LONG STRANGE JOURNEY
Eddington, Patrick G.
January 2011 marks the 20th anniversary of the start of Operation Desert Storm, as well as two decades of continuous American military involvement in the Persian Gulf region. A number of questions about that first Gulf War and its consequences have never been answered. Why was President George H.W. Bush so surprised that Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait? Did America's intelligence community fail to warn him of the threat, or did he ignore their p...