Abstract
On the first day of August 1990, Iraqi troops rolled into Kuwait. Less than six months later, the United States, under the presidency of George H. W. Bush, initiated an aerial bombardment of Iraqi forces. On February 24, 1991, Allied troops, under the command of an American general, launched a ground assault against Iraq’s forces. One hundred hours after the start of the assault, the US president ordered a cease-fire—Kuwait had been liberated. Just prior to that time, Bush and his senior advisers met to discuss whether the Allied forces should march toward Baghdad in order to topple Saddam Hussein’s regime. They agreed that they should not.
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Notes
Lawrence Freedman and Efraim Karsh, The Gulf Conflict, 1990–1991 ( Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993 ), 85.
See Majid Khadduri and Edmund Ghareeb, War in the Gulf, 1990–1991: The Iraqi-Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications ( New York: Oxford University Press, 1997 ), 85.
George H. W. Bush and Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed ( New York: Alfred Knopf, 1998 ), 323.
Bob Woodward, The Commanders ( New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991 ), 320.
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Hybel, A.R. (2014). George H. W. Bush and the Gulf War. In: US Foreign Policy Decision-Making from Kennedy to Obama. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137397690_4
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