The Gulf War, 1990-91

Twentieth-Century Wars #8

by William Thomas Allison

Incorporating the latest scholarship, William Thomas Allison provides a concise overview of the origins, course, and outcomes of the first Gulf War, as well as the major issues and debates. Allison also examines the relevance of this war to other 20th-century conflicts and the ongoing situation in the region.

Genres: History, Military Fiction, Military History

208 pages, Paperback

First published October 2, 2012

About the author

William Thomas "Bill" Allison is Professor of Military History at Georgia Southern University, joining the faculty there in 2008 and serving as Chair of the Department of History from 2008 to 2010. He earned his Ph.D. in history at Bowling Green State University in 1995, then taught at the University of Saint Francis before joining the History Department at Weber State University from 1999-2008. During the 2002-2003 academic year, he was Visiting Professor in the Department Strategy and International Security at the USAF Air War College and he was Visiting Professor of Military History at the USAF School for Advanced Air and Space Studies from 2010-2011. He is currently the General Harold K. Johnson Visiting Chair in Military History at the US Army War College.

He is author of The Gulf War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), My Lai: An American Atrocity in the Vietnam War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), Military Justice in Vietnam: The Rule of Law in an American War (University Press of Kansas, 2007), The Tet Offensive (Routledge, 2008), among other works. He has presented papers and lectured at numerous conferences and universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, and the Australian Defence Force Academy. He is active in the Society for Military History and has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Military History. He has also served as a member of the Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee.

A native of Texas, he lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina, with his wife Jennifer and black lab Moose.

Reviews

[Osama · Rating 4 out of 5]

مرت منطقة الخليج بثلاثة حروب الكبرى وهي الحرب العراقية الإيرانية، حرب تحرير الكويت (عاصفة الصحراء)، وحرب احتلال العراق. ويتناول هذا الكتاب تفاصيل غزو العراق للكويت بما اسماه الرئيس العراقي بأم المعارك، وما أسماه بوش بعاصقة الصحراء. ويستعرض الكاتب بعض المقدمات التاريخية لهذه الحرب، وكيفية سيطرة الجيش العراقي على الكويت في ساعات قليلة، ونشأة التحالف الدولي لتحرير الكويت. كتاب قيم وموضوعي.

[Dale · Rating 5 out of 5]

Assigned reading at the US Army War College this short, compact, easy read has some real gems to chew on and reflect. Give a great back ground of Iraq and then moves into the strategic and operational approaches of the Americans in this war.

[viy]

ex: number 1000 of military history being methodoligcally unserious and intellectually impoverished. It must be because the whole field is blood subsidized airport novelists

[Dave Ives · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book if you're interested in and/or researching the First Gulf War. I was pleasantly surprised to discover this book goes into a lot of detail about the history of what lead up to the First Gulf War. It opened my eyes to a lot of the political behind the scenes "non-sense" that seems to get the US in trouble ... easy fix now; hard fix later.

Not necessarily an exciting read, but very well presented and researched. Great for understanding what, when, why and how of the First Gulf War.

I used this book as a reference while writing my second book "Yanks in the Outback" which is scheduled for kindle publication in Jun 2015.