Description: Preface The Failure of Diplomacy --Both Sides Miscalculated, The Congress Backs the President, When the War Comes The Air Battle --Launching Operation Desert Storm, Continuing Uncertainties, The Debate Over a Just War Diplomacy Aborted Again --Apprehension Over a Premature Cease-Fire, Wanted: A Victory on the Battlefield, Defining Objectives, The President's Ultimatum The 100-Hour Ground War --General Schwarzkopf and His "Hail Mary", The Most Popular War Ever, The Human Costs of "Victory" A Nation in Turmoil --The Permanent Cease-Fire, Rebellion in the South, Rebellion in the North, The Effects of Strategic Bombing, Eliminating Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction The Middle East --Status Quo Ante Bellum Kuwait: Justice and Democracy Can Wait, Arms Proliferation Continues Unabated, Gulf Security as Elusive as Ever, Mission Impossible: Settling the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Saddam Hussein Remains in Power, The New World Order Epilogue Appendixes Chronology Additional Reading Index

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