War in the Gulf, 1990-91 : the Iraq-Kuwait conflict and its implications / / Majid Khadduri, Edmund Ghareeb

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821143903321
• Autore: Khadduri Majid <1908->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001
• ISBN: 0-19-992386-8; 1-280-83509-5; 9786610835096; 0-19-802454-1; 0-19-534877-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): GhareebEdmund
• Disciplina: 956.70442
• Soggetti: Persian Gulf War, 1991; Military history
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-294) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; PART I: ORIGINS OF THE GULF WAR; PART II: IMMEDIATE CAUSES OF THE GULF WAR; PART III: STAGES OF THE GULF WAR; PART IV: RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE GULF WAR; Epilogue; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: For most Americans, the war against Iraq lingers in memory as a vast morality play, a drama offering ready made heroes and villains: a glowering dictator in military uniform, hapless Kuwaiti refugees with tales of persecution, plucky pilots with high-tech wizardry, and a defiant American president, ringing Churchillian as he drew a line in the sand. But this characterization of the war is greatly oversimplified, a one-dimensional portrait, lacking in context and nuance. In War in the Gulf, 1990 91, eminent scholars Majid Khadduri and Edmund Ghareeb paint a very different picture, one that brin