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U.S. Marines in Battle Al-Khafji - 28 January - 1 February 1991 (Paperback)
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U.S. Marines in Battle Al-Khafji - 28 January - 1 February 1991 (Paperback)
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In August 1990, Iraqi military forces invaded the neighboring
nation of Kuwait. The invasion was part of an expansionist foreign
policy that President Saddam Hussein established a decade earlier
when he invaded post-revolution Iran. The Iraqi invasion of Iran
failed, degenerating into a decade long war of attrition, but
Kuwait was an easier target. Kuwait had financed the Iraq-Iran War
for Iraq, but refused to forgive the debt, and Iraq accused Kuwait
of stealing oil from the Rumalia Oil Field. Much smaller than Iran
in terms of population and geography, Kuwait had focused its
foreign and defense policies on negotiation and compromise rather
than military force; inevitably, the large Iraqi Army quickly
overwhelmed the small Kuwaiti armed forces. Inside Kuwait, Iraqi
troops began wholesale pillaging as security forces moved to remove
all those loyal to the Kuwaiti royal family. Iraq declared that
Kuwait was now a province, thus eliminating its debt and adding
extensive oil fields to its own. Saddam stationed conscript
infantry divisions in Kuwait and began building extensive defenses
along the Kuwaiti-Saudi border. While Saddam calculated the
military balance between Iraq and Kuwait correctly, he
underestimated the willingness of the world community, especially
the United States and Great Britain, to intervene on Kuwait's
behalf. His invasion set the stage for a military confrontation
that was larger in scope than any similar circumstance since the
Cold War. Under President George H.W. Bush, the United States
assembled a global coalition of concerned nations, first to defend
Saudi Arabia against further Iraqi aggression, and then to eject
the Iraqi military from Kuwait. Early in this "Gulf War" American
military commanders designated the operation to protect Saudi
Arabia "Desert Shield," and the successive operation to free Kuwait
"Desert Storm." These military operations were massive
undertakings, and they highlighted the paradigm shift from
superpowers in precarious equilibrium during the Cold War to
American global hegemony in the 1990s.
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