Kategoria BISAC: History >> Wars & Conflicts - Persian Gulf War (1991)

This book provides the first comprehensive study of the evolution of the Iraqi military from the British mandate era to post-Baathist Iraq.

Ethnic and sectarian turmoil is endemic to Iraq, and its armed forces have been intertwined with its political affairs since their creation. This study illustrates how the relationship between the military and the political centre in Iraq has evolved, with the military bringing about three regime changes in Iraq's history before being brought under control by Saddam Hussein, up until the 2003 war. The instability that followed was...

Steve A. Yetiv has developed an interdisciplinary, integrated approach to studying foreign policy decisions, which he applies here to understand better how and why the United States went to war in the Persian Gulf in 1991 and 2003.

Yetiv's innovative method employs the rational actor, cognitive, domestic politics, groupthink, and bureaucratic politics models to explain the foreign policy behavior of governments. Drawing on the widest set of primary sources to date--including a trove of recently declassified documents--and on interviews with key actors, he applies these models to...

Am 21. Marz 1933 inszenierten die Nationalsozialisten mit dem "Tag von Potsdam" publikumswirksam den Schulterschluss der neuen Machthaber mit den alten, wilhelminischen Eliten aus Adel, Burgertum, Kirche und Militar. 80 Jahre nach dem Umbruchsjahr 1933 werden im vorliegenden Band die historischen Kontexte des "Tages von Potsdam]" als einer entscheidenden Wegmarke bei der Errichtung der nationalsozialistischen Diktatur noch einmal naher betrachtet. In neun Beitragen von renommierten Wissenschaftlern wird zunachst der Verlauf des "Tages von Potsdam" rekonstruiert, seine Bedeutung in der...

From its questionable debut over Panama, the shoot-down of a Nighthawk during Operation Allied Force over the former Yugoslavia, to the mind-boggling successes enjoyed by the type in the two Gulf Wars, this is the story of another 'Skunk Works' icon that took aircraft design and operational capabilities to previously unprecedented levels.

Even from the earliest days of 'dog-fighting', when pilots attempted to attack their advisories with the sun on their backs, one adage has held true - "you can't destroy what you can't see." Even with the advent of radar the precept remains valid,...