The Gulf War: How Oil Economies, Cultures, and Middle Eastern Powers Clashed with the West

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, marked the beginning of a crisis that would fundamentally transform the Middle East while ushering in a new era of international relations defined by American global hegemony and the precedence of precision warfare over traditional military doctrines. Saddam Hussein's decision to occupy his tiny but oil-rich neighbor represented the culmination of longstanding territorial disputes, economic pressur...