U.S. Marines in Battle Al-Khafji: 28 January - 1 February 1991

by Paul W. Westermeyer

In August 1990, Iraqi military forces invaded the neighboring nation of Kuwait. The invasion was part of an expansionist foreign policy that President Saddam Hussein established a decade earlier when he invaded post-revolution Iran. The Iraqi invasion of Iran failed, degenerating into a decade long war of attrition, but Kuwait was an easier target. Kuwait had financed the Iraq-Iran War for Iraq, but refused to forgive the debt, and Iraq accused Kuwait...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475059809
• ISBN13: 9781475059809
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"