The Gulf War of 1980-1988. The Iran-Iraq War in International Legal Perspective. Edited by Ige F. Dekker and Harry H. G. Post. (T.M.C. Asser Institut, The Hague.) Dordrecht, Boston, London: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1992. Pp. xix, 311. Index. $122.50.

1994 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 401-403
Author(s):  
Christopher C. Joyner
Keyword(s):  
Iraq War ◽  
Gulf War ◽  
Legal Perspective ◽  
The Hague

Russia and the Iraq War: was Putin’s policy a failure?

2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galia Golan
Keyword(s):  
Iraq War ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gulf War ◽  
International Crisis ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
Russian President ◽  
Post War ◽  
Vladimir Putin

Although Russian President Vladimir Putin has been faced with numerous crises since coming to office in 2000, most importantly the war in Chechnya, the Iraq War was the first major international crisis with which his administration was confronted. As in the case of Kosovo for Yeltsin, and the Gulf War for Gorbachev, the Russian President had to deal with conflicting domestic pressures and apparently still more conflicting Russian national and international interests. Indeed, one result of such a situation was a post-war accusation that Putin actually had no policy or at least no consistent policy with regard to the Iraq crisis [Golan, G., 1992. Gorbachev’s difficult time in the Gulf. Political Science Quarterly 107 (2), 213–230]. One may remember similar accusations of Gorbachev’s ‘‘zigzaging’’ in the Gulf War and claims that the Yeltsin government failed to forge a Kasovo policy altogether [Levitin, O., 2000. Inside Moscow’s Kosovo muddle. Survival 42 (1), 130]. Yet, a certain pattern did appear to repeat itself in the Iraqi crisis, namely, pre-war efforts to prevent a military conflict from breaking out, then gradual escalation of rhetoric if not actual involvement, and finally gradual but relatively rapid retreat to conciliatory posture toward the United States (in all three crises). Moreover, Putin was indeed consistent throughout the pre-crisis, crisis and post-crisis periods in his opposition to the Americans’ use of force against Iraq and in the need to remain within a United Nations framework. Actually, one might ask (and we shall below) why Putin did not abandon the first part of this policy, in order to maintain the second component, when it became certain that the U.S. was going to attack, with or without UN Security Council approval.

Support Mechanisms and Vulnerabilities in Relation to PTSD in Veterans of the Gulf War, Iraq War, and Afghanistan Deployments: A Systematic Review

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 310-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Breanna K. Wright ◽  
Helen L. Kelsall ◽  
Malcolm R. Sim ◽  
David M. Clarke ◽  
Mark C. Creamer
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Iraq War ◽  
Gulf War ◽  
Support Mechanisms

Media under fire: Fact and fiction in conditions of war

2005 ◽  
Vol 87 (860) ◽  
pp. 639-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christiane Eilders
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Iraq War ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Gulf War ◽  
Information Control ◽  
Kosovo War ◽  
War Reporting

AbstractThe article reviews recentfindings on the quality of war reporting, the conditions under which it takes place, the information policies of the warring parties and their effects. Focusing on German media coverage of the 1991 Gulf war, the Kosovo war and the 2003 Iraq war, it discusses both typical shortcomings of reporting and recent improvements, highlights information control strategies and proposes standards for war reporting.

Lines of Sight: Watching War in Jarhead and My War: Killing Time in Iraq

PMLA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 124 (5) ◽  
pp. 1662-1676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacey Peebles
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Iraq War ◽  
Gulf War ◽  
Persian Gulf War ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Technologies Of Representation ◽  
The Persian Gulf

Jarhead, Anthony Swofford's 2003 memoir of the Persian Gulf War, and My War: Killing Time in Iraq, Colby Buzzell's 2005 memoir of the Iraq War, emphasize the authors' voyeuristic delight in watching war movies before and during their military service. What follows their enthusiastic consumption of “military pornography,” however, is a crisis of nonidentification and a lingering uncertainty about the significance of war in their own lives. Swofford and Buzzell find that the gaze they initially wielded is turned on them, and in response Swofford roils with sexually coded anger and frustration while Buzzell chooses to amplify his exposure by starting a blog. The two memoirs, then, provide a compelling account of the relation between changing technologies of representation and the experience of postmodern war. These lines of sight, all targeting the spectacle of combat, reveal the contemporary intersections among war, media, and agency.

scholarly journals The Iraq war: experience of a trainee surgeon away from the EWTD

2007 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-31
Author(s):  
SJ Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Iraq War ◽  
Gulf War ◽  
The West ◽  
Field Hospital ◽  
Active Service ◽  
West Midlands ◽  
Trainee Surgeon ◽  
Surgical Career ◽  
Part Time ◽  
War Experience

Senior colleagues often tell the modern trainee surgeon that apparently arduous, long hours can provide some of the best and most rewarding training of a surgical career. In 2003 I was an SHO in general surgery in the West Midlands serving as a part-time territorial officer with 202 Field Hospital (Volunteer). Under the Reserve Forces Act (1996) I was called up for active service in the second Gulf war.

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