TY - BOOK AU - Khadduri,Majid AU - Ghareeb,Edmund TI - War in the Gulf, 1990-91: the Iraq-Kuwait conflict and its implications SN - 9780198024545 AV - DS79.72 .K397 2001eb U1 - 956.70442 22 PY - 2001/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Persian Gulf War, 1991 KW - Military history KW - Gulf War KW - Guerre du golfe Persique, 1991 KW - Histoire militaire KW - HISTORY KW - Military KW - bisacsh KW - Golfoorlog (1991) KW - gtt KW - Irak KW - Kuweit (emiraat) KW - Electronic books N1 - Originally published: 1997; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=287580 ER -