The Strategy of United States of America towards Iraq between the First and Second Gulf Wars (1988- 1991)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36473/ujhss.v62i2.2123Keywords:
Strategy, American, Gulf, Iraqi WarAbstract
There is no doubt that the name of Iraq has been associated with the United States of America as well as its strategy in recent decades, especially during the first and second Gulf wars, leading to its occupation of it in 2003, so this study attempts to deal with the American strategy towards Iraq between these two wars, to identify the merits of this strategy, And its goals, as well as the reasons for its transformations, the repercussions of which continued until the present time. The study reached several conclusions, the most important of which is that the American strategy towards Iraq during this period was in the form of a declared policy represented in deceiving the Iraqi regime that the United States is a supportive country for it, during the first Gulf War and beyond, by continuing to provide its army with weapons, equipment, and training. At the same time, an undeclared policy was to implicate Iraq and push it to occupy Kuwait through several means, with the aim of destroying its military and economic strength. First, to keep it away from threatening its allies and interests in the region, and also to give it a justification for entering forcefully into the Arabian Gulf region and controlling it second, this is what the second Gulf War achieved.
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