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War

“Justice and Injustice in the Gulf War”, in D.
A pacifist objects to killing (not just violence) in general and, in particular, she objects to the mass killing, for political reasons, which is part and parcel of the wartime experience.
In other words, “all's fair in love and war.” During the grim circumstances of war, “anything goes.” So if adhering to the rules of just war theory, or international law, hinders a state during wartime, it should disregard them and stick steadfastly to its fundamental interests in power, security and economic growth.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/war (10663 words)



THE UNITED STATESS TWO GULF WARS- A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Gulf War I broke the myth of Arab unity and Islamic solidarity which was considered in the prior period as potent and monolithic.
Gulf War II would now once again witness the United States pitted against Iraq after nearly a decade plus.
In Gulf War I, it was imperative for the United States, both politically and strategically to have coalition partners to fight under the UN flag to eject Iraq from Kuwait.

http://www.saag.org/papers6/paper598.html (1809 words)



Collectibles - Auctions

British Gulf War 2 OP TELIC IRAQ Medal no clasp - $14.71
Vietnam War Gulf of Tonkin Incident Documents - $9.00
Army Patch, Gulf War,Iraq, Desert Shield Combatant USA3 - $1.82

http://gulfwar.org/c/1/Collectibles/Gulf-War/index.html (1809 words)



Gulf War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"From the Gulf War to the Taliban Jihad." Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam.
The war with Iran had also seen the destruction of almost all of Iraq's port facilities on the Persian Gulf, cutting off Iraq's main trade outlet.
The Gulf War:an in-depth examination of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf crisis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf_War (8989 words)



ISN Security Watch - Gulf states fear both US and Iraq

The initiative united the Gulf states in throwing off their ambivalence towards Saddam, but was not discussed officially at the summit because of the fears of other Arab countries that interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq would give others an excuse to interfere in theirs.
With the exception of Saudi Arabia, which takes into consideration a public opinion that generally supports Osama bin Laden's radical anti-Americanism, the Gulf council, as a group, looks more sympathetically on US preparations for war - not in hope of war but of increasing pressure on Hussein to step down.
But few in the Gulf like Bush - not only because of his hawkish policy against Iraq but also because of the free hand he has given Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to continue his vengeful military campaign against the Palestinian people for the past two years.

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details_print.cfm?id=6000 (722 words)



War

The generals who led the Gulf War of 1991 speak out against this impending war as foolish, unnecessary, dangerous.
This administration will not likely be stopped, though it knows its support is thin., In fact, that is undoubtedly why it is in such a hurry; it wants to go to war before the support declines even further.
How soon that will happen depends not only on the millions now - whether actively or silently -- in the anti-war movement, but also on the emergence of whistle blowers inside the Establishment who begin to talk,, of journalists who become tired of being manipulated by the government, and begin to write to truth.

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0227-12.htm (1890 words)



Persian Gulf - from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In 1991 the Persian Gulf again was the background for a Persian Gulf War as Iraq invaded Kuwait and was subsequently pushed back during what is now predominantly known as the Persian Gulf War, despite the fact that this conflict did not focus primarily on the Persian Gulf.
The Persian Gulf was among the scenes of the Iran-Iraq War that lasted from 1980 to 1988, as with each side attacking the other's oil tankers.
Countries with a coastline on the Persian Gulf are (clockwise, from the southeast): United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar on a peninsula off the Saudi coast, Bahrain on an island, Kuwait and Iraq in the northwest, and Iran in the north.

http://www.nigc-mpgc.ir/en/persiangulf.asp (1890 words)



gulf war information

The war with Iran had also seen the destruction of almost all of Iraq's port facilities on the Persian Gulf cutting off Iraq's main trade outlet.
A crucial result of the Gulf War, according the Gilles Kepel, was the sharp revival in Islamic extremism.
The Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of 34 nations led by the United States.

http://www.war-against-terror.net/gulf-war.htm (1890 words)



Corinth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

600 BC After the end of the Peloponnesian War, Corinth and Thebes, which were former allies with Sparta in the Peloponnesian League, had grown dissatisfied with the hegemony of Sparta and started the Corinthian War against it, which further weakened the city-states of the Peloponnese.
In the Corinthian Gulf lied Lechaion, which connected the city to it's western colonies (Greek: apoikoiai) and Magna Graecia, while in the Saronic Gulf the port of Kenchreai served the ships coming from Athens, Ionia, Cyprus and the rest of the Levant.
During the reign of Byzantine emperor Justinian I, a large stone wall was erected from the Saronic to the Corinthian gulf, protecting the city and the Peloponnesean peninsula from the barbarian invasions of the north.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinth (2058 words)



Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Persian Gulf

In 1991 the Persian Gulf again was the background for whatat was called the "Persian Gulf War" or "The Gulf War" when Iraq invaded Kuwait and was subsequently pushed back, despite the fact that this conflict was primarily a land conflict.
The Persian Gulf was among the scenes of the Iraq-Iran War that lasted from 1980 to 1988, as with each side attacking the other's oil tankers.
Countries with a coastline on the Persian Gulf, called the Persian Gulf States or the Gulf States, are (clockwise, from the north): Iran (Persia), United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar on a peninsula off the Saudi coast, Bahrain on an island, Kuwait and Iraq in the northwest.

http://www.baghdadmuseum.org/ref/index.php?title=Persian_Gulf (619 words)



Veterans Affairs -- Thur., Feb. 8, 2001

It seems amazing to me that when the Gulf War started and people went over there and did jobs, were on order, et cetera, none of them were ever told what to do with these Gulf War possibilities and things like that.
Well, we have no war so wherever Gulf War Syndrome came from, I don't know, but then again, according to a doctor, a neuropathologist, Terry's official cause of death was Gulf War Syndrome.
We are raising Gulf children, not children so much born after the Persian Gulf Conflict, but children who were 10, who were 2 when daddy left and this man came back.

http://www.gov.ns.ca/legislature/hansard/comm/va/va010208.htm (619 words)



Failure of the Tommy Kabu Movement, The

"Some idea of the prestige which Police Motu had acquired during the war is to be gained from the life story of one Papuan who made a name for himself after the war trying to improve the lot of his people.
His life was transformed, as were those of so many men of his generation, by the events of World War Two.
In the post-war period the efforts of Europeans to retain their hegemonic control over the population and to retain their pre-war status clashed with the growing desires of Papuans and New Guineans for greater autonomy and development.

http://bahai-library.com/?file=hassall_tommy_kabu_movement.html (619 words)



Persian Gulf War

Another helpful technology involved in the Gulf War was huge deposits of oil discovered in the Middle East around the Persian Gulf after World War II.
Hussein believed it to be his destiny to fight in the Gulf War.
The Persian Gulf War was said to be the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history.

http://www.northstar.k12.ak.us/schools/nph/twt/storm/gulfwar.htm (922 words)



Limited War: The Stereotypes

The US government did not release figures during the Gulf War for the tonnage of bombs being dropped, but it regularly released figures on sorties, and anyone who bothered to do the arithmetic would have concluded that the limited number of sorties being flown could not be dropping such huge tonnages of bombs.
The New York Times said that the tonnage of bombs that had been dropped on the Iraqis was "generally believed to be more than was used in all of World War II." (John Kifner, "From Bombs to Burgers, Supplies in Persian Gulf Dwarf Past Moves," The New York Times, February 4, 1991, p.
Overall, the United States not only fought the Gulf War for limited goals--allowing Saddam Hussein to remain in power--but fought with limited means, in some important ways more narrowly limited than the means used in Vietnam.

http://www.clemson.edu/caah/history/FacultyPages/EdMoise/limit1.html (922 words)



Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Persian Gulf -

In 1991 the Persian Gulf again was the background for a "Gulf War" as Iraq invaded Kuwait and was subsequently pushed back during what is now predominantly known as the (Persian) Gulf War, despite the fact that this conflict did not focus primarily on the Persian Gulf.
The Persian Gulf was among the scenes of the Iran-Iraq War that lasted from 1980 to 1988, as with each side attacking the other's oil tankers.
Countries with a coastline on the Gulf are (clockwise, from the southeast): United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar on a peninsula off the Saudi coast, Bahrain on an island, Kuwait and Iraq in the northwest, and Iran in the north.

http://www.kidsseek.com/encyclopedia-wiki/pe/Persian_Gulf (281 words)



Iraq War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In the first Persian Gulf War, while retreating from Kuwait, the Iraqi army had set many oil wells on fire, in an attempt to disguise troop movements and to distract Coalition forces--a side effect of these actions were many environmental problems.
The conflict is also commonly referred to as Gulf War II or the Second Gulf War, to distinguish it from the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
According to opinion polls, the war was unpopular from the outset in many Coalition countries and was widely viewed as counterproductive and improper (and, at the extreme, even illegal); beginining in the summer of 2005, more individuals in the United States believed such notions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Iraq_war (281 words)



Gulf state

Discusses the variety of conspiracy theories surrounding the Persian Gulf War.
#68: The Economic Consequences of the Gulf War - Kamran Mofid and Anoushiravan Ehteshami.
#1: Frontline: the Gulf War - In-depth oral history and analysis of the Gulf War based on interviews with political leaders, commanders, Iraqi leaders, and intelligence analysts.

http://www.omniknow.com/common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Gulf_state (281 words)



PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Autumn 2003

Likewise, the US military of the 1990s worshiped Colin Powell, because he masterfully managed the 1991 Persian Gulf War by closely adhering to the Weinberger-Powell rules on the use of force.
This article postulates that the Uptonian paradox remains an important influence on the US military and is shown in two tendencies: the inclination to separate the military and political domains after a war begins, and the tendency of the US military to prescribe its preferred paradigm for war to its civilian leadership.
The US Army’s participation in World War I was too brief to change the concept of war that it had developed from the Civil War—one that it subsequently nurtured by the study of Civil War campaigns during the interwar period.

http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/03autumn/cassidy.htm (281 words)



BBC News MIDDLE EAST Gulf states back US

The correspondent says the states are angry that the US did not deliver on promises to help the Palestinians after the Gulf War but has instead, they believe, continued to take the side of the Israelis.
Washington needs all the support it can get from its Gulf Arab allies, both politically and in terms of military facilities, to fight its new war against terrorism.
The foreign ministers of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) - comprising Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman- issued the statement after an extraordinary meeting in the Saudi port of Jeddah.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1558000/1558710.stm (508 words)



Gulf of Mannar

Bleeding The Gulf - The UN Sanctions on Iraq Arguing that the Gulf War was contrived to legitimise a continued Western military presence in the Gulf region, subsequently buttressed by a brutal and illegal regime of sanctions.
Discusses the variety of conspiracy theories surrounding the Persian Gulf War.
Gulf War I Bios Biographies of POW/MIA's and KIA/BNR from Gulf War I. http://www.pownetwork.org/gulf/index_gulf_war.htm

http://www.serebella.com/encyclopedia/article-Gulf_of_Mannar.html (508 words)



Gulf of Fonseca -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!

Information on the international coalition of advocates and organizations providing support to veteran Gulf War victims.
Concludes that political realities will ensure that Gulf War Syndrome research will continue to receive funding, even if there is scant evidence supporting it.
PBS's Frontline documentary, "Last Battle of the Gulf War," focusing on the mysterious Gulf War Syndrome afflicting veterans of that war.

http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9364644 (948 words)



Middle East: The February Gulf crisis

In 1991, the US and allies were able to 'teach a lesson' to wayward bourgeois states in the 'Third World' and the colonial and ex-colonial masses, through the horror of the Gulf War.
The CWI opposes all imperialist aggression in the Gulf, be that UN economic sanctions or war.
The refusal of Saudi Arabia and other key Gulf states to allow operations to be conducted from their soil means a land invasion of Iraq would be logistically very difficult, if not impossible.

http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/1998/0404.html (948 words)



Persian Gulf War, 1991

Saddam Hussein denounced Gulf states for their low oil price conspiracy which rendered it impossible for Iraq to repay its Iran war debts
CIA Support to the US Military During the Persian Gulf War (CIA site; includes Iraq Orbat)
Persian Gulf War, 1991, by War, Peace and Security Guides.

http://www.regiments.org/wars/20thcent/91gulf.htm (898 words)



THE UNITED STATES AND THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR

It was Iraq that started the tanker war in the Gulf proper in 1981, and that continued these attacks into 1984 without a parallel Iranian response at sea.
Much of the world's proven oil reserves are located in the limited area of the Persian Gulf (called by Arab nations the "Arabian Gulf," and by those who try to keep their gazetteers politically neutral, simply "the Gulf").
Soviet policy in the Gulf was the subject of a study commissioned by the U.S. Army and written by reputed intellectual heavyweight Francis Fukuyama of the Rand Corporation.

http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/ShalomIranIraq.html (8076 words)



ENVIRONMENTAL WARFARE: 1991 PERSIAN GULF WAR

"Gulf War Legacy: Using Remote Sensing to Assess Habitat in the Saudi Arabian Gulf before the Gulf War Oil Spill." Geo Info Systems June, pp.38-41.
ROPME identified a portion of the Persian Gulf as the ROPME Sea Area and sought help from the international scientific community to determine the impact of the 1991 Gulf War oil spill on the marine environment.
The Persian Gulf, also called the Arabian Gulf by the Arab countries, is a kidney-shaped water body orientated in a northwest to southeast direction.

http://employees.oneonta.edu/baumanpr/geosat2/Environmental_Warfare/ENVIRONMENTAL_WARFARE.htm (4326 words)



The Belmont Club: Pre-war Intelligence

Revelations after the Gulf war starkly demonstrate the extensive efforts undertaken by Iraq to deny information.
After the 1991 Gulf War, UN inspectors found 500 metric tons of yellowcake in Iraq.
WE vets of the fist Gulf War were upset that we weren't allowed to finish it, and in effect, THAT war never stopped.

http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2005/11/pre-war-intelligence.html (12455 words)



The Patriot Missile. Performance in the Gulf War Reviewed

After examining video evidence of the Patriot's performance in Israel during the Gulf War and conducting his own tests, professor Postol claimed that the Patriot had a very low success rate.
During the Gulf War, the Patriot was assigned to shoot down incoming Iraqi Scud or Al-Hussein Missiles launched at Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Performance of the Patriot Missiles System in the Gulf War from Report of the House Committee on Governmental Operations, One Hundred Second Congress, First and Second Sessions, 1991 - 1992, Report 102-1086, pages 179- 188.

http://www.cdi.org/issues/bmd/Patriot.html (2754 words)



Guardian Unlimited Special reports War critics astonished as US hawk admits invasion was illegal

Mr Perle, who was speaking at an event organised by the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, had argued loudly for the toppling of the Iraqi dictator since the end of the 1991 Gulf war.
Other council members disagreed, but American and British lawyers argued that the threat of force had been implicit since the first Gulf war, which was ended only by a ceasefire.
International lawyers and anti-war campaigners reacted with astonishment yesterday after the influential Pentagon hawk Richard Perle conceded that the invasion of Iraq had been illegal.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1089158,00.html (729 words)



"Limited War" in Lebanon

Doubtless Lebanon should be free from the Syrian domination that was backed by George Bush as part of the payoff for Syria's participation in his Gulf war.
Haddad's forces were responsible for many atrocities, reported in Israel but not here, one of the most notorious being the massacre of all remaining inhabitants of the Lebanese town of Khiam during Israel's 1978 invasion; the population had been reduced from 30,000 to 32 by Israeli bombing in earlier years.
Harkabi's description of the 1982 invasion a "the war to safeguard the occupation of the West Bank" might be applied to Israel's July 1993 attack as well, though the intentions of the Labor government and its US sponsor are not quite those of the Likud government of 1982.

http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/articles/z9309-war-lebanon.html (4131 words)



Israeli Arrow ABM System is Operational as War Clouds Darken

Unlike the Patriot system used in the Gulf War, whose fire control system is essentially automated, the Israeli system leaves it to officers to decide when to fire the Arrow interceptor.
The Arrow, system is designed to avoid the shortcomings of the American Patriot system, which Israelis know was unsuccessful in stopping Scud missile attacks by Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War.
The Arrow Missile Project has acquired several dimensions, among them are its deterrence aspect while its political implications are high on the list.

http://www.ishitech.co.il/1102ar1.htm (4131 words)