A Report on Politics of the 1990s: Persian Gulf War

The Persian Gulf War began with Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq moving his forces into the neighboring country Kuwait mid-1990. During this time Iraq had the fourth largest army in the world, after being supplied by the United Sates during their eight year war with Iran raised some concerns. (Operation Desert Storm) Also with the chance of Iraq controlling one-fifth of the world’s oil supply didn’t sit well with the United States, nor its Allied forces. (Operation Desert Storm) Early August 1990 the United Nations Security Council directed Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait by 15 January 1991. (Operation Desert Storm) Towards the end of 1990 United Sates began the defense of Saudi Arabia, which known as Operation Desert Shield. Along with multilateral support, the United States sent

When the US and Allied forces positioned armed forces in Saudi Arabia and surrounding countries in the Persian Gulf, President George H W Bush issued deadlines for the Iraqis to leave Kuwait. Bush bombed strategic Iraqi targets on January 17, 1991 for 100 days and then sent in Ground Forces in February 1991. The ground campaign lasted only 100 hours.

Attending Georgetown University to study international affairs, Clinton served as an intern for Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas before receiving his B.S. degree in 1968. After winning a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University, Clinton returned to the United States to enroll at Yale Law School. In 1972 he helped to manage presidential candidate George McGovern 's campaign for Texas. After graduating from law school in 1973, Clinton returned to Arkansas to teach and to plan his political career. On Oct. 11, 1975, he married Hillary Rodham, a fellow law student he had met at Yale.

On August 2nd, 1990 Iraqi military forces invaded and occupied the small Arab state of Kuwait. The order was given by Iraqi dictatorial president Saddam Hussein. His aim was apparently to take control Kuwait's oil reserves (despite its small size Kuwait is a huge oil producer; it has about 10 per cent of the world's oil reserves ). Iraq accused Kuwait, and also the United Arab Emirates, of breaking agreements that limit oil production in the Middle East. According to Saddam Hussein, this brought down world oil prices severely and caused financial loss of billions of dollars in Iraq's annual revenue.

Desert Storm was the largest build up of U.S forces since the Vietnam War. Within a short period members of the 82nd Airborne Division as well as 300 combat aircraft were deployed to the Middle East. Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait with 120,000 military personnel 2,000 of which were tanks. Iraq’s Air Force at the time was the largest but it was week. They choose quantity over quality also, their Navy was virtually nonexistent. Iraq rolled over Kuwait in two days because Iraq owed $80 million in foreign debt from its war with Iran. Saddam Hussein demanded Saudi Arabia and Kuwait forgive $30 million in Iraq's debt. He accused Kuwait of stealing Iraqi oil through slant drilling. At the time Iraq had the fifth largest army in the world. They boasted more than a million men in uniform in 1991 but only a third of those were skilled professional fighting forces. Iraq rule over Kuwait was very brutal and harsh. America decided that it could not stand by had watch. By the end of September 1990 there were nearly 200,000 American personnel in Saudi Arabia enough to repel any Iraqi attack. The Gulf War coasted an estimation of 63 billion but, for the U.S this was a relatively cheap war. Over 18,000 fighter jets were deployed to combat the Iraqi Air Force. This was the most massive and effective air campaign ever with the U.S only losing 63 combat aircraft. Over a short period of time the Iraqi death toll was over 9,000 the U.S on the other hand only had 1 M.I.A soldier and 383 fatalities in the region more Americans died back home from H.I.V (29,850). The U.S captured over 70,000 enemy troops in the eight months that the war took place. This war brought many new technologies, the Army and Air Force were supplied with most of the new tech. The Marines on the other hand were issued with Vietnam dated gear and outdated version of newer tanks, aircraft, and guns. The U.S military at the time of desert storm used M16A1 M16A2 Car-15 XM4 Carbine M60 MP5 M249 m240 M9 M1911 Barret M82 M24 sniper M2HB M72Law M16 and M47 Dragon. The U.S also a new and advanced platform of tanks known as the M1 series. They used the M1 Abrams MBT

Bill Clinton, whose original name is William Jefferson Blythe III, was born on August 17, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas. Three months before his birth, his father died in a car accident. When Clinton was four years old, his mother, Virginia Dell Kelley, got married to Roger Clinton. Bill Clinton adopted his last name after his stepfather. He excelled as a student and as a saxophone player and once considered becoming a professional musician (Frank Freidel and Hugh Sidey.) When Clinton was in High School he had the opportunity to meet President John Kennedy at the White House Rose Garden. After the meeting with Kennedy, Bill Clinton began to being interested in public service. The 42nd

On August 2, 1990, Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, attacked Kuwait as a result of overproduction of oil in Kuwait, which had cost Iraq an estimated $14 billion a year when oil process of obtaining the

President William Clinton, also known as Bill Clinton, was born in the year 1964. Initially named William Clinton Blythe, he was born in the small town of Hope, Arkansas. Due to his father dying in a car crash his mother moved to New Orleans, Louisiana to attend nursing school. President Clinton stayed with his grandparents. Clinton gives his grandparents the credit

William Jefferson Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. His father, William J. Blythe III was killed in an automobile collision just two months before William’s birth. At age four, William Jefferson Blythe IV was legally adopted by his mothers second husband, Roger Clinton, making him William Jefferson Clinton.

Bill entered politics in Arkansas, and was defeated in his campaign for Congress in Arkansas’s Third District in 1974. Bill married Hillary Rodham the following year, a graduate of Wellesley College and Yale Law School, in 1980. He only had one child named Chelsea. Clinton was elected Arkansas Attorney General in 1976, and won the governorship in 1978. He regained office four years after losing a bid for a second term, and served until he defeated George Bush and third party candidate Toss Perot in the 1992 presidential race and became the President on January 20, 1993. He was Governor of Arkansas from 1979-1981 and 1983-1992) Bill’s vice President was Albert Gore Jr. Both White House and Congress were held by the same party for the first time in 12 years, but the Republicans won both houses in 1994. Bill Clinton was a Democratic President under the United States.

After graduating from Oxford University, Clinton attended Yale University where he studied Law. While there, Clinton kept his concentration in government by campaigning for Senator Candidates in Connecticut. While at Yale, Clinton also met Hillary Rodham, whom he would later marry on October 11, 1975. When Clinton graduated from Yale University in 1973, he returned to Arkansas to teach at the University of Arkansas Law School.

Hillary Clinton was born on October 26, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois. She went to Yale University for law school and met her her future husband, Bill Clinton in 1975.Her husband became the president and she became the first lady from 1993 to 2001. She became a US senator and eventually she became a presidecial nominee in

As soon as the invasion the happened, President Bush, as a leader, believed that helping Kuwait against Iraq was on behalf of the United State’s national interest. Kuwait is one of the most important export oil country and a huge amount of the United States’s oil comes from import. Once Iraq take over Kuwait and seize the major oil fields of Saudi Arabia and raise the oil price, American economic will face a heavy losses. However, oil was not the only reason. The most important reason for President Bush is that on the one hand, in his mind, helping Kuwait was a matter of principle: Help the good against the evil. On the other hand, U.S. military involve would improve America's international credibility, especially in this first major crisis

Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion and occupation of neighboring Kuwait in early August 1990. Alarmed by these actions, fellow Arab powers such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt called on the United States and other Western nations to intervene. Hussein defied United Nations Security Council demands to withdraw from Kuwait by mid-January 1991 and the Persian Gulf War began with a massive U.S.-led air offensive known as Operation Desert Storm4. After 42 days of relentless attacks by the allied coalition in the air and on the ground, U.S. President George H.W. Bush declared a cease-fire on February 28; by that time, most Iraqi forces in Kuwait had either surrendered or run away. Though the Persian Gulf War was initially considered an unqualified success for the international coalition, simmering conflict in the troubled region led

The latest developments that just unfolded in Riyadh are unsettling and carry a high risk of a regional confrontation. An assertive Saudi crown prince is determined to consolidate power by purging dissidents at home while escalating rhetoric abroad.