Saddam S War

Author : Kevin M. Woods
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Iran
ISBN : UOM:39015090306526

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Saddam's Generals by Kevin M. Woods Pdf

These were Major General Mizher Rashid al-Tarfa al-Ubaydi, a senior officer and section leader in Iraq's military intelligence service dealing with Iran during the conflict; Major General (ret) Aladdin Hussein Makki Khamas, corps chief of staff, division commander, and director of Iraq's Combat Development Directorate during the war; Lieutenant General Abid Mohammed al-Kabi, commander-in-chief of the Iraqi Navy from 1982 to 1988; and Major General 'Alwan Hassoun 'Alwan al-Abousi, a squadron and wing commander during the conflict. As a result of these interviews, the Project 1946 team deepened and extended its understanding of a number of aspects and incidents during the period.

Author : Kevin M. Woods,Williamson Murray,Thomas Holaday,Mounir Elkhamri
Publisher : National Defense University
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Generals
ISBN : 016082737X

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Saddam's War by Kevin M. Woods,Williamson Murray,Thomas Holaday,Mounir Elkhamri Pdf

Includes detailed and edited transcripts of interviews with General Hamdani as well as a summary of insights as interpreted by the interviewers.

Author : Kevin M. Woods,Williamson Murray,Thomas Holaday,Mounir Elkhamri
Publisher : National Defense University
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Generals
ISBN : 016082737X

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Saddam's War by Kevin M. Woods,Williamson Murray,Thomas Holaday,Mounir Elkhamri Pdf

Includes detailed and edited transcripts of interviews with General Hamdani as well as a summary of insights as interpreted by the interviewers.

Author : Jerry M. Long
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0292702647

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Saddam's War of Words by Jerry M. Long Pdf

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 : Jerry M. Long
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780292778160

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Saddam's War of Words by Jerry M. Long Pdf

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 : Williamson Murray,Kevin M. Woods
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139993210

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The Iran–Iraq War by Williamson Murray,Kevin M. Woods Pdf

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 : Pierre Razoux
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674088634

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The Iran-Iraq War by Pierre Razoux Pdf

From 1980 to 1988 Iran and Iraq fought the longest conventional war of the century. It included tragic slaughter of child soldiers, use of chemical weapons, striking of civilian shipping, and destruction of cities. Pierre Razoux offers an unflinching look at a conflict seared into the region’s collective memory but little understood in the West.

Author : Jerrold M. Post,Amatzia Baram
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Iraq
ISBN : 9781428990265

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Saddam is Iraq by Jerrold M. Post,Amatzia Baram Pdf

Identified as a member of the "axis of evil" by President George W. Bush, Saddam Hussein's Iraq continues to pose a major threat to the region and to Western society. Saddam has doggedly pursued the development of weapons of mass destruction, despite U.N. sanctions imposed at the conclusion of the Gulf crisis. To deal effectively with Saddam Hussein requires a clear understanding of his motivations, perceptions, and decision-making. To provide a framework for this complex political leader, a comprehensive political psychology profile has been developed, and his actions since the crisis analyzed in the context of this political psychology assessment

Author : Adam Tarock
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1560725931

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The Superpowers' Involvement in the Iran-Iraq War by Adam Tarock Pdf

The final index entry of "zero-sum game" aptly encapsulates much about the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War (or Gulf War I as the author terms it) and its spinoff of the 1991 Gulf War II, particularly from the perspective of the US. Torock (whose background is unspecified except for the Melbourne signoff on the preface) views Saddam Hussein as a Frankenstein monster created by, and later turning against, the superpowers in a familiar pattern of their contest of political intervention in the Third World. Includes 16 pages of references. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Williamson Murray,Kevin M. Woods
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107062290

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The Iran-Iraq War by Williamson Murray,Kevin M. Woods Pdf

A comprehensive account of the Iran-Iraq War through the lens of the Iraqi regime and its senior military commanders.

Author : Benjamin S Lambeth
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612513126

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The Unseen War by Benjamin S Lambeth Pdf

America’s second war against Iraq differed notably from its first. Operation Desert Storm was a limited effort by coalition forces to drive out those Iraqi troops who had seized Kuwait six months before. In contrast, the major combat phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 was a more ambitious undertaking aimed at decisively ending Saddam Hussein’s rule. After several days of intense air strikes against fixed enemy targets, allied air operations began concentrating on Iraqi ground troops. The intended effect was to destroy Iraqi resistance and allow coalition land forces to maneuver without pausing in response to enemy actions. Iraqi tank concentrations were struck with consistently lethal effect, paving the way for an allied entrance into Baghdad that was largely unopposed. Hussein’s regime finally collapsed on April 9. Viewed in hindsight, it was the combination of allied air power as an indispensable enabler and the unexpected rapidity of the allied ground advance that allowed coalition forces to overrun Baghdad before Iraq could mount a coherent defense. In achieving this unprecedented level of performance, allied air power was indispensable in setting the conditions for the campaign’s end. Freedom from attack and freedom to attack prevailed for allied ground forces. The intended effect of allied air operations was to facilitate the quickest capture of Baghdad without the occurrence of any major head-to-head battles on the ground. This impressive short-term achievement, however, was soon overshadowed by the ensuing insurgency that continued for four years thereafter in Iraq. The mounting costs of that turmoil tended, for a time, to render the campaign’s initial successes all but forgotten. Only more recently did the war begin showing signs of reaching an agreeable end when the coalition’s commander put into effect a new counterinsurgency strategy in 2007 aimed at providing genuine security for Iraqi citizens. The toppling of Hussein’s regime ended the iron rule of an odious dictator who had brutalized his people for more than 30 years. Yet the inadequate resourcing with which that goal was pursued showed that any effective plan for a regime takedown must include due hedging against the campaign’s likely aftermath in addition to simply seeing to the needs of major combat. That said, despite the failure of the campaign’s planners to underwrite the first need adequately, those who conducted the three-week offensive in pursuit of regime change performed all but flawlessly, thanks in considerable part to the mostly unobserved but crucial enabling contributions of allied air power.

Author : Elaine Sciolino
Publisher : New York : Wiley
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015021834141

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The Outlaw State by Elaine Sciolino Pdf

The shooting war is over in the Persian Gulf. However, the war of words about it is only now beginning. Elaine Sciolino, who has covered the Middle East during the past decade for ``The New York Times'', fires the opening salvo in an effort to explain and analyze how the war came about. She first warned us about Saddam Hussein in 1985 in an article for The New York Times Magazine. Now she tells us how Saddam came to power; why he invaded Kuwait, what effects the war's outcome will have; and what happens to the region's balance of power with Saddam's army destroyed.

Author : Williamson Murray,Kevin M. Woods
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1107673925

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The Iran-Iraq War by Williamson Murray,Kevin M. Woods Pdf

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 : John Bulloch,Harvey Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Iraq
ISBN : 0571165508

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Saddam's War by John Bulloch,Harvey Morris Pdf

Author : Ali Musallam Musallam
Publisher : British Academic Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015037468025

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The Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait by Ali Musallam Musallam Pdf

Evaluates three factors which may explain the causes of the Gulf War. First, the author compares Saddam Hussein's personality to other war-like dictators, analyzes the internal weaknesses of the Iraqi state, and then assesses the formal anarchy of the post