Contract W911NF-09-1-0105 (Monterey Institute of International Studies)

Abstract

This report highlights the work of this project from September 2012 to September 2013, including: papers on the internal workings of the Saddam Hussein regime; comparisons with the workings of the Bashar al-Asad regime; the policies of both regimes regarding the use of chemical weapons against domestic adversaries; the policies of Saddam Hussein with respect inflicting casualties against Iranian civilians during the Iran-Iraq war; and Saddam Hussein's attitudes toward developing and using chemical and biological weapons, more generally. The key source for this work has been the archive of documents of the Saddam Hussein regime (including transcripts of meetings of key leaders) captured by U.S. and Coalition forces in Kuwait in 1991 and Baghdad in 2003, available through the Conflict Records Research Center, National Defense University.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 08, 2014
Accession Number
ADA606575

Entities

People

  • Amy Smithson
  • Egle Murauskaite
  • Ibrahim Al-marashi
  • Leonard S. Spector
  • Raymond Zilinskas

Organizations

  • Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Agreements
  • Biological Weapons
  • Chemical Weapons
  • Civil War
  • Insurgency
  • International Organizations
  • Iran Iraq War
  • Iraqi-War
  • Middle East
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Social Sciences
  • Students
  • War
  • Weapons
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation and International Security
  • Strategic Security Studies