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The Mother of All Battles: Saddam Hussein's Strategic Plan for the Persian Gulf War | 
 enlarge | Author: Kevin M. Woods
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 952139
Media: Paperback
Pages: 336
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 1
ISBN: 1591149428
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.70443
EAN: 9781591149422
ASIN: 1591149428
Publication Date: August 15, 2008
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Product Description
Events in this story of the 'Mother of All Battles,' as Saddam designated
the 1991 war, are drawn from primary Iraqi sources, including government documents, videos, audiotapes, maps, and photographs captured by U.S. forces in 2003 from the regime's archives and never intended for outsiders eyes.
The book is part of an official U.S. Joint Forces Command research project to examine contemporary warfare from the point of view of the adversary's archives and senior leader interviews. Its purpose is to stimulate thoughtful analyses of currently accepted lessons of the first Gulf War. While not a comprehensive history, the author's balanced Iraqi perspective of events between 1990 and 1991 takes full advantage of his unique access to material.
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Eye Opening August 28, 2008
Historian (Arlington, VA United States)
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An absolutely fascinating book!
I believe I have read almost everything published on Desert Storm, some good and some bad. However, despite that I only had half the story, as we had know way of knowing what was going on the Iraqi side. Kevin Woods has solved that problem. He apparently had unparalleled access to captured Iraqi documents and he has used them to create a fascinating story of our 1991 Gulf War from the perspective of our enemy. Woods had already done this brilliantly with his look at the Iraqi side of the 2003 invasion, so I had high hopes for this book. I was not disappointed!
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