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The US Involvement in Desert Storm
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The US Involvement in Desert Storm
An analysis of the factors contributing to the US involvement in the military Operation Desert Storm.
2,172 words (approx. 8.7 pages) |
8 sources |
MLA | 2007
Paper Summary:
This paper discusses the factors that influenced the United States to become involved in Operation Desert Storm. The paper describes issues of international law, the US' dependency on oil, regional alliances and the need to satisfy an issue of prestige. It then discusses how all of these reasons contributed to the US involvement in the military operations involving Kuwait.From the Paper:
"Aside from the geostrategic, political or economic reasons that would have completely justified the intervention of the American forces against Saddam, there was also a matter of prestige for the newly crowned leader of the free world. The US had now become the only super power, thus defeating its fifty-year foe, the USSR. Even if the actual confirmation would come late in 1992, the Cold War had ended with the victory of capitalism over communism, democracy over authoritarianism, the US over the USSR. Still, this state of fact had to be visible to the international community as well. Thus, a strong military deployment of forces in the name of a just cause, that of defending another state, was the ultimate proof of the power the US enjoyed following demise of the Soviet Union."Sample of Sources Used:
- Calvocoressi, Peter. World politics since 1945. (Budapest: Open Society Institute, 1996)
- Fingrut, David. Operation Desert Storm. Out right disinformation scheme. SEED Alternative School. Toronto, 1993. 23 March 2007. http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/Vietnam/gulf-war-fingrut.html#Bush
- Head, William, and Earl H. Tilford, eds. The Eagle in the Desert Looking Back on U.S. Involvement in the Persian Gulf War. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996.
- IR Theory in Practice Case Study: The Gulf War, 1990-1991. (n.d) 23 March 2007. http://www.gulfweb.org/
- Luerdijk, Dick A., and Beernink, Stella. Decision-making by the Security Council: the situation between Iraq and Kuwait, 1990-2002. A survey of resolutions. Netherlands Institute of International Relations. 2002. 23 March 2007. www.clingendael.nl
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