Dissertations / Theses: 'The Gulf War'

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Redmond, Daniel F. "American Persian Gulf policy after the Gulf War." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/26349.

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American policy in the Persian Gulf since the end of the Gulf war has dangerously overemphasized military instruments to protect United States interests in the region. This military focus suggests that threats to American interests are external and visible. At the same time it neglects the challenges posed to U.S. interests by internal political upheaval in the pro-American regimes of the Gulf Cooperation Council and ignores the societal disruptions associated with modernizing societies. Despite their considerable oil wealth, these polities will be increasingly vulnerable to instability if the regimes in power continue their monopoly on political power. Moreover, the highly visible and active presence of American armed forces in the Gulf today intensifies the perception of the U.S. as an imperial super power and unknowingly threatens to undermine the stability of the GCC states by providing opposition groups with a powerful symbol with which to challenge the political status quo....Persian Gulf War, U.S. Persian Gulf Policy, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Political Development in Arabian Peninsula, Modernization in Arabian Peninsula

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Musser, William G. "Terminating America's wars : the Gulf War and Kosovo." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2002. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/02Jun%5FMusser.pdf.

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Davis, Robert. "Canada and the Persian Gulf War." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ30939.pdf.

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Mendel, Jonathan Michael. "Virtual wars : a comparative analysis of the 1991 Gulf War and the 'War on Terror'." Thesis, Durham University, 2007. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1319/.

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This thesis maps out the development of virtual and networked warfare, from the anti-Soviet Afghan insurgency through to the 1991, Gulf War and the ongoing violence of the `war on terror'. I demonstrate that we have seen two parallel developments over the past few decades: the US has become able to dominate the fighting of large-scale, high-tech virtual wars, and opponents of US-led forces are able to deploy techniques of networked warfare that US-led forces cannot effectively combat. It is therefore the case that US-led `successes' in the major combat operations phases of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom are being followed by a US-led failure to deal with the networked warfare of Afghan, Iraqi and other insurgent groups. This thesis investigates the policy impact of these developments, and their broader ethical and political implications. I demonstrate that - if we are to ameliorate the ongoing bloodshed in Afghanistan and Iraq, and avoid carrying out additional military interventions that generate networked opposition to which we do not have an effective response- there is a real need for an ethical engagemenwt ith others,a nd for more effective participation in the ideational aspects of conflict.

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Gallegos, Frank. "After the Gulf War Balancing Spacepower's Development /." Maxwell AFB, Ala. : Air University Research Coordinator Office, 1998. http://www.au.af.mil/au/database/research/ay1995/saas/gallegf.htm.

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Wilcken, Patrick. "Anthropology, the intellectuals and the Gulf War." Cambridge : Prickly Pear, 1994. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/32394307.html.

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Zausmer, Stephanie. "A Just War Framework: Analyzing the 1991 Persian Gulf War and the 2003 Iraq War." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2004. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/735.

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Briggs, Rasha. "The Gulf War and the media : a critical analysis of western media representations of the politics of war in the Gulf /." Title page, synopsis and contents only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arb854.pdf.

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Brenchley, Thomas Frank. "Britain and the 1967 Arab-Israeli War." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327373.

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Keeble, Richard. "The Gulf War myth : a study of the press coverage of the 1991 Gulf conflict." Thesis, City University London, 1996. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/7932/.

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This thesis examines the UK and US press coverage of the 1991 Gulf conflict. It outlines the propaganda model of the press identified by Herman and Chomsky and, through a qualitative study of press content, examines the extent to which the predictions of the model are fulfilled in the coverage. The state systems involved are defined as new militarist and the special role played by the press in these systems is identified. In radically problematising the event, the study identifies the way in which broad historical factors (rather than any elite conspiracy) lay behind the press manufacture of the Gulf war spectacle. Interviews with journalists involved and references to many non-mainstream texts and perspectives (silenced or marginalised within the dominant ideological system) are incorporated. The thesis concludes that most of the expectations of the propaganda model were realised in the press coverage of the Gulf "war".

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Kenny, Frank J. "A Structural Equation Model Examining the Effects of Gulf War Stress Exposure on Subsequent Mental and Physical Health Problems among Gulf War Veterans." VCU Scholars Compass, 2004. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5728.

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The goal of this dissertation is to better understand the complex relationship between the stresses encountered by US. service personnel during the Gulf War and eventual physical and psychological health outcomes among its veterans. By developing and validating a stress model using structural equation modeling techniques, it is hoped that knowledge regarding wartime stress and its potential impact on the health of veterans will be gained. This knowledge can be used to guide future policy decisions on how to minimize the deleterious health consequences associated with deployment and combat, as well as furnishing a basis for future studies that examine the link between stress and health outcomes. A structural equation model is developed to test a number of hypotheses concerning the relationship between stress and eventual psychological health and physical health outcomes among Gulf War veterans. A core model is ﬁrst created to test whether or not physical health is a function of psychological health without stress in the equation. This model then expands to test whether or not physical health is a function of psychological health in light of differences in stressful exposures/experiences encountered by Gulf War veterans. The model ﬁnally further expands to test whether or not physical health is a function of psychological health and stressful wartime experiences/exposures adjusting for differences in veterans’ age, gender, race, and marital status. The models theoretical foundation centers on the “Stimulus-based Model of Stress,” developed by Drs. Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe in the late 1960’s. Holmes and Rahe viewed stressful life events as additive in nature and that the more stress an individual experienced in a period of time, the more likely they were to suffer from a variety of physical and psychological illnesses. They developed a stress scale to measure the stressful life experience so as to predict health outcomes. This study likewise quantiﬁed stressful wartime exposures/experiences by creating a stress scale that could measure the stress level of individual veterans. This stress scale was then used to create stress scores of veterans based upon their wartime experiences/exposures. These stress scores were then incorporated into the above structural equation model to determine the effect of wartime stress on veterans’ physical and psychological health outcomes. The dissertation has drawn upon prior research regarding stress and health outcomes in the creation of its stress model. Goodness-of-Fit tests were performed to determine whether the pattern of variances and covariances in the data is consistent with the structural (path) model speciﬁed. The model was respeciﬁed to obtain a better ﬁt by adding correlated error terms based upon the modiﬁcation indices and theoretical considerations.

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Osman, Mohamed Awad. "The United Nations and peace enforcement with special reference to Kuwait, 1990-91." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1999. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2618/.

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This thesis investigates the role of the United Nations in the area of peace enforcement. It studies the UN system for the maintenance of international peace and security in the face of threats to the peace, breaches of the peace and acts of aggression. It assesses the Security Council attempts to employ enforcement measures under Chapter VII of the UN Charter in response to inter-state and intra-state conflicts, paying attention to the effect of the Council's increasing involvement in internal situations, both on the development of the system and on the outcome of conflicts. It also takes account of changes in the nature of modern conflict and of the Security Council's innovative rebuttals; these amount to a transforming of peace enforcement and necessitate its reconceptualisation. The thesis examines challenges posed to the viability of peace enforcement by an increasing tendency to employ 'interventionist' methods such as 'humanitarian intervention' and the 'new internationalism'. In this respect, the thesis examines the assumption that these new methods do not substitute for the UN system of peace enforcement, which retain the universal approval of member states. It further assesses the argument that a reformed peace enforcement system will serve the cause of peace better than these controversial methods. The study of the Kuwait crisis as a central case in this thesis benefited from the release of authoritative accounts during the years 1995-99, by writers who had held official responsibilities during the crisis. The thesis also benefited from the study of peace enforcement cases that occurred after Kuwait in measuring claims raised after the Gulf war concerning the reactivation and viability of peace enforcement. These cases allowed the thesis to provide an account of peace enforcement during the first ten post-Cold War years, to contrast them to earlier cases, and to draw lessons for the future of the UN peace enforcement system.

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Cobley, Roderick. "Theory and policy : the impact of international relations theory on the foreign policy of the United States during the Gulf Crisis of 1990." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289705.

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London, Scott. "Gendered Categories in Presidential Rhetoric: Legitimation and the Gulf War." University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/112064.

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Presidential rhetoric in the United States provides a window into the ideological legitimation of the state, including its military activities abroad. An analysis of rhetorical strategies in George Bush's public speech at the time of the Persian Gulf War reveals how gendered categories are employed to justify the war to the American public. Drawing on a dualistic conceptualization of "good" (hegemonic) versus "bad" (subordinate) masculinities, the President's war narrative describes a "noble" American military pitted against a "bestial" enemy. This process of legitimation is inseparable from a broader "moral regulation" of American society in which gendered identities are selectively cultivated and marginalized. Presidential rhetoric helps to reify these identities, which become, in turn, indispensable to the war effort.

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Chung, Moonsik. "Infection /." Link to online version, 2006. https://ritdml.rit.edu/dspace/handle/1850/2291.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2006.
Typescript. Film produced by Damul Films. Director, Moonsik Chung. Cast: Jonathan Flanigan, Ashley St. John-Yantz, Greg Petralis, Jesse Knight. Co-writer, Oreathia C. Smith.

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Huraysi, Mohammed. "Press Freedom in Saudi Arabia War Reporting: A Case Study of the Gulf and Yemen Wars." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1609168/.

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This study examined press freedom in Saudi Arabia coverage in two study periods, which are the Gulf and Yemen wars. Six Saudi newspapers, which represent Saudi regions, have been content analyzed. They are: Al Riyadh, Al Yaum, Al Nadwah, Mecca, Okaz, and Al Jazirah. The major questions are: What are the most salient issues Saudi newspapers dealt with in their editorials during the study period? What are the differences between the two periods of study? And what are the differences between the editorial features of the Gulf and Yemen wars? The normative theory-press freedom theory was conducted for this study. The results support the lack of press freedom during the Gulf War. In contrast, some newspapers have significantly improved their performance during the Yemen War, using a higher level of press freedom.

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Murphy, Daniel E. "Responding to Saddam U.S. policy toward Iraq since the Gulf War /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2000. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA379081.

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Al-Dosari, Naser S. "The second Gulf War of 2003 : its origins, legality and aftermath." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.521144.

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This thesis examines the question of the legality of the Second Gulf War and its aftermath. The objective is to determine whether the US/UK invasion of Iraq without UN mandate was justified under the UN Charter and customary international law. To obtain an accurate picture of the conflict and determine its legality, it analyses the historical background, particularly the main events and underlying causes. The main question discussed is whether the US military action, supported by its allies, was legitimate in terms of customary international law and the UN Charter. In examining this issue, the following questions are considered: Could the US claim the right of self-defence to pre-empt the Iraqi threat? Did Iraq represent an imminent threat to them or any other nation? Did UNSC Resolutions 678, 687 and 1441 give the coalition explicit or implicit authority to use force and was there no need for a further resolution? The study examines the main legal arguments employed to justify the use of force, particularly pre-emptive self-defence and UNSC Resolutions 678, 687 and 1441, to determine whether they are sound enough to have justified military action. The thesis argues that the invasion was illegal and in violation of the UN Charter and customary international law as well as related UNSC resolutions and represented a serious threat to international peace and security. It argues that Iraq did not represent an imminent or potential threat to the US, UK or any other country in the region and therefore they had no warrant to use force in the exercise of the right of self-defence. The political, humanitarian and legal consequences of this war with its ramifications even to the present time are examined. It is hoped that the thesis contributes to the development of the UN and customary international law in the field of maintaining international peace and security.

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Kilshaw, Susie Margaret. "Impotent warriors : the emergence, construction and moulding of Gulf War Syndrome." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1444772/.

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From September 1990 to June 1991, the UK deployed 53,462 military personnel in the Gulf War. After the end of the conflict anecdotal reports of various disorders affecting troops who fought in the Gulf began to surface. This mysterious illness was given the name "Gulf War Syndrome" (GWS). This thesis is an investigation into this recently emergent illness. It sets out to describe and report the way in which the illness has emerged and become characterized by specific motifs. The symbolic wealth of GWS is that it is about much more than itself and this thesis explores the way GWS has become a potent symbol and a way to talk about a plethora of issues, anxieties and concerns. The various metaphors and themes contained in narratives of GWS are explored in order to better understand the condition. At present, the debate about GWS is polarized along two lines: there are those who think it is a unique, organic condition caused by Gulf War toxins and those who argue it is likely a psychological condition that can be seen as part of a larger group of illnesses. Although necessary to contextualize GWS through situating it amongst other emergent illnesses and widespread health beliefs, there is a need to bring back the particular. This thesis seeks to make sense of the cultural circumstances, specific and general, which gave rise to the illness. Narratives of sufferers and those around them are examined to unravel the way the illness is a unique expression and way of making sense of the life-worlds of a particular group of people. The methods and perspective of anthropology, with its focus on nuances and subtleties, are used to provide a new approach to understanding GWS.

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White, Davin T. "The effects of positive and negative framing on seven American newspapers during the Persian Gulf War in 1991 and the Iraq War in 2003." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2004. https://etd.wvu.edu/etd/controller.jsp?moduleName=documentdata&jsp%5FetdId=3771.

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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2004.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 158 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-158).

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Geary, Mark. "Credentialed to embedded : an analysis of broadcast journalists' stories about two Persian Gulf Wars /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p1421137.

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Al-Rajhi, Saleh Abdullah. "The Gulf Cooperation Council states : the manifold threats and the search for security and stability maintenance in the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula." Thesis, University of Reading, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.262806.

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Cyr, Jeffrey B. A. "Smashing the myth, the Gulf War and the transformation of armed conflict." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0013/MQ41689.pdf.

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Cudworth, Anthon J. "Crisis and decision: New Zealand and the Persian Gulf War, 1990/1991." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Political Science, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6666.

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On 2 August 1990 Iraq invaded and occupied the Emirate of Kuwait, setting in motion a chain of events that led to the largest military build up since the Second World War. These events, which have come to be known as the Persian Gulf Crisis and War of 1990/91 provide an important background for the analysis of New Zealand's 'decision' to provide military personnel to the multi-national force being assembled in the Gulf in December 1990. Unlike many of its traditional friends and allies New Zealand had not been invited to join the United States sponsored coalition and military force due to the strained relationship that had existed between New Zealand and the United States since the ANZUS dispute of the mid-1980s. However, membership was not contingent upon an 'invitation' and New Zealand came under pressure from domestic and external sources to join the coalition, which it did so in December 1990. It is argued that this decision was possibly the catalyst for a significant improvement in the New Zealand-United States relationship and lead to a much more active international role for New Zealand in the following decade.

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Thomas, Claire. "Questioning the efficacy of violence to achieve security : the 1991 Gulf War." Thesis, University of Hull, 2007. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:7056.

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International Relations theory tends to assume that the use of violence is both necessary and effective. Supporters of non-violence however propose that violence is not effective to achieve ones aims. This study will question these contrasting perspectives by asking to what degree violence is effective in obtaining security in international politics. The study focuses on International Relations theory, testing its assumption that violence is effective against the case of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, a conflict that is often seen as a clear case for the success of violence. If the security benefits of this war cannot be proven clearly, then it brings the effectiveness of violence to build security into question. The study questions the effectiveness of violence in this case for three main areas: territory, military power and non-military power. It finds that Iraq's use of violence was mostly counter-productive, leading to further losses rather than gains. The use of violence on the Coalition side brought the Coalition some benefits, but these benefits were not as high as one might expect, and they were not long-lasting. This leads to the conclusion that the benefits of the use of violence are not easy to achieve, even for the victor. It is easier for the victor to destroy the power and ability to act of another actor than it is to build the benefits from that destruction afterwards. The final conclusion of the study is that the use violence needs to be treated more critically in International Relations theory, as it cannot be assumed that the successful use of violence will bring security.

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Ismail, Khalida. "The mental health of UK veterans of the Gulf War 1990-91." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.420635.

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Swank, Eric William. "Marching on the storm : the ebbs and flows of Gulf War protests /." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487949508370225.

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Garvey, Kim V. "Learning Online during Active Duty and after Separation| Gulf War Veterans' Experience." Thesis, Barry University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10680599.

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Higher education has a long-standing relationship with veterans. Under the auspices of federal funding such as the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Act and the 1944 GI Bill, scores of veterans and active duty personnel have used their educational benefits to earn a college degree. In the 21st century, the 2009 enhancements to the post-9/11 GI Bill amounted to $53 billion in education benefits for servicemembers and their families. In addition, the military is increasing its education plan for servicemembers to include more frequent and more specialized training since the demands of 21 st century warfare requires agile tactical teams to be able to act independently from large troop mobilizations or command centers. Both higher education and the military are increasingly gravitating toward online learning. Therefore, Gulf War II-era student veterans—individuals who served after 9/11—are more likely than any previous student veteran cohort to have undergone extensive military education by the time they return to civilian life and pursue college degrees. Although Gulf War II-era student veterans pursue educational opportunities as much or more than earlier cohorts, they also struggle with transitioning to civilian life.

The purpose of this exploratory, qualitative study was to explore the intersection of military education, postsecondary education, online learning, and transitioning in one context. The overarching research question was: What are the lived experiences of student veterans who have engaged in online learning in two capacities: (a) during active duty within the military education system, and (b) after separation within higher education? The study employed Knowles, Holton, and Swanson’s adult learning theory and Schlossberg’s transitioning theory. The study used a phenomenological approach to examine the lived experiences of Gulf War II-era student veterans who have engaged in online learning while on active duty and after separation. A purposeful sample of 16 student veterans was used, and open-ended interviews were conducted to answer the research questions. Using the Modified Van Kaam method of data analysis proposed by Moustakas (1994), the interview data yielded 14 emergent themes.

The study revealed that participants had different experiences with online learning during their active duty service than they did as civilian student veterans in public colleges and universities. Participants found that the military education system’s online courses were repetitive, but they had clear objectives and structures. Failing online military courses was nearly unheard of and could lead to direct reprisal or loss of life. As civilians, many found online learning to be overwhelming and alienating. College online courses were of better quality but were easier to fail. Participants also reported that online learning was not a direct part of their transitioning experience, but their prior experience with it had provided them basic technological literacy that was useful. The research findings were reflective of transitioning theory but did not fully support adult learning theory. The findings suggest that a deep-rooted military persona or identity is probably developed by active duty military personnel and that such an identity is likely related to a military-specific learning style that does not align to traditional andragogy within higher education (e.g. group versus individual learning). The findings also posit that a new theory should be developed that centers on military learners, their styles and their unique system of postsecondary education.

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Al, Shamrani Ali. "The Iraqi opposition movement in the post Gulf War era 1990-1996." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2001. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-iraqi-opposition-movement-in-the-post-gulf-war-era-19901996(e6b1dcaa-682b-4a3e-99e9-78acb40d64fc).html.

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Andrews, William F. "Air Power Against An Army Challenge and Response in CENTAF's Duel with the Republican Guard /." Maxwell AFB, Ala. : Air University Research Coordinator Office, 1998. http://www.au.af.mil/au/database/research/ay1995/saas/andrewwf.htm.

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Thesis (M.M.A.S.)--School of Advanced Airpower Studies, 1995.
Subject: The effectiveness of airpower against ground forces in Operation Desert Storm. Cover page date: June 1995. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Vikan, Helene. "The 1991 Gulf Crisis and US Policy Means." University of Oslo, Institute of Political Science, 1999. http://www.ub.uio.no/ubit/hopp/publ/vikan/.

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Lauck-Dunlop, Penny L. Crystal Jill. "Marketing war a case study comparison of wars between the United States and Iraq /." Auburn, Ala, 2008. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2008/SPRING/Political_Science/Dissertation/PENNY_LAUCK_002.pdf.

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Ferguson, Laura Elizabeth. "Kicking the Vietnam syndrome? : collective memory of the Vietnam War in fictional American cinema following the 1991 Gulf War." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2672/.

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This thesis analyses the concept of the “Vietnam Syndrome” and its continuing manifestation in fictional American films produced after the 1991 Gulf War, with reference to depictions of the Vietnam, Gulf and Iraq Wars. Based on contemporary press reports as source material and critical analysis, it identifies the “Vietnam Syndrome” as a flexible and altering national psychological issue characterised initially as a simple aversion to military engagement, but which grew to include collective feelings of shame, guilt and a desire to rewrite history. The thesis argues that the “Syndrome” was not quashed by the victory of the Gulf War in 1991, as had been speculated at the time. Rather, the thesis argues that it was only temporarily displaced and continues to be an ingrained feature of the collective American psyche in current times. The argument is based on theories of collective memory, according to which social attitudes are expressed in cultural products such as films. The relationships between memory and history, and between memory and national identity are explored as two highly relevant branches of collective memory research. The first of these combines the theories of Bodnar (1992), Sturken (1997), Winter and Sivan (1999) and Wertsch (2002), among others, to define memory’s relationship with history and position in the present. The discussion of the relationship between memory and national identity describes the process by which memory is adopted into the national collective, based on the research of Schudson (1992) and Hall (1999). Consideration is given to the alternative theories of Comolli and Narboni (1992 [1969]), Hobsbawm and Ranger (1983) and Miller (2005) that propose a unified representation from a dominant ideology and of The Popular Memory Group (1982) who argue a counter-hegemonic popular memory. The thesis argues that both are insufficient to account for public memory, establishing a multi-sourced collective memory as the basis for its arguments, as described by Hynes (1999) and Wertsch (2002). Successive chapters provide a close analysis of films in relation to the “Vietnam Syndrome”. Each of the films shows the different approaches to the conflicts and ways the “Vietnam Syndrome” manifests itself. Chapter 3 provides a summary of Vietnam War films released prior to the main period focused upon in this thesis, in order to contextualise the post-Gulf War texts. Chapter 4 analyses Heaven and Earth (1993, Dir. Oliver Stone) as a revolutionary depiction of the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese depiction. Chapter 5 discusses The War (1994, Dir. Jon Avnet) as a late revisionist text. The focus of Chapter 6 is Apocalypse Now Redux (2001, Dir. Francis Ford Coppola), a revision of a vision, in which the additional scenes are analysed for their contribution to this later, more reflective version of the 1970s text Apocalypse Now. The last Vietnam film analysed, We Were Soldiers (2002, Dir. Randall Wallace), is the subject of Chapter 7 and is discussed with reference to post-September 11 American society and the dormant period of the “Vietnam Syndrome.” Chapter 8 brings the previous Vietnam War film analysis chapters together to form intermediate conclusions prior to the progression to Gulf War films. Chapter 9 provides a break in the film analysis chapters to consider the press coverage of the Gulf War, compared to that of Vietnam, paving the way for the following discussion of Gulf War films. Press coverage of the Gulf War influences the visual depiction of the Gulf War in both Three Kings (1999, Dir. David O’Russell) in Chapter 10 and Jarhead (2005, Dir. Sam Mendes) in Chapter 11. The reading of Three Kings also analyses the narrative as a metaphor for American concerns over the American-led coalition’s conduct during the conflict, while Chapter 11 argues the use of Vietnam War films as media templates (Kitzinger, 2000) in Jarhead. Finally, Chapter 13 brings the film analysis to a close by discussing the early representations of the Iraq War that have emerged in recent years, including: American Soldiers: A Day in Iraq (2005, Dir. Sidney J. Furie), Home of The Brave (2006, Dir. Irwin Winkler), Stop-Loss (2008, Dir. Kimberley Peirce), Lions For Lambs (2007, Dir. Robert Redford) Redacted (2008, Dir. Brian de Palma) and The Hurt Locker (2008, Dir. Kathryn Bigelow). The main, but not exclusive, features typifying the “Vietnam Syndrome” expressed through the films include: a reluctance to engage in or support foreign military intervention; use of “good war” and “bad war” discourse; signs of a collective national trauma of defeat; expressions of guilt for the consequences of American actions and failings of policy; attempts to restore the national self-image. This thesis concludes that the “Vietnam Syndrome” is still relevant to American society and that it is expressed through films in a variety of ways. It argues that the Vietnam War and the “Vietnam Syndrome” have become frames of reference for the discussion and representation of conflict and that the American collective psyche suffers a mixture of syndromes, some mutually enforcing and some contradictory, that are triggered by a variety of circumstances. The “Vietnam Syndrome” is identified as the most prolific of these and through its construction and circulation in media products, including cinema, this thesis argues it has become an umbrella term for the remnants of angst over Vietnam and new concerns over other conflicts.

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Kinross, Stuart. ""War is an instrument of policy" : the influence of Clausewitz upon American strategic thought and practice from the Vietnam War to the Gulf War." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2001. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU485668.

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This work is a study in strategic thought. Its objective is to demonstrate how the analyses and arguments of Carl von Clausewitz influenced American strategic thinking between the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. In addressing the influence of Clausewitz, one is examining the way in which his thought has been adapted to contemporary conditions. Clausewitz's conception of the state may place him in the realist canon but his writings do not ignore the irrational factors that are at work an international relations and war. By separating the "historical" Clausewitz from the strategically significant Clausewitz of today, the major similarity between the two rests on the basic assumption that war is an instrument of policy serving the state's interests. Unravelling the threads that make up American strategic thought is a high task. The idealistic strain in American strategy does not mean that expediency in the shape of balance-of-power politics is alien to the United States. As the only superpower to have exited throughout the whole post-war period, America's policy choices have been the major factor behind the shifting balance of the international security environment. Military power, even more so than the making and breaking of alliances, has been at its heart. Clausewitz was the first strategic theorist to seriously study the phenomenon of people's war. Ironically, the Vietnamese communists, despite their "Eastern" culture, showed more awareness than did the Americans of Clausewitz's thought. Their armed struggle occurred in tandem with a political struggle. The Americans found it difficult to clarify, for the sake of domestic opinion, the identity of the enemy. Without the commitment of the American people, the American military struggled to successfully execute a prolonged campaign in Vietnam. The Vietnam War is a classic case of the lack of grasp of policy at the strategic level being mirrored at the operational level precisely because the United States was unsure as to exactly the kind of conflict in which it was engaged.

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Al-Shamali, Ali D. H. A. "An empirical investigation of car buying behaviour before and after the Gulf War." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244037.

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Edwards, Jonathan P. "The Iraqi oil "weapon" in the 1991 Gulf War : an international law analysis." Thesis, Washington, DC : George Washington University /, 1992. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA245257.

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Thesis (Master of Laws)--George Washington University, 1992.
"February 16, 1992." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 7, 2009. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

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Oyeka, Denita Monique. "Gulf War Era II Veterans' Cognitive Information Processing and the Civilian Employment Transition." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4882.

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Gulf-War-era-II combat veterans have made professional contributions to the civilian workforce since returning from Iraq and Afghanistan combat operations. Service members in California encounter transition issues related to employment and adjusting their self-identity in the civilian employment culture. These complexities have led to career problems. Using Peterson, Sampson, Reardon, and Lenz's theory of cognitive information processing and Mincer & Becker's theory of human capital, the purpose of this phenomenological study was designed to provide a holistic account of the lived experiences of 11 Gulf War era II veterans who have successfully integrated into civilian employment with a focus on mitigating factors and decision making processes. Purposeful sampling and semistructured interviews were completed with Los Angeles Gulf-War-era-II veterans employed as civilians for more than 1 year. Data collected were analyzed using the Stevick-Colazzi-Keen method. Five themes emerged from the data represented the transitional experiences of the participant veterans': (a) presence of self-validating values, (b) love of country and social responsibility, (c) importance of veteran networking and social support, (d) continued self-improvement, and (e) self-awareness to adapt to decision-making skills required in civilian employment. The findings identified the phenomenon that veterans evolved personally and professionally after securing meaningful civilian jobs and continued to adapt using career problem solving. This study contributes to the positive social change by aggregating resources for employment stability for veterans, increasing dialogue regarding veteran career transitions, and increasing awareness of veteran human capital values in civilian employment.

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Youngson, Patricia Anne. "From brinkmanship to coercive containment - developments in post cold war crisis management." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2000. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU123139.

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This analysis examines and explains the emergent model of crisis management manifest at the end of the first decade of the post-Cold War era. The end of the Cold War heralded fundamental and widespread changes in many ways but it did not, as events continue to demonstrate, confine to history the phenomenon of international crises. Indeed, evidence suggests that the post-Cold War period has witnessed an increase rather than a decrease in the incidence of crises. However, what has changed is what constitutes a crisis, the range of responses available to those who manage them and the criteria by which a successful outcome may be gauged. Changes too are apparent in time-scales and attitudes of decision-makers. These changes are not constants in all crisis situations: moreover, their impact varies. Whilst this transition is evolutionary and incremental, it is nonetheless fundamental and real. The transition from the Cold War model of crisis management to the post-Cold War model has not been smooth or by deliberate design: it has evolved somewhat haphazardly. Using the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis as a template of Cold War crisis management, comparison and contrast is made with the three post-Cold War crises in which the major powers became entangled; the 1990-91 Gulf War, the Bosnian crisis which lasted from 1991 until 1995, and the 1998-99 Kosovo crisis. This analysis examines what has changed, whilst assessing any change in import of what has not. To do this necessitates drawing upon a variety of topics that merited detailed study in their own right. However, this paper does not seek to provide a history of UN operations, nor is it an analysis of pure strategic theory or a treatise on United States foreign policy. The most obvious differences between the two eras are to be found in the changed relationship between the United States and Russia, formerly the USSR, and consequently the significant reduction in the likelihood of global nuclear conflict. With the nuclear threshold so dramatically raised and the starkness of strategic superpower stand-off removed, other features of crises have been afforded commensurately greater prominence. Indeed the removal of restraint conditioned by the certain knowledge of mutual destruction has coincided with an increase in the incidence of crises.

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Willcox, David R. "Propaganda, the British press and contemporary war : a comparative study of the Gulf War 1990-1991 and Kosovo conflict 1999." Thesis, University of Kent, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410598.

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Wiseman, Geoffrey. "On the defensive : a critical examination of concepts of #non-provocative defence', 1980-1992." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360035.

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Wehrey, Frederic. "The politics of sectarianism in the Gulf : Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, 2003-2011." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:74bb0063-9454-43fe-8ae3-ab20f3c96b98.

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This thesis explores Shi’a-Sunni relations in Gulf politics during a period of regional upheaval, starting with the 2003 invasion of Iraq through the Arab revolts of early 2011. It seeks to understand the conditions under which sectarian distinctions become a prominent feature of the Gulf political landscape, focusing on the three Gulf countries that have been affected most by sectarian tensions: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. The study analyzes the contagion effect of the civil war in Iraq, the 2006 war in Lebanon, and the Arab Spring on local sectarian dynamics in the three states. Specifically, it explores the role of domestic institutions—parliaments and other quasi-democratic structures, the media, and clerical establishments—in tempering or exacerbating sectarianism. It finds that the maturity and strength of participatory institutions in each state played a determinant role in the level of sectarianism resulting from dramatic shifts in the regional environment since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. I conclude, therefore, that the real roots of the so-called “rise of the Shi’a” phenomena lie in the domestic political context of each state, rather than in the regional policies of Iran or the contagion effect of events in Iraq or Lebanon. Although the Gulf Shi’a took a degree of inspiration from the actions of their co-religionists in Iraq, Iran and Lebanon, they ultimately strove for greater rights in a non-sectarian, nationalist framework. The rise of sectarianism in the Gulf has been largely the product of excessive alarm by entrenched Sunni elites or the result of calculated attempts by regimes to discredit Shi’a political actors by portraying them as proxies for Iran, Iraq, or the Lebanese Hizballah. What is qualitatively different about the post-2003 period is not the level of mobilization by the Shi’a, but rather the intensity of threat perception by Gulf regimes and Sunni Islamists.

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Beggs, Alvin D. "The Vietnam War Dissent of Ernest Gruening and Wayne Morse, 1964-1968." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1276117107.

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Weitzman, Kim. "The Relevance of Crises: The Tonkin Gulf Incidents." Connect to online version at OhioLINK ETD Connect to online version at Digital.Maag, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1989/4788.

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Vaughn, Stacy Lynn. "A Military Analysis of the Role of the Media in the Persian Gulf War." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292150.

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Thrall, A. Trevor. "War in the media age : the government/press struggle from Vietnam to the Gulf." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11218.

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Dobson, Hugo James. "Japan and United Nations peacekeeping : foreign policy formulation in the post-Cold War world." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1998. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14769/.

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This thesis investigates Japan's contribution to United Nations (UN)-sponsored peacekeeping operations (UNPKO) by locating sources of activism and passivism in Japan's foreign policymaking process. In particular, it examines the influence of factors, such as Japan's traditional post-W.W.II commitment to pacifism, its relationships with the US and its East Asian neighbours, and the role of the UN. The introduction provides a broad overview of the remit of the thesis as well as clarifying its ontological commitments and justifying the topics of focus, Japan and the UN. Chapter One constructs a detailed theoretical approach to this topic by rejecting traditional realist, liberal, and Marxist interpretations of international politics and, instead, highlighting the study of norms in international society. Chapter Two centres on the topic of UN peacekeeping operations and explains how this practice has become a norm of international society. Chapter Three introduces the topic of Japan's foreign policy by examining traditional approaches and interpretations. It also utilises the approach outlined in Chapter One and examines Japan's contribution to PKO from the time of admission to the UN in 1956 through to the eve of the outbreak of the Second Gulf War. Chapter Four looks at Japan's response to the Second Gulf War from the financial contribution through to the legislation adopted to facilitate the despatch of the Self-Defence Forces (SDF). It demonstrates the initial power of traditional norms in shaping policy and how this changed with the rise of the influence of the UN. Chapter Five takes the first despatch of the SDF to Cambodia as its case study and reveals how the traditional norms of domestic-rooted pacifism and the opposition of East Asian nations to Japanese re-militarisation continued to be eroded. Chapter Six looks at the most recent of the SDF's despatches to Mozambique, Rwanda and the Golan Heights and demonstrates the continued influence of the US as well as the consolidated power of the UN, in contrast to the declining influence of pacifism and Japan's East Asian neighbours. Taking this empirical investigation into account, the conclusion reappraises the importance of norms in Japan's foreign policy making process, and highlights the influence of the UN.

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Wallace, Charles J. "Airpower and the emerging U.S. security framework for the Persian Gulf." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Jun%5FWallace.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Defense Decision Making and Planning))--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2005.
Thesis Advisor(s): James A. Russell. Includes bibliographical references (p.79-83). Also available online.

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Law, Daniel B. "Homefires an analysis of the Ohio National Guard family assistance program during the Gulf War 1990-91 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Gammal, Denise Lohrey. "Relations between British Government sources and the media in wartime : an analysis of the Falklands War (1982) and the Gulf War (1991)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323743.

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Salim, Ihmoud Ali Abu. "The U.S. policy towards the Middle East: the case of the 1990-1991 Gulf War." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1998. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/1685.

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This study has unfolded the U.S. policy toward the Middle East in general and the U.S. response to the 1990- 1991 Gulf crisis in particular. It has uncovered the fact that throughout different phases of history the U.S. policy in the Middle East was shaped by its national interests. U.S. interests in the Middle East, as elsewhere, are determined on the basis of strategic considerations and access to resources and markets. At a more specific level, however, U.S. policy objectives in the Middle East over the past several decades, until the 1990-1991 U.S.-led war in the Persian Gulf, were to: contain Soviet expansionism and influence in the region, ensuring a steady flow of the region's oil and petro-dollars to the west and Japan; defend the security of Israel; secure a permanent U.S. military base in the region; and as a result of the collapse of the Cold War order in 1990, establish the U.S. as world leader. The United States has significantly achieved these goals. In fact, by defeating Iraq, the United States has further secured its national interests in the Middle East. The Gulf War was carried out to this end.

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