The Gulf War: Peace in Our Times

Abstract

The Iran-Iraq War seems to defy understanding or resolution. It has endured for longer than any other major conflict since World War II, with the exception of the Vietnam War, and in doing so it has defied various predictions about the nature of war between developing nations as well as every effort to negotiate a settlement. The circumstances of the regional environment, the goals of the belligerents, and the weight of effort committed versus results achieved do not lead to optimism about an end to the war in the near future. For those of us who are observers to this seemingly senseless slaughter in an area of vital economic and strategic importance, it is essential that we try to understand the war and to discover means to contain it an perhaps ultimately to help end it.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA521544

Entities

People

  • W. J. Olson

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Developing Nations
  • Information Operations
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • Iran Iraq War
  • Iraqi-War
  • Second World War
  • Vietnam War
  • War
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Strategic Security Studies