«OPERATION “DESERT SABRE”» («OPERATION “DESERT SWORD”») (24-28TH FEBRUARY, 1991)
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This paper though the long-running war between Iran and Iraq had ended in a United Nations-brokered ceasefire in August 1988, by mid 1990 the two states had yet to begin negotiating a permanent peace treaty. When their foreign ministers met in Geneva that July, prospects for peace seemed bright. Two weeks later, however, Saddam Hussein delivered a speech in which he accused neighboring Kuwait of siphoning crude oil from their common border, claiming that Kuwait and Saudi Arabia were conspiring to keep oil prices low in an effort to pander to Western oil-buying nations.
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AUSA Background Brief, Army Equipment Performance in Operation Desert Storm, No. 34, Arlington, VA, April 1991.
AUSA Special Report, Beyond the Cold War: A Global Assessment, 1990, Arlington, VA, 1991.
AUSA Special Report, The U.S. Army in Operation Desert Storm: An Overview, Arlington, VA, June 1991.
Center for Strategic and International Studies, The Gulf War Military Lessons Learned: Interim Report of CSIS Study Group on Lessons Learned from the Gulf War, Washington, DC, July 1991.
Department of Defense, Conduct of the Persian Gulf Conflict: An Interim Report to Congress, Washington, DC, July 1991.
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