Persian Gulf

Principal Decisions. The group decided to take three principle actions involving the use of military forces in the Persian Gulf. Our first decision was in response to Iran smuggling automatic rifles and hand held rocket launchers in Saudi Arabia to aid Saudi rebels. The Joint Chief of Staff recommended a higher military presence. As a result, the President ordered 120 special ops to move secretly and strategically into Dhahran to counter the influx of light arms. The next decision was in response to an attack on Saudi Arabia’s North Eastern base. Despite little information on the attack, the President and Joint Chief of Staff recommended moving 550 troops from the Kuwaiti base to assist in defending the base. Finally our last decision…

Persian Gulf War The Persian Gulf war had affected the whole world in a negative way during after 1991, influencing around 30 nations to join and fight in the war, it also affected U.S.’s economy, and many oil wells in Kuwait were lost due to Iraq’s temper towards their enemies. Saddam Hussein, president of Iraq was in debt because of the previous war with Iran and this, along with Iraq’s greed for oil influenced Iraq to invade Kuwait and take over their rich oil plants. This incident was not…

The Persian Gulf War The months between August 1990 and February 1991 consisted of a major foreign crisis within the Persian Gulf region that transitioned into the Persian Gulf War. During this eight month span, several military decisions made by Iraqi forces and the coalition forces led to a swift allied victory. To start, Iraqi forces under control of Saddam Hussein invaded the small, neighboring country of Kuwait in early August 1990. In response, Saudi Arabia called on the U.S. to provide…

What is the Persian Gulf War? “Bang, Bang”. Imagine you are an innocent civilian living in Kuwait. All of a sudden, you are utterly startled by the sound of guns and bombs going off. You are under attack! What would you do if you were this person? This scenario would take place during the Persian Golf War, which took place in 1990-1991. Forty two days later, U.S. President George H.W. Bush declared a cease fire. This was pretty unnecessary considering that most of the people who attacked…

Persian Gulf War (1990 - 1991) The Persian Gulf War started with Iraq’s invasion to Kuwait (major supplier of oil to the US) on August 2, 1990 ordered by its dictator Saddam Hussein to acquire oil reserves and pay off debts (acquired after Iraq’s eight year war against Iran), implying a threat to Saudi Arabia as this nation is another major oil supplier. If Iraq achieved to invade the last nation mentioned, it would own a great percentage of the worldwide oil supply. The United Nations asked…

The Persian Gulf War began on August 2nd, 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait. Iraq ended up against a coalition of about 30 Nations, led by the United States and mandated by the United Nations to liberate Kuwait. The invasion was met with immediate economic sanctions by the United Nations against Iraq. The war progressed, and eventually Iraq was defeated. My uncle, Mark Sunderland, served in the Persian Gulf War. He served for 21 years in the Air Force and retired as a Master Sergeant. Also, Shelly…

The entire world depends on the Middle East for its oil needs. The Gulf War caused a lot of physical and emotional distress to war veterans. During the war, large amounts of oil were released into the Gulf Sea. This damaged the entire ecosystem possibly killing wildlife that lived in the sea. As far as regional effects, Iraq suffered, they not only suffered loss in military equipment but infrastructure as well which takes years and billions of dollars to rebuild. Globally, it impacted every…

An Introduction The Second Persian Gulf War, more commonly referred to as the Iraq War, was an extensively long-lasting international armed conflict that found its beginnings on March 20th, 2003, spurred by an invasion carried out by a United States-led coalition with the aims of overthrowing the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict consisted of two phases: a brief, conventionally fought war that had taken place throughout the duration of March 2003 to April 2003, as well as the far…

In the article “Persian Gulf Heat: It May Become too Hot for Humans to Survive, Study Warns,” Brandon Miller, a CNN meteorologist, writes about how the Middle East could become uninhabitable by the year 2100. Humans have been hearing about the effect of climate change for a long time now, but many of them don’t really enter our minds as a big problem. This new study is different. Authors from Loyola Marymount University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have put out a disturbing…

They both were polytheistic, in that they believed that different gods ruled different parts of the world. As this may only be a small part of the Sumerian and Greek society they both have similar concepts. Although many aspects of Sumerian and Greek societies were very similar, there are several differences. Some of those differences include education and location. The location of the Sumerian's is located near the Persian Gulf, next to Arabia, while the Greeks are located on a peninsula on the…