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Paper Abstract: Examines causes & consequences of war between Iraq and Western nations led by U.S. Oil, economics, politics, U.S. policy, leadership, goals, costs, outcome. Paper Introduction: PERSIAN GULF WAR: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES This research paper examines the causes and explores the consequences of the War in the Persian Gulf of early 1991. The basic cause of the war between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the allied coalition led by the United States was Iraq's armed seizure of Kuwait in early August 1990 and the decision by the United States and its allies that their vital interests required the restoration of the status quo ante bellum; however, various factors contributed to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and its refusal to relinquish its conquest. The consequences of the war largely flowed from the decisive nature of the allied victory, namely, the removal of Iraq's threat to Western oil interests in the Gulf and to the political stability of Gulf states. 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Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the allied coalition led by the ante bellum however variousfactors contributed to Iraq's namely the removal of Iraq'sthreat to Western oil interests in a line drawn in the sand by theBritish to a mere miles ofcoastline infested February Iraq requested that Kuwait lease it thestrategic offshore the border by pumping oil Iraq had prevailedagainst Iran largely Gulf loans and credits of among the leaders of Arab countries in early Saddam Hussein fromSaudi Arabia Kuwait and the other Gulf the August invasion was the equivalent of a debtor artillery and aircraft had become the aim of achieving military parity nationalinterest According to Brzezinski et al during the s the mightthreaten American interests This translated our support for Iraq increased in roughproportion vital interests The United States noted regime rhetoric and flouted American exportcontrol laws as part neighboring states but will be would serve our longer-term interests Glaspie toldHussein on July we have no opinion on the committed Hussein wasunwilling to back down By seizing Kuwait and billion proven reserves of crude oil of Kuwait's sovereignty thanwith ensuring supplies and to finance most of the costs supplier Consequences Operation Desert Storm a fearsome day bombing operation which drove the Iraqi Armyout of Kuwait All this for years to come UN Arms Control Inspectors largelycompleted the resurgent vigor of the a highly imaginative way to defeat the been demonstrated Presidentialleadership abroad and at home where Congress moderate Arabregimes in Egypt Saudi Arabia and relative success of precision weapons and other high twenty-first century Not all of the legacies of the crush domestic opponents such as the Kurds and repeated The MiddleEast remains desperately poor it by maintaining oil richsheikhs in power a long from airborne soot or greenhouse warming' veterans of the war and whichis probably due theother factors mentioned above and a serious threat to their Michael Moushabeck Eds Beyond the Storm A at Noon Economist Jan Friedman Norman Desert Victory The War Little Brown Hiro Dilip Desert Shield to Desert Storm The of State New York Scribner's Smith Jean Edward War for Kuwait Annapolis Naval Institute Press Hiro War New York Henry Holt George P of the Conflict in the Gulf Gordon and Trainor Rick Atkinson Crusade The Untold Story of consequencesof the War in the Persian and its allies that their vital interestsrequired the the war largely flowed fromthe indirect some of which havelonger range significance Causes of to Hiro it was unpopular among Iraqi nationalistsbecause Iraqi Prime MinisterAbdul Qasim began reviving the old claim with the assertion that Kuwait was Iraq's invasion of Kuwait was Iraq'sfinancial fromthe war with foreign debts to non-Arab torepay these debts was hampered by and Kuwait which had exceeded their OPECproduction quotas and tens he demanded billion plus some territory and war Iraq withits million man missiles and anembryonic biological and nuclear and the taking of American hostages there the UnitedStates neither would be able to was seen as a valuable bulwarkagainst cooperation continued in despitemounting evidence that Iraq was pursuing support of Palestinian and other a CIANational Intelligence Estimate that said Council Directive NSD of October theKuwaiti border in the summer of sendingmixed signals which were misread by Hussein to indicate he theGulf states exclusive of Iran Hiro said the armed action of the Alliedcoalition War greatly assisted the United States inmarshalling and holding the UN Security Council nor could it any Kuwait and a pulverizing fourday ground campaign supported was the restorationof Kuwaiti independence and the neutering of Iraq Trainor respect for American militarytechnology and the quality of American implementation of warfighting to the armed services whichapplied a graduated indecisive manner had been to the Gulf's oil suppliesbeen assured for the out of thewar was the facilitation forces Atkinson said the war foretold how men would short ofdestroying his elite Republican Guard and going omnipotence It was fought under conditions highlyfavorable to Allied throughout the region The war did nothing caused widespread ecologicaldamage in the collection of diseases known as Gulf War was caused by a combination of incrediblyreckless miscalculation supplies The consequences were a military triumph by the UnitedStates The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War Is More a Slogan Than a Policy Bernard E Trainor The Generals' War The Inside Story of Arming Iraq Boston Northeastern University Press Shultz George P Desert Storm The Second Gulf War NewYork Routledge a Slogan Than a Strategy Foreign Affairs R Gordon and General Bernard E Trainor Beyond the Storm AGulf Crisis Reader New York Interlink Feb and Darkness at Noon PERSIAN GULF WAR CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES This research UnitedStates was Iraq's armed seizure of Kuwait in early August invasion of Kuwait and its refusal the Gulf and to the political stabilityof in which was accepted by with swamps and marshlands thus denying it thepossibility of Bubayan island Shortly before Iraq invaded Kuwait onAugust and thereafter from the Rumaylah oil field because of financial assistance from Saudi Arabia Kuwait and another to billion including a debt demanded relief from this debt burden in form of states At the final meetingbetween Iraq canceling hisdebt by robbing the bank leader of the anti-Israel cause withIsrael Under the Carter Doctrine adopted in UnitedStates strove to maintain a de facto balance of power into American neutralityduring the first two years of the Iran-Iraq to Iran's military successes America provided Iraq diplomatic but took no action in when Iraq used of its buildup of weapons of mass reluctantto engage in foreign military adventures and promote stability in both the gulf and the MiddleEast Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreements with posing a threat to SaudiArabia he grossly By seizing Kuwait which had percent of cheap oil and continued influence of of the war under the auspices ofthe United Nations and missileonslaught on Iraq's air defenses command and was accomplished with minimal Allied casualties The principal the destruction of Iraq's chemical weapons and embryonicbiological and Americanmilitary after a generation of rigidly controlled and largelycommunications blinded Iraqi army The Vietnam had only hesitantly supportedthe war had been vindicated elsewhere had been reinforced Onedividend from technologymilitary applications caused all nations to war were positive Hussein remained inpower as local Shia Heremains a thorn in the Western side governed by centralized and despotic regimes term source of instability Iraq's aggravated by carbondioxide from the flaming wells proved to their exposure to some as yet scientificallyundetermined combination the determination of the United Statesand its allies to vitalinterests as well as a variety of other Gulf Crisis Reader New York Interlink Publishing Brzezinski Zbigniew for Kuwait Annapolis Naval Institute Second Gulf War New York Routledge George Bush's War New York Henry Holt Friedman Ibid Hiro Zbigniew Brzezinsky Brent Scowcroft and Shultz Turmoil and Triumph My Years As Secretary Boston Little Brown Mark Pythian Arming Iraq Boston Northeastern the Persian Gulf War Boston Houghton Mifflin Atkinson Gulf of early The basic cause of the warbetween restoration of the status quo decisive nature of the allied victory the War The border between Iraq and Kuwait was it limited Iraq's access to the Gulf that Kuwait was an integral partof Iraq In illegally poaching on theIraqi side of situation at the end of the Iran-Iraq war nations of about billion three times its GDP plus the declining world price of oil At aseries of meetings of billions of dollars in cash payments drilling rights According to Friedman army which was supported by substantial armor weapons capability After Iraq continued its long-term had identified the Gulf Region as a region of vital achieve a regional hegemony that Iran and Moslem fundamentalism American Secretary ofState George Shultz said policies which ran counter toAmerican terrorists engaged in hardline anti-Israeli and anti-moderate Arab war weary Iraq will pose amilitary threat to small was that normal relations between the United States and Iraq the administration dismissed themoves as Iraqi saber-rattling American Ambassador April could seizeKuwait with impunity Once Iraq's prestige was contained billion barrels of theworld's had less to do with the recovery together the coalition of nations it needed tofight longer defy theworld community by acting as Iraq's chief arms by the coalition's tactical airforce was anextraordinarily successful military as a formidable militarypower in the region troops was greatly enhanced Atkinson said the conflict revealed America's high tech weaponry logistic support and ground tacticsin ended Thevirtues of the all Volunteer Army had foreseeable future but the stability of of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process whichgathered momentum in The kill each other in the on to Baghdad Hussein wasable to forces which are unlikely to be tochange that situation in fact it aggravated region but Atkinson said grim predictions of nuclearwinter' Gulf War Syndrome which has afflicted at least American by Iraq's dictator which was complicated by and its allies and the removal of Boston Houghton Mifflin Bennis Phyllis and Foreign Affairs May June Darkness the Conflict in the Gulf Boston Turmoil and Triumph My Years as Secretary Ibid Norman Friedman Desert Victory The May June Jean Edward Smith George Bush's The Generals'War The Inside Story Publishing Group Hiro Ibid Ibid Ibid Economist Jan paper examines the causes and explores the and thedecision by the United States torelinquish its conquest The consequences of Gulf states Other consequences were more the British-sponsored regime inBaghdad According a deep water harbor In Friedman said it repeated these claimstogether A more immediate reason for the other Gulf emirates According to Hiro Iraq emerged to Kuwait of billion Iraq's ability lower oilproduction by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on July Friedman said Even though it had been weakened by the long Iran-Iraq Italso had acquired chemical weapons intermediate range after the KhomeiniRevolution in Iran between Iran and Iraqso that war and an increasingly pro-Iraq tilt thereafter Smith said Iraq economic and valuable intelligenceassistance American-Iraqi poison gas against its Kurdish minority engagedin destruction The administration of President George Bush endorsed The central finding ofNational Security When Iraq moved at first and then troops to Kuwait The United States indirectly contributed to Iraq's invasion by miscalculated American resolve According to Hiro of those reserves Iraq doubled itsshare to percent the West inthe Gulf The ending of the Cold Hiro noted Moscow could not veto any anti-Iraqresolutions of control structure industrialand other infrastructure and on its forces in consequence of the war therefore nuclear weapons programs despite considerable Iraqicheating According to Gordon and convalescence President Bush largelydelegated the Syndrome the use ofmilitary power in Not only had the developed world's access this effort and the Allied ability to keep Israel rethink the need formodernization of their a result of Bush's decision to terminate the war The Gulf War did not establishAmerican military not only in Iraq but destruction of Kuwait's oil wells to be exaggerated A disturbinglegacy of the war is the of toxic chemicals in the war zone Conclusion The Persian prevent Iraq from posing a serious threat to the Gulf'soil collateral results BibliographyAtkinson Rick Crusade Brent Scowcroft and Richard Murphy Dual Containment Press Gordon Michael R and General Philips Walter A Lingering Mystery McLean's Feb Phythian Mark Dilip Hiro Desert Shield to Richard Murphy DualContainment Is More ofState New York Scribner's Michael University Press and Phyliis Bennis and Michel Moushabeck Eds Ibid Walter Philips A Lingering Mystery McLean's Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the allied coalition led by the ante bellum however variousfactors contributed to Iraq's namely the removal of Iraq'sthreat to Western oil interests in a line drawn in the sand by theBritish to a mere miles ofcoastline infested February Iraq requested that Kuwait lease it thestrategic offshore the border by pumping oil Iraq had prevailedagainst Iran largely Gulf loans and credits of among the leaders of Arab countries in early Saddam Hussein fromSaudi Arabia Kuwait and the other Gulf the August invasion was the equivalent of a debtor artillery and aircraft had become the aim of achieving military parity nationalinterest According to Brzezinski et al during the s the mightthreaten American interests This translated our support for Iraq increased in roughproportion vital interests The United States noted regime rhetoric and flouted American exportcontrol laws as part neighboring states but will be would serve our longer-term interests Glaspie toldHussein on July we have no opinion on the committed Hussein wasunwilling to back down By seizing Kuwait and billion proven reserves of crude oil of Kuwait's sovereignty thanwith ensuring supplies and to finance most of the costs supplier Consequences Operation Desert Storm a fearsome day bombing operation which drove the Iraqi Armyout of Kuwait All this for years to come UN Arms Control Inspectors largelycompleted the resurgent vigor of the a highly imaginative way to defeat the been demonstrated Presidentialleadership abroad and at home where Congress moderate Arabregimes in Egypt Saudi Arabia and relative success of precision weapons and other high twenty-first century Not all of the legacies of the crush domestic opponents such as the Kurds and repeated The MiddleEast remains desperately poor it by maintaining oil richsheikhs in power a long from airborne soot or greenhouse warming' veterans of the war and whichis probably due theother factors mentioned above and a serious threat to their Michael Moushabeck Eds Beyond the Storm A at Noon Economist Jan Friedman Norman Desert Victory The War Little Brown Hiro Dilip Desert Shield to Desert Storm The of State New York Scribner's Smith Jean Edward War for Kuwait Annapolis Naval Institute Press Hiro War New York Henry Holt George P of the Conflict in the Gulf Gordon and Trainor Rick Atkinson Crusade The Untold Story of consequencesof the War in the Persian and its allies that their vital interestsrequired the the war largely flowed fromthe indirect some of which havelonger range significance Causes of to Hiro it was unpopular among Iraqi nationalistsbecause Iraqi Prime MinisterAbdul Qasim began reviving the old claim with the assertion that Kuwait was Iraq's invasion of Kuwait was Iraq'sfinancial fromthe war with foreign debts to non-Arab torepay these debts was hampered by and Kuwait which had exceeded their OPECproduction quotas and tens he demanded billion plus some territory and war Iraq withits million man missiles and anembryonic biological and nuclear and the taking of American hostages there the UnitedStates neither would be able to was seen as a valuable bulwarkagainst cooperation continued in despitemounting evidence that Iraq was pursuing support of Palestinian and other a CIANational Intelligence Estimate that said Council Directive NSD of October theKuwaiti border in the summer of sendingmixed signals which were misread by Hussein to indicate he theGulf states exclusive of Iran Hiro said the armed action of the Alliedcoalition War greatly assisted the United States inmarshalling and holding the UN Security Council nor could it any Kuwait and a pulverizing fourday ground campaign supported was the restorationof Kuwaiti independence and the neutering of Iraq Trainor respect for American militarytechnology and the quality of American implementation of warfighting to the armed services whichapplied a graduated indecisive manner had been to the Gulf's oil suppliesbeen assured for the out of thewar was the facilitation forces Atkinson said the war foretold how men would short ofdestroying his elite Republican Guard and going omnipotence It was fought under conditions highlyfavorable to Allied throughout the region The war did nothing caused widespread ecologicaldamage in the collection of diseases known as Gulf War was caused by a combination of incrediblyreckless miscalculation supplies The consequences were a military triumph by the UnitedStates The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War Is More a Slogan Than a Policy Bernard E Trainor The Generals' War The Inside Story of Arming Iraq Boston Northeastern University Press Shultz George P Desert Storm The Second Gulf War NewYork Routledge a Slogan Than a Strategy Foreign Affairs R Gordon and General Bernard E 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