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Informationen zum Autor Robert K. Brigham is the Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations at Vassar College, USA. He is the author of numerous publications on American foreign relations including Iraq, Vietnam and the Limits of American Power (2008) and Is Iraq Another Vietnam? (2006). Klappentext This book offers a concise history of US policy in Iraq since 1990 and how it has evolved over two decades.* Examines US relations with Iraq from both a regional and international perspective* Argues that the only way to clearly understand US policy toward Iraq is to see it in its proper historical context and within a transnational framework* Uses recently declassified documents at the end of each chapter to illustrate US decision-making in the wars for Iraq* Addresses the importance of the changing domestic climate surrounding two decades Zusammenfassung This book offers a concise history of US policy in Iraq since 1990 and how it has evolved over two decades. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xiiiAcknowledgments xvDramatis Personae xviiMaps xxii1 The First Gulf War, 1990-1991 1Chronology 1George H.W. Bush and the New World Order 8Iraq Invades Kuwait 10Building the Coalition against Saddam 15Operation Desert Storm 20Documents: 29Document 1-A, Excerpts from National Security Directive 26, "U.S. Policy Toward the Persian Gulf," October 2, 1989 29Document 1-B, Meeting between Saddam Hussein and U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie, excerpts from April Glaspie memorandum, July 25, 1990 31Document 1-C, United Nations Resolution 660, August 2, 1990 33Document 1-D, United Nations Resolution 678, November 29, 1990 34Document 1-E, Excerpts from National Security Directive 54, January 15, 1991 35Document 1-F, Excerpts from speech by Saddam Hussein, February 11, 1991, Iraqi News Agency-Baghdad Radio 372 Clinton and Containment, 1992-2001 39Chronology 39Containment Plus 52Regime Change 54Documents: 64Document 2-A, Excerpts from United Nations Resolution 687, April 6, 1991 64Document 2-B, Excerpts from "Intelligence Successes and Failures in Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm," U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Armed Services, 103rd Congress, 1st session, August 1993 73Document 2-C, Excerpts from the remarks of Anthony Lake, assistant to the president for national security affairs, "From Containment to Enlargement," Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C., September 21, 1993 74Document 2-D, Remarks of the Honorable Ibrahim M. Al-Shaheen, deputy chairman of the Kuwaiti National Committee for P.O.W.s in Iraq, August 6, 2006, U.S. House Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations 80Document 2-E, Letter dated May 5, 2001, from the permanent representative of Iraq to the United Nations addressed to the secretary general, United Nations, New York 81Document 2-F, Text of President Clinton's address to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Pentagon staff, Washington, D.C., February 17, 1998 84Document 2-G, Project for a New American Century, Statement of Principles, June 3, 1997 903 The Invasion of Iraq, 2003 93Chronology 93Connecting Terrorists to Iraq 96The Bush Doctrine 100The Legal Debate 109The War Plan 111The War Begins 114Documents: 120Document 3-A, Excerpts from George W. Bush's State of the Union address, January 29, 2002 120Document 3-B, Excerpts from "The National Security of the United States of America," September 2002 122Document 3-C, "The Problem of the Shia," July 2002 123Document 3-D, Unclassifi ed report to Congress on the acquisition of technology relating to weapons of mass destruction and advanced conventional munitions, July 1-December 2002 136Document 3-E, Excerpts from H.J. 114, Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq, 107th Congress, 2nd session, October...
