Gulf Oil

Hussein’s main objective seemed to be to get another ten percent of the world’s oil supply that was flowing beneath the teeny country, but it was more than that. After taking the oil, he hoped to reunite his own country with the money he made from additional oil sales. Iraq also owed a large sum of money to Kuwait for expenses in the Iran/Iraq war. Taking over Kuwait would cancel this debt. Hussein also clamed that he had fought the Iranians for the benefit of all Arab nations, and that Kuwait…

Korean War, Persian Gulf War, and the War in Afghanistan are three examples of Canada being a warrior in the post-war period. The Korean War lasted from 1950-1953. The Persian Gulf War took place in 1991-2001. The War in Afghanistan started in 2001 and ended in 2011. The Korean War was one of the conflicts in which Canada was a warrior. The Korean War started when the north and south could not decide on one type of government. There was a communist government…

Environment Looking at Saudi Arabia, we must first analyze what makes a massive, barren landscape hospitable to more than 31 million Saudis. 129,000 miles of border and 158 miles of coastline including the only country with both the Red Sea and Persian Gulf access makes Saudi Arabia a very viable trade route. What exports does this country produce to sustain itself and its military? How does Religion play into its politics? Where does the loyalty of its people lie and what systems are in place…

Operation Desert Fox occurred in Iraq from 16th – 19th of December 1998. Operation Desert Fox was a four day military bombing campaign organised by the United States of America and the United Kingdom. The United States and the United Kingdom justified the strikes as Iraq had not complied with the UNSC’s resolutions and kept interfering with the UNSC’s weapons inspectors. Another main reason the bombing occurred was to punish Saddam Hussein's regime with military force in the hope of removing…

country ,Kuwait, from the wrath of Saddam Hussein. On August 2, 1990 the country of Kuwait was invaded by Iran causing the start of the Gulf War. A massive attack was led by the dictator of Iran ,Saddam Hussein. The raid killed thousands and led to the destruction of over 700 thriving Kuwaiti oil refineries. Saddam’s actions had later constructed the beginning of the gulf war, an international conflict that had recrudescence during the the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. Soon after Saddam’s attack…

Middle Eastern Power, a reality that was masked for a time by the power and proximity to the region of the USSR (Page 9).” Khalidi believes that since the end of the cold war the U.S’s interest in the Middle East has grown greater and greater, like the Gulf war of 1991, and the Oslo accords in 1993. He closes the opening chapter by asking how the U.S. got itself into this situation…

Other Arab powers were shocked by this so they called the United States and other Western nations to intervene. Saddam Hussein refused to listen to the United Nations Security Council demands to withdraw from Kuwait by mid-January 1991, and the Persian Gulf War began with a huge U.S. air offense known as Operation Desert Storm. On January 17, 1991 Operation Desert Storm was initiated. According to John F. Stewart, “Desert Storm marked many firsts for Army Intelligence.” It was a 42-day U.S.…

Iraq invaded the Emirate of Kuwait. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion of Kuwait in response to Iraq’s perceived Kuwaiti actions to drive down the price of crude oil and Kuwaiti cash loans to Iraq. Saddam Hussein’s Seizure of Kuwait resulted in Iraq accumulating over 20% of the world’s current crude oil production. Iraq at the time possessed the 4th largest military force in the world of over one million soldier, including the Iraq Republican Guard, considered to be Iraq’s…

it suggests the use of state force was for their own economic gain, not to protect the sovereign Iraqi civilians. The U.S undoubtedly had interests in gaining access to oil reserves such as the Persian Gulf. “Thus, the primary motive of the war - mobilising Iraqi oil production to sustain global oil flows and moderate global oil prices”. Ahmed, N (2014). Further, displaying how the invasion of Iraq cannot be an example of humanitarian intervention. There are central increasing tensions between…

the history of the world. Operation desert storm AKA(the Gulf war) was caused by the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who sent troops into the tiny country of Kuwait. The problem with this was that Kuwait is one the world 's largest oil providers, and taking over Kuwait posed a threat to Saudi Arabia, which was another large oil provider. If Kuwait and Saudi Arabia were both taken by Hussein then he would be in control of ⅕ of the world 's oil supply. This posed a tremendous threat to the United…