The world has existed amidst a set of wars and conflicts that have shaped political systems, governments, and humanitarian associations. Gulf War is one of the universal and all time conflicts that rocked the world. With equitable measures and categorical procedures, philosophies, missions, and visions of these wars, this piece of study exemplifies Gulf War as one of America's participatory wars in the world. The article tries to establish the basement of Gulf War together with its consequences and responses it received from the United States of America and the world as a whole.
and the Middle East have been on good terms for quite some time. Various wars between the U.S. And countries including Iraq have occurred. In such instances, military deployment by the U.S. government is intense supported by its foreign policies. This study focuses on the 1990/91 Gulf War. The America's paradoxical love-hate relationship with the Gulf War reflects how the war influenced the general American warfare policy from the time of occurrence up-to-date.
The Gulf War period
The Persian Gulf War occurred between 2 August 1990 and 28 February 1991. It is not known whether the Gulf War was the formulation and leadership of the United States of America to attack the Iraq soldiers and government over its invasion and annexation of Kuwait. During this period, several wars had been reported to occur in and outside the United States of America. Cold War was establishing its gradual features.
The war was ready to explode. Several nations were under vigilance in guard of their property and human interaction. Iraq attacks on Kuwait destabilized business activities between the country and the U.S. Most of the oil and its products used in the United States of America were acquired from the Persian Gulf. The oil reserves in Kuwait acted as points of contention where many nations had diverse interests in them. In a move to stop any further cuts on the expanse of oil in the region, it became apparent that the U.S. had to send almost above half a million soldiers to take guard of the Persian Gulf.
The Gulf War was philosophical in nature. There was no direct reattribute to stage the war. Nonetheless, the United States of America was likely to be aware of the intentions of Iraq in trying the invasion and annexation Kuwait. The soviet policy suffered during the war. The war took away a number of soviet interests. The war was intense and formative as it took a long process of gradual formation and development on the foreign policy of Soviet Union. The interests of the Soviets were undergoing sweeping changes just before the culmination of the Gulf War. Other nations that had their policies close to the Gulf War were Moscow and the United States of America. With the issuance of stern leadership policies compressed within missions and mission statements, it was hard for the U.S. To evade its involvement in the Gulf War (S-a-diq and John 54).
America's paradoxical love-hate relationship with the war
The American behavior during the Gulf War was notable and describable in several ways. In one of the perspectives taken by the writers of history, Americans assumed a paradoxical love towards what the nation was doing as a family. On the other hand, most Americans were against the activities that took place during the Gulf War. They expressed hate towards the government and its technicalities like soldiers and ideologies employed during the war.
The Gulf War period gave Americans an advancing moment in the meeting to the interpretations of the war. In the first place, Americans expressed that nothing good could come out of the war. This was mired by widespread exaggerations within neo-isolationism together with global unilateralism. Before the occurrence of war, several trade policies had been established in order to unify the country and embrace corporation with other nations. Several nations expressed interests over American participation in the war though this was not subject to the immediate decisions to be made by the American citizens. The process was a common happening in many nations that seek to established equitable states of existence and correlation with other nations in the world. According to studies, many Americans are known to have facets of swinging back and forth when it comes to handling issues relating their nation. They possess an inward and outward orientation that makes them swing from one opinion to another before engaging in rightful activities. The period of Gulf War exposed most Americans and almost made them to express their innate desires to live within the aspects of the division. Nonetheless, this never came to be.
According to the recent debate on revivalists and declinists, the American nation together with its citizens embraced what is called imperial overstretch. This was the case during the period of Gulf War. Apart from suffering this feature, the state was falling in status at a rate that could not be expected by many people including its citizens. The decision to engage in the Gulf War was employed at the expense of the citizens and the state security (Lowry 78). The Gulf War acted as a staging ground where many Americans disregarded their principles and approaches embraced by their leaders in establishing a relationship between the conflicting nations.
The costs or amount of resources utilized during the war was immense and exceeded the original estimates. The citizens of the country had to carry on the burden of having the nation's soldiers participate in the Gulf War. The occurrence of Gulf War did not please many American because it did not alter the already deteriorating measures of financial stabilities of the nation. The finances that were supposed to be spend by the defense rose to almost four percent of the general gross national product during the happening of the Gulf War. The U.S. government had to conceive and implement measures to cater for the common needs of the common citizens who had difficulties in relaying the need of participating in this war.
According to research done in 1998, half of the Americans had the belief that America was declining in its economic dominance in the global market. In order to counter the effects of this decline, financial structures that were in place had to be reviewed and renewed in order to cater for the unique needs that could seek to alleviate the problems being experienced by the nation. The happenings prior and during the Gulf War appeared to correct and exaggerate on the economic status of the nation as a whole. Not enough apparatus had been put in place in order to cater for the common interests in the societies. This shifted the attention and concern of many Americans in the United States. Therefore, the occurrence of the Gulf War acted as major catalysts in exploring what was taking place in the American precepts of engaging in war activities (K-h-a-n? 87). With this regard, many citizens of the U.S. were against the invasion or involvement in the Gulf War.
Many agendas were pressing on the U.S. economy during the looming periods of the Gulf War. For instance, domestic issues were pressing on and required citizens to get back to work in aid of these agendas. In general, many Americans wanted their diplomatic stabilities to be laid within the nation with total avoidance of engaging in wars with other nations (Murdico 78). This was to be reflected by the government through avoidance of sending defense forces on war claims. Besides, the scheme required the citizens to stay in peace and avoid engaging in the Gulf War.
On the other hand, the U.S. participation in the Gulf War was executed in pursuit of a number of targets. For instance, the American losing of Gulf oil was bitter and unaffordable by the U.S. state and its economic stability. The U.S. had much dependence on the gulf oil and hence had no other option other to engage in the war and protect its oil reserves. Moreover, the changing trends in oil prices had necessitated that the United States of America engage in the Gulf War in order to lounge its bid for lower process of oil in the global market. Most owners of the oil fields like Saddam Hussein had increased the prices of oil exported to foreign nations. These frustrated many entrants of the global market who needed oil. As a result, it became possible and apparent that most Americans were now for U.S. engagement in the Gulf War. High oil prices in the U.S. meant two defined things: large impacts and interruptions to the economy by the shocks due to high oil prices. Most Americans knew the effects to be brought by such occurrences, and most of which were to be escalated by the presence of the Gulf War without the U.S. intervention in order to protect its economy (Santella 87).
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