Even though the US maintains overwhelming military preponderance in the region, it's an illusion to believe that restoring the uninterrupted flow of oil would be quick or easy in the face of a determined Iranian campaign to interdict shipping and to damage critical energy infrastructure in the Gulf...…
MC-4Q Triton drone above the Persian Gulf today…In Iran's assessment, President Trump will not dare to act against it since war with Iran will ensure that he will not be reelected. ..…
Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam war: On August 2, 1964, North Vietnamese PT boats attacked the U.S.S. Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin. This could not have surprised those in the know inside the U.S. government. ..…
Mary Smith Fawzi and Sarah Zaidi, found that “as many as 576,000 Iraqi children may have died since the end of the Persian Gulf war because of economic sanctions imposed by the Security Council.” ..…
Bush (the Gulf War, launched on fake pretences with a claim, false, of an impending Iraqi invasion of Saudi Arabia, Invasion of Panama), to Bill Clinton (War on Serbia and Kosovo, War on Iraq in the form of a no-fly zone imposition and crippling sanctions on needed, items like chlorine for..…
The quantum leaps in those returns came after Persian Gulf War and the invasion of Iraq.. The number of claims, prior to Gulf War means that enlisted at 17 was not resonant with Americans processed their World War II, Korean War, or even post- Vietnam War experience. ..…
In Syria too, it was the US, along with its Western allies, Gulf monarchies, Turkey and Jordan who hijacked the Syrian revolution and whipped up a sectarian war in order to topple Bashar Al-Assad. ..…
Following the first Gulf War, Hussein emblazoned the religious words “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) on the Iraqi flag and launched al-Hamla al-Imaniyeh (religious campaign) to emphasize Islam’s unique and comprehensive role in society. ..…
Even if Trump's White House decides there is a case for war in the seeming provocations taking place in the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, they are very unlikely to take the case to the United Nations. ..…
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