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United States and Two Gulf Wars : Prelude and Aftermath / Lester H. Brune.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Conflict and TradePublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (402 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781593335915
  • 9781463215422
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Guide to Notes & Bibliography -- Preface & Acknowledgements -- 1. Prologue -- 2. The First U.S.-Iraqi War -- 3. Policy of Containment 1991 to 2001 -- 4. Preparing for War Again 2000-2003 -- 5. The Second U.S.-Iraqi War -- 6. Searching for Banned Weapons & Reviewing the Intelligence Processes -- 7. Creating an Interim Iraqi Government -- 8. Internal Security & the Insurgency -- 9 Tribulations & Trials -- 10. Awe & Shock -- 11. Electing an Iraqi Government -- 12. Reverberations on the Home Front -- 13. Epilogue -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Summary: This incisive study by historian Lester Brune examines the background and implications of the two conflicts. Considering the late twentieth-century involvement of the United States in Iraq, Brune discusses the policy of containment and the decision to go to war a second time. He traces the situation up to the creation of an Iraqi government and Saddam Hussein’s capture and trial. The continuing implications of the wars are also analyzed.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Guide to Notes & Bibliography -- Preface & Acknowledgements -- 1. Prologue -- 2. The First U.S.-Iraqi War -- 3. Policy of Containment 1991 to 2001 -- 4. Preparing for War Again 2000-2003 -- 5. The Second U.S.-Iraqi War -- 6. Searching for Banned Weapons & Reviewing the Intelligence Processes -- 7. Creating an Interim Iraqi Government -- 8. Internal Security & the Insurgency -- 9 Tribulations & Trials -- 10. Awe & Shock -- 11. Electing an Iraqi Government -- 12. Reverberations on the Home Front -- 13. Epilogue -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index

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This incisive study by historian Lester Brune examines the background and implications of the two conflicts. Considering the late twentieth-century involvement of the United States in Iraq, Brune discusses the policy of containment and the decision to go to war a second time. He traces the situation up to the creation of an Iraqi government and Saddam Hussein’s capture and trial. The continuing implications of the wars are also analyzed.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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