authors argue that the lack of territorial gain was irrelevant: the real advantages won by each side were far more important, intangible though they were. For Iran, the channelling of the energies of her people away from domestic concerns meant the continuation of the Islamic revolution and ensured the stability of the mullahs. In Iraq, the war propped up the increasingly shaky regime of Saddam Hussein. The outside world, especially the superpowers, was terrified of the spread of Muslim fundamentalism, so made no effort to prevent Iraq from trying to halt this spread. But Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria and the oil states also had vested interests in promoting the continuation of the war.
Author : Keith L. Shimko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 16,11 MB
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 052111151X
This book is a comprehensive study of the Iraq Wars in the context of the revolution in military affairs debate.
Author : Rick Atkinson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 10,39 MB
Release : 1993
Category : 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 : Dilip Hiro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134524331
This highly controversial and topical book provides the first full, balanced account of how Iraq cheated the UN inspectors on disarmament and how the US manipulated and infiltrated the UN inspection teams and other staff to gather intelligence on Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Aimed at the general reader, it follows and assesses the role of Saddam Hussein who became president of Iraq in 1979. Dilip Hiro, an experienced journalist who has written extensively on the region, provides a historical and accessible perspective to the relationship between Iraq and Iran and examines the consequences of internationally significant events such as the death of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran a year after the end of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War and the 1990 invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein. Providing a full account and analysis of events in Iraq since the 1991 Gulf War, he contrasts the long totalitarianism under Hussein with the evolution of the political-religious system in Iran and the development of its internal politics. This is an essential overview to the conflicts in the Gulf, and should be read by anyone with an interest in the region, its politics and its interactions with the US and UN.
