This project works through some rhetorical dimensions of the media coverage of the 1991 U.S.-led war against Iraq. On a theoretical level I introduce the question of rhetoric as a deceptive performance of subjectivity that covers over its interests and internal divisions. This t…
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Immigrants have always played an important role in the United States economy. The purpose of this study was to examine the adaptation of Arab immigrants and refugees who left their countries due to the invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990 and resettled in the Tri-county of Great…
The humanitarian toll of economic sanctions on Iraq extends beyond observed negative effects on public health, affecting reduction in net primary school enrollment rates. These negative effects are distinct and separate from changes in enrollment caused by war. Using time series…
This study examines the military interventionary behavior of four democratic states—the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Canada—during the post-Cold War era. Using a data set created for the purposes of this examination, the variations in these states' intervention…
A population-based, cohort study was conducted to determine the importance of Gulf War deployment to Southwest Asia, from 1 August 1990 to 31 December 1991, in explaining neurologic mortality and peripheral nerve disease among United States military working dogs. The study cohor…
This thesis looks at the evolution of the collective memory and its influence on the behaviour of the federal government, the political elites and the public opinion in Germany between 1989 and 1999. The research is based on five case studies: the Gulf War, the independence of C…
Until the Gulf War, no Japanese politician could seriously hope to dispatch the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) overseas. It was off-limits. But contrary to what is commonly believed, Japanese decision-makers did not feel comfortable providing only money while the economy grew. Knowin…
This dissertation investigates Turkish foreign policy during two Iraq wars by focusing on the role of the Turkish parliament. In the Gulf War (1991), Turkey opened its bases to American aircraft used to attack Iraq. In contrast, during the War on Iraq (2003), Turkey did not allo…
This dissertation explores the ways in which Americans constructed a public discourse about gender relations in Muslim countries from the Iranian Revolution through the post-9/11 period. It argues that discourse significantly influenced U.S. foreign policy in recent decades. In …
US Army Rangers 1989-2015: Panama to Afghanistan
by Dennis, Peter, Neville, Leigh
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Type: Book
"In 1986 the 75th Ranger Regiment, which was granted the lineage of the World War II Ranger battalions and Merrill's Marauders, was established as elite airborne light infantry trained for short-duration missions ... this book ... tells the story of their evolution in battle."--