The Iran-Iraq War, and U.S. Involvement in It
The First U.S. - Iraq War: Desert Shield and Desert Storm (1990-1991)
Iraq Between the Two American Wars
The Second U.S. - Iraq War (2003- )
Mark Allen,
Arabs. Continuum, 2007. 145 pp.
Christiane Bird,
A Thousand Sighs, a Thousand Revolts: Journeys in Kurdistan. New York: Ballantine, 2004. pb
New York: Random House, 2005. 448 pp. Regional, not specifically Iraqi Kurdistan.
Juan Cole,
Sacred Space and Holy War: The Politics, Culure and History of Shi’ite Islam. London:
I.B. Tauris, 2002. viii, 254 pp.
Gwynne Dyer,
After Iraq: Anarchy and Renewal in the Middle East. Thomas Dunne Books, 2008. 272 pp.
Robert Fisk,
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East. New York: Knopf,
2005. xxii, 1111 pp. The 2003 war in Iraq, plus a lot of other recent history. Very critical of the US.
Graham E. Fuller and Rend Rahim Francke,
The Arab Shi’a: The Forgotten Muslims. New York: St. Martin’s, 1999. pb New York: Palgrave,
2001. x, 290 pp.
William Hale,
Turkey, the US and Iraq. Interlink Publishing Group, 2007. 200 pp. Covers the relationships
from the 1920s onward.
Faleh A. Jabar and Hosham Dawod, eds.,
Tribes and Power: Nationalism and Ethnicity in the Middle East. pb Saqi Books, 2003. 360 pp.
Wadie Jwaideh,
The Kurdish National Movement: Its Origins and Development. Shyracuse, NY: Syracuse University
Press, 2006. xx, 419 pp.
Mehdi Khalaji,
The Last Marja: Sistani and the End of Traditional Religious Authority in Shiism. Washington, D.C.:
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2006. vi,
37 pp. Can be downloaded from the
Institute's web page.
David McDowall,
A Modern History of the Kurds, rev. ed. London: I.B. Tauris, 2000. xii, 515 pp.
Kevin McKiernan,
Kurds: A People in Search of Their Homeland. New York: St. Martin’s, 2006. 390 pp. By a
free-lance war correspondent.
David M. Malone,
The International Struggle Over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council 1980-2005. Oxford and New York:
Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv, 398 pp. Malone is a former Canadian ambassador to the UN.
Hugh Miles,
Al Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel that is Challenging the West. New York:
Grove Press, 2005. 438 pp.
Moojan Momen,
An Introduction to Shi'i Islam. New Haven, 1985. This is supposed to be very good.
Morris M. Motale,
The Origins of the Gulf Wars. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001. 224 pp.
Yitzhak Nakash,
Reaching for Power: The Shi’a in the Modern Arab World. Princeton University Press, 2006. xiii,
226 pp. Particular attention to Iraq and Lebanon.
Vali Nasr,
The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future. New York: Norton,
2006. 304 pp. Check library gets.
Denise Natali,
Kurds and the State: Evolving National Identity in Iraq, Turkey, and Iran. Syracuse University
Press, 2005.
Mohammed el-Nawawy and Adel Iskandar,
Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern
Journalism. Boulder: Westview, 2003. xii, 240 pp. Paperback reprint, probably without significant modifications, of Al Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East. Boulder: Westview, 2002. 240 pp.
Robert A. Pape,
Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. New York: Random House, 2005. 335 pp.
Stephen Pelletière, America’s Oil Wars. New York: Praeger, 2004. 208 pp. Pelletière was the
CIA’s senior political analyst on Iraq during the 1980s.
Stephen Pelletière,
Iraq and the International Oil System: Why America Went to War in the Gulf. Greenwood,
2001. 239 pp. pb Maisonneuve Press, 2004. 250 pp. The topic is much broader—a long-term history of U.S.
oil policy—than the title suggests.
Stephen C. Pelletière,
Kurds: An Unstable Element in the Gulf. Boulder: Westview, 1984. 250 pp.
Kenneth M. Pollack,
Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xv, 698 pp.
David Romano,
The Kurdish Nationalist Movement: Opportunity, Mobilization and Identity. Cambridge University
Press, 2006.
James E. Wise, Jr. and Scott Baron,
Women at War: World War II to Iraqi Freedom. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2006. 234 pp.
Bertram Wyatt-Brown,
"Honor, Hatred, and America's Middle East in Historical and Comparative Perspective," Clio's Psyche,
10:3 (2003), pp. 80-84.
Bertram Wyatt-Brown,
"Honor in National Crises: Civil War, Vietnam, and Iraq," Journal of the Historical Society,
December 2006, pp. 431-60.
Mohamed Zayani, ed.,
The Al Jazeera Phenomenon: Critical Perspectives on New Arab Media. Paradigm, 2005. 224 pp.
Mohamed Zayani and Sofiane Sahraoui,
The Culture of Al Jazeera: Inside an Arab Media Giant. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007. 206 pp.
Gerald Astor,
Presidents at War: From Truman to Bush, the Gathering of Military Powers To Our
Commanders in Chief. Wiley, 2006.
Eyal Benvenisti,
The International Law of Occupation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. vi,
241 pp. Paperback with a new preface by the author: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xviii,
241 pp. Traces actual practice from WWI onward, not just law.
Zbigniew Brzezinski,
Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower. Basic Books, 2007. 234 pp. Bush I, Clinton, Bush II. Very critical of Bush II.
Andrew Cockburn,
Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy. New York: Scribner, vii, 247 pp.
Midge Decter,
Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait. New York: ReganBooks/HarperCollins, 2003. xii,
220 pp. Apparently a pretty worshipful biography.
Karen DeYoung,
Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell. New York: Knopf, 2006. 610 pp.
Tyler Drumheller,
On the Brink: An Insider’s Account of How the White House Compromised American
Intelligence. Carroll & Graf, 2006. 304 pp. Drumheller was chief of clandestine operations for
Europe from 2001 until his retirement from the CIA in 2005.
Helen Duffy,
The ‘War on Terror’ and the Framework of International Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2005. li, 488 pp. According to the H-Diplo review by Daniel Margolies (3/8/07), Duffy really does
match the right-wing stereotype of liberals who don’t want a vigorous effort against Al Qaeda; thinks it was
not legitimate to go into Afghanistan after 9/11.
Foreign Policy Bulletin: The Documentary Record of United States Foreign Policy. Quarterly,
Cambridge University Press. Online since 2005 at
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=FPB&bVolume=y
Foreign Relations of the United States. Massive collections of
documents, indexed, supposed to be published by the State Department about
thirty years after the events.
The State Department has been making the complete texts of
recent volumes available through the Internet, at its
1958-1960,
volume XII: Near East region; Iraq; Iran; Arabian Peninsula. 1993. xxix, 846 pp. (Iraq is
pp. 289-530.)
1961-1963,
volume XVII: Near East, 1961-1962. 1994. lix, 790 pp.
1961-1963,
volume XVIII: Near East, 1962-1963. 1995. lxvi, 881 pp.
1961-1963, microfiche supplement, Near East, Africa. Supplement to volumes XVII, XVIII,
XX, and XXI.
1964-1968,
volume XXI: Near East Region; Arabian Peninsula. 2000. xxxi, 919 pp. (Iraq is pp. 333-389.)
1969-1976,
volume E-4: Documents on Iran and Iraq, 1969-1972. 2006. (This volume has been published
only in electronic form, not in hard copy.)
Long War
Occasional Papers, formerly called
Global War on Terrorism
Occasional Papers (Ft. Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press)
Lt. Col. Louis A. DiMarco,
Traditions, Changes, and
Challenges: Military Operations and the Middle Eastern City. Global War on Terrorism Occasional Paper
#1. Ft. Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2004. vi, 71 pp.
#6: James F. Gebhardt,
The Road to Abu Ghraib:
US Army Detainee Doctrine and Experience. 2005. vi, 143 pp.
#7: David P. Cavaleri,
Easier Said than Done:
Making the Transition Between Combat Operations and Stability
Operations. vi, 94 pp. Japan, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Philip Gordon,
Winning the Right War: The Path to Security for America and the World. New York: Times Books,
2007. Argues that the United States should apply a strategy against Islamic radicalism that looks more
like containment than what the Bush administration has been doing.
Suman Gupta,
Theory and Reality of Democracy: A Case Study in Iraq. Continuum International Publishing,
2006. 234 pp. New edition pb Continuum International Publishing, 2007. 244 pp. I get an impression
this is probably not much about Iraq, more about US policy and rhetoric. But I have not actually
seen the book, and I am not sure.
David Halberstam,
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals. New York: Scribners, 2001. 543 pp.
Howard M. Hensel [Air War College], ed.,
The Law of Armed Conflict. Ashgate, 2007. 280 pp.
Dale R. Herspring,
Rumsfeld’s Wars: The Arrogance of Power. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xxiv, 247 pp.
William G. Howell and Jon C. Pevehouse,
While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2007. xxvi, 333 pp. My impression is that this is pretty theoretical;
the table of contents does not show any chapter devoted to a particular incident or episode.
Jack Huberman,
The Bush-Hater’s Handbook: A Guide to the Most Appalling Presidency of the
Past 100 Years. New York: Nation Books, 2003. xiv, 337 pp.
Joint Warfare of the
Armed Forces of the United States. Joint Publication 1. 14 November 2000.
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick,
Making War to Keep Peace. HC, 2007. 384 pp. Published posthumously.
Adrian Lewis,
The American Culture of War: A History of American Military Force from World War II to
Operation Iraqi Freedom. New York: Routledge, 2006. 560 pp.
Douglas Little, “Mission Impossible: The CIA and the Cult of Covert Action in the Middle East.” Diplomatic
History 28:5 (Nov 2004), pp. 663-701.
Marcus Mabry,
Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power. Rodale, 2007. 360 pp.
James Mann,
Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet. New York: Viking, 2004. xix, 426 pp. Rumsfeld, Cheney, Powell, Armitage, Rice, Wolfowitz.
Melani McAlister,
Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
Christopher Meyer,
DC Confidential: The Controversial Memoirs of Britain’s Ambassador to the U.S. at the
Time of 9/11 and the Run-Up to the Iraq War. Phoenix, 2006. 320 pp. The reader reviews on amazon.uk say it is very unrevealing.
Fotios Moustakis and Rudra Chaudhuri,
"The Rumsfeld Doctrine and the Cost of US Unilateralism: Lessons Learned." Defense Studies
7 (September 2007), pp. 358-375.
Stephen C. Pelletière,
Landpower and Dual Containment: Rethinking America’s Policy in the Gulf. Strategic Studies Institute,
U.S. Army War College, 1999. 36 pp.
James Risen,
State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. 288 pp. Risen is the NYT reporter who broke the story about NSA’s warrantless wiretapping in late 2005. His revelation of Operation Merlin, giving defective nuclear designs to Iran, looks irresponsible to me.
David J. Rothkopf,
Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the
Architects of American Power. New York: Public Affairs, 2005. 554 pp.
Erik Saar and Viveca Novak,
Inside the Wire: A Military Intelligence Soldier’s Eyewitness Account of Life at
Guantanamo. New York: Penguin, 2005. 292 pp. Saar, a sergeant who had been trained in Arabic, was at Guantanamo December 2002 to June 2003.
Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr. and Aziz Z. Huq,
Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror. The New Press, 2007. 276 pp.
Ofira Seliktar,
The Politics of Intelligence and American Wars with Iraq. Palgrave, 2008. x, 214 pp. My impression
is that this is very theoretical, and deals more with academics and public intellectuals than with
intelligence agencies.
James R. Silkenat and Mark R. Shulman, eds.,
The Imperial Presidency and the Consequences of 9/11:
Lawyers React to the Global War on Terrorism. 2 vols. Westport: Praeger, 2007. 520 pp.
Philip Smith,
Why War? The Cultural Logic of Iraq, the Gulf War, and Suez. University of Chicago Press, 2005. x, 254 pp.
Lewis D. Solomon,
Paul D. Wolfowitz: Visionary Intellectual, Policymaker, and Strategist. Westport: Praeger, 2007. 216 pp.
Ron Suskind,
The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11. New York:
Simon & Schuster, 2006. xi, 367 pp. A lot of focus on Cheney.
John B. Taylor,
Global Financial Warriors: The Untold Story of International Finance in the Post-9/11 World. New York:
Norton, 2007. xxv, 324 pp. Taylor was Under Secretary for International Affairs at the
Treasury Department. Covers crackdown on Al Qaeda finance, and financial reconstruction in
Afghanistan and Iraq. Said to be laden with factual details. (Convincing defense of shipping billions in cash
to Baghdad in author’s Op-ed, NYT, 2/27/07.)
George Tenet, with Bill Harlow,
At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA. New York: HarperCollins, 2007. xxii, 549 pp.
Harlan Ullman and James Wade, Jr.,
with L.A. Edney, Frederick Franks, Jr., Charles Horner, Jonathan Howe, and Keith Bradley,
Shock &
Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance. Washington, D.C.: National Defense
University Press, 1996. xxi, 199 pp.
Steven Wright,
The United States and Persian Gulf Security: The Foundations of the War on Terror. Portland, Oregon:
Ithaca Press, 2007. 248 pp.
William D. Wunderle,
Through the Lens of Cultural Awareness: A Primer for US Armed Forces Deploying to Arab and
Middle Eastern Countries. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2006. xi, 136 pp.
There are many topics for which the published transcripts of congressional committee
hearings can be useful sources. The published transcripts are often accompanied by
considerable amounts of documentation, or the documents may even be published without
the excuse of a hearing. Transcripts of important committee hearings, if
not classified, are usually published by the Government Printing Office
(GPO), in Washington. In the Clemson University Library, these are located on Level 3
(one floor down from where you come in), and usually have call numbers
starting with Y 4.
The GPO issues monthly and annual subject indexes to its publications, and you can also do a search
of recent ones on the GPO web site.. But
for the years from 1970 onward, the index published by the Congressional Information Service (CIS)
is better. For each year since 1970 CIS has published two volumes. One,
titled Abstracts, has all the hearings published that year, arranged by
committee. The other, Index, is the subject index. Look up whatever you are after, such as
"Laos" or "Colby, William" in the Index, and you will see a list of
items. If one looks as if it might be interesting, look it up in the Abstracts to get
a more detailed description, and the call number that will let you find it on the
shelf (at least in most cases) two floors up on Level 3. Bear in mind that a hearing held in one year may be
published in a later year. (In the Clemson University Library, the CIS
volumes have recently been moved down to Room 104, with a sign "Abstracts" by the door, in the back on
the lowest floor of the library. The last time I checked, these volumes were in the middle aisle, right
side, but I presume the room will soon be reorganized; when that happens, look for them under call number
KF 49 .C62. They may be moved again when the current renovation program is completed.)
Thabit A.J. Abdullah,
A Short History of Iraq: From 636 to the Present. London & New York: Pearson, 2003. xxii, 234 pp.
Said Aburish,
Saddam Hussein: The Politics of Revenge. New York: Bloomsbury, 2000; pb Trafalgar Square, 2001.
Jafar Pasha Al-Askari,
A Soldier's Story: From Ottoman Rule to Independent Iraq: The Memoirs of Jafar Pasha Al-Askari. Arabian
Publishing, 2003. 294 pp. Jafar Pasha Al-Askari was an Arab who rose to general in the Ottoman
Army before joining the Arab revolt in 1917. He served twice as prime minister of Iraq in the 1920s, under the
British mandate, and was minister of defense when he was killed in the coup of 1936.
Henry D. Astarjian,
The Struggle for Kirkuk: The Rise of Hussein, Oil, and the Death of Tolerance in Iraq. Westport, CT:
Praeger, 2007. xvi, 179 pp. The Iraqi Communist Party and the struggle for control of the oil fields
in the Kirkuk area, 1940s and 1950s. By a participant.
Amatzia Baram,
Culture, History, and Ideology in the Formation of Ba'thist Iraq, 1968-89. New York:
St. Martin's, 1991. xviii, 196 pp.
Hanna Batatu,
The old social classes and the revolutionary movements of Iraq: A study of Iraq’s old landed and
commercial classes and of its Communists, Ba'thists, and Free Officers. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1978. xxiv, 1283 pp. London: Saqi Books, 2004. xxiv,
1283 pp.
Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was an upper-class Englishwoman who was hired by the British government during
World War I because she knew Arabic and had extensive knowledge of the Arabs. She played a significant role
during the following years, when the British were creating Iraq.
The Gertrude Bell Project at the University of Newcastle
has placed online a large quantity of Gertrude Bell's papers, including diaries, letters, and photos.
Janet Wallach,
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of
Lawrence of Arabia. New York: Doubleday, 1996. xxv, 419 pp.
H.V.F. Wimstone,
Gertrude Bell: The Lady of Iraq. Stacey International. 504 pp.
Ofra Bengio,
Saddam’s Word: Political Discourse in Iraq. New York: Oxford U.P., 1998. pb 2002. 288 pp.
Lord Birdwood (Christopher Bromhead Birdwood, Baron),
Nuri as-Said: A Study in Arab Leadership. London: Cassell, 1959. xi, 306 pp. Nuri as-Said (Nuri al-Sa'id)
was an important figure in Iraq from the 1920s up to his death in the military coup of July 1958.
C.H. Bleaney and G.J. Roper,
Iraq: A Bibliographical Guide. Brill, 2004. 522 pp.
CARDRI (Committee Against Repression and for Democratic Rights in Iraq) (Fran Hazelton, U. Zaher, et al.),
Saddam’s Iraq: Revolution or Reaction?, 2d ed. London: Zed Books, 1989. xix, 266 pp.
Nathan J. Citino,
"Middle East Cold Wars: Oil and Arab Nationalism in US-Iraqi Relations, 1958-1961. " In
Kathryn Statler and Andrew Johns, eds., The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization
of the Cold War, 1953-1961 (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).
Con Coughlin,
Saddam: The Secret Life. London: Macmillan, 2002. xxxiv, 350 pp.
Con Coughlin,
Saddam: His Rise and Fall. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 448 pp.
Uriel Dann,
Iraq under Qassem: A Political History, 1958-1963. New York: Praeger, 1969. xvi, 405 pp.
Eric Davis,
Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq. Berkeley:
U. of California Press, 2004 or 2005. 397 pp.
Toby Dodge,
Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied. Columbia University Press, 2003. xix, 260 pp. Seems to focus on the 1920s and maybe 1930s, though I am not certain.
Matthew Elliot,
'Independent Iraq': The Monarchy and British Influence, 1941-58. London and Now York: Tauris,
1996. 248 pp.
Elizabeth Warnock Fernia,
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village. Anchor, 1995. 368 pp. Fernia spent two years,
in the 1950s, in a village in southern Iraq.
Peter W. Galbraith,
The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End. New York: Simon & Schuster,
2006. 260 pp. Main focus is on the Kurds. Galbraith (son of John K. Galbraith) first encountered them as a
SFRC staffer; assisted them in 1991; has recently been advising them.
Gerald de Gaury,
Three Kings in Baghdad: The Tragedy of Iraq’s Monarchy. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007. 232 pp. The
Iraqi monarchy from 1921 to 1958.
Edmund A. Ghareeb, with Beth K. Dougherty,
Historical Dictionary of Iraq. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2004. lxxvi, 459 pp.
Michael Goldfarb, Ahmad’s War,
Ahmad’s Peace: Surviving under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq. New York: Carroll & Graf,
2005. 354 pp. Goldfarb, a British journalist, profiles a Kurd who served as his guide in 2003,
who had been a soldier in the Iraqi Army in the 1980s, and was murdered post-2003 for being too secular.
Naji Al-Hadithi, ed.,
Iraq 1990: An Official Handbook. Baghdad: Ministry of Information and Culture/Dar al-Ma’mun, 1989. 293 pp.
Aylmer Haldane,
The Insurrection in Mesopotamia, 1920. Lt. Gen. Haldane was in charge of putting down the insurrection.
A.M. Hamilton,
Road Through Kurdistan: Travels in Northern Iraq. Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2004. 360 pp. Hamilton
arrived in Iraq in 1928 for a major road construction project.
The Iraqi Documents: A Glimpse
into the Regime of Saddam Hussein. Hearing, April 16, 2006,
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on International Relations. iii, 39 pp. Serial
No. 109-184.
Tareq Y. Ismael,
The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Iraq. Cambridge University Press, 2008. xi, 338 pp.
Faleh Abdul-Jabar (Faleh Jabar), ed.,
Ayatollahs, Sufis and Ideologues: State, Religion and Social Movements in Iraq. London:
Saqi Books, 2002. 290 pp.
Faleh A. Jabar,
The Shi’ite Movement in Iraq. pb London: Saqi Books, 2004. 389 pp.
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra,
Princesses’ Street: Baghdad Memories. Trans. by Issa J. Boullata. University of Arkansas Press, 2005. 185 pp. Memoir by an important Palestinian writer of his life in pre-Saddam Baghdad.
Majid Khadduri and Edmund Ghareeb,
War in the Gulf 1990-91: The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and its Implications. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1997 (pb 2001). 320 pp.
Sana al-Khayyat,
Honour and Shame: Women in Modern Iraq. Saqi Books, 2001. 232 pp.
Francois-Xavier Lovat,
Kurdistan Democratic Party. London: G.I.D. Editions, (1999?). 128 pp.
David Little and Donald K. Swearer, eds.,
Religion and Nationalism in Iraq: A Comparative Perspective. Cambridge, MA: Center for the Study of
World Religions, Harvard University, 2007. 213 pp.
S. McKnight, “Hopeless Gestures: Iraqi Exile Forces since the 1968 Revolution,” in
Matthew Bennett and Paul Latawski, eds.,
Exile Armies (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004).
Sandra Mackey,
The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein. New York: Norton, 2002. pb New York:
Norton, 2003. 427 pp.
Mohammad Gholi Majd,
Iraq in World War I: From Ottoman Rule to British Conquest. University Press of America, 2006. 454 pp.
Kanan Makiya (original ed. under pseudonym Samir al-Khalil),
Republic of Fear. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Updated ed. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1998. xxxvi, 323 pp.
Kanan Makiya,
Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World. New York: Norton, 1993. 367
pp. Denounces the failure of intellectuals to speak out against Saddam Husain.
Phebe Marr,
The Modern History of Iraq, 2d. ed. Boulder: Westview, 2004. xxii, 392 pp.
Henry E. Mattox,
A Chronology of United States – Iraqi Relations, 1920 – 2006. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.
MidEast Web Bibliography: Iraq.
Yitzhak Nakash,
The Shi’is of Iraq. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. xiv, 312 pp. Re-issued with a new
introduction, 2003. Said to be an important book.
Kevin Noble, and Chris Foote Wood,
Baghdad Trucker: Adventures of a Truck Driver. Northern Writers, 2006. 370 pp. Noble, an Englishman, seems to have been driving trucks in the area Iraq-Syria-Turkey in the 1970s and 1980s.
Lynne O’Donnell, High Tea in Mosul: The true story of two Englishwomen in war-torn Iraq. London:
Cyan Books, 2007. ix, 213 pp. Two women who in England in the 1970s fell in love with Iraqi men
who were there for higher education, married them, and then went with them to Iraq to live. About half the
book deals with the US invasion of 2003, and its aftermath. The author, a journalist, met them in Mosul in
April 2003.
William R. Polk,
Understanding Iraq: The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan’s Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the
British Mandate to the American Occupation. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 240 pp.
Suha Rassam,
Christianity in Iraq: Its Origins and Development to the Present Day. Leominster, Herefordshire, UK:
Gracewing, 2005. xxix, 203 pp.
Paul William Roberts,
The Demonic Comedy: Some Detours in the Baghdad of Saddam Hussein. Canada: Stoddart, 1997. New York:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. ix, 294 pp. Roberts, a British journalist and writer,
managed to get into Iraq in 1990 by attaching himself to the Egyptian delegation going there for an
Arab summit. He returned during the 1991 war, paying smugglers to get him from Jordan into Iraq. He went for a
third time, by invitation of the Iraqi government, in 1995.
Georges Sada with Jim Nelson Black,
Saddam’s Secrets: How an Iraqi General Defied and Survived Saddam Hussein. Brentwood, TN:
Integrity Publishers, 2006. xvi, 315 pp.
Khaled Salih,
State-making, Nation-building and the Military: Iraq 1941-1958. Göteborg University, 1996. 177 pp.
Jean Sasson,
Daughter of Iraq: Mayada: One Woman’s Survival Under Saddam Hussein. New York: Dutton, 2003. pb New York: New American Library (Penguin), 2004. xxi, 321 pp.
Priya Satia,
“The Defense of Inhumanity: Air Control and the British Idea of Arabia.”
American Historical Review, 111:1 (Feb 2006), pp. 16-51.
Reeva Spector Simon,
Iraq Between the Two World Wars: The Militarist Origins of Tyranny. Rev. ed. New York:
Columbia University Press, 2004. 256 pp. Traces patterns of attitude and belief among Iraqi military officers,
with the main focus on the period up to 1941, but to some extent running from the Sharifians within the
Ottoman Empire before 1918, all the way to the regime of Saddam Hussein.
Peter Sluglett,
Britain in Iraq: Contriving King and Country. I.B. Tauris, 2007. 384 pp. A history from 1914
to 1932.
Marion Farouk-Sluglett and Peter Sluglett,
Iraq since 1958: From Revolution to Dictatorship, 3d ed. London: I.B. Tauris, 2001. xxi, 390 pp.
Gareth R.V. Stansfield,
Iraqi Kurdistan: Political Development and Emergent Democracy. London, 2003.
Gareth Stansfield,
Iraq: People, History, Politics. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2007. xv, 262 pp. Slightly more than
half of this history of Iraq deals with events since 1979.
David Styan,
France and Iraq: Oil, Arms and French Policy Making in the Middle East. London:
I.B. Tauris, 2006. 272 pp. The background goes back to the end of World War I, but the main part of the book
deals with Franco-Iraqi relations from De Gaulle onward.
Jo Tatchell,
Nabeel’s Song: A Family Story of Survival in Iraq. Doubleday, 2007. 368 pp. Nabeel Yasin,
a leading Iraq poet, went into exile in 1980 after the Baath declared him an enemy of the state.
Gordon Taylor,
Fever & Thirst: A Missionary Doctor Amid the Christian Tribes of Kurdistan. Academy Chicago Publishers,
2005. 354 pp. The story of Asahel Grant, a doctor who went (with his family) in 1835 to the Kurdish
area of the Ottoman empire, as a missionary to minister to Nestorian (Assyrian) Christians there. I am
not certain whether the areas where he served later became part of Iraq.
Scott Taylor,
Among the ‘Others’: Encounters with the Forgotten Turkmen of Iraq. Ottawa, Canada:
Esprit de Corps Books, 2004. 208 pp.
Joseph Tragert,
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Iraq. Indianapolis, Indiana: Alpha (Pearson Education?),
2003. xviii, 318 pp.
Charles Tripp,
A History of Iraq. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii, 311 pp. Third
edition Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xxiii, 357 pp.
William F. Tucker,
Mahdis and Millenarians: Shi’ite Extremists in Early Muslim Iraq. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
United States Export Policy Toward Iraq Prior to Iraq’s Invasion of Kuwait. This is said to exist as a staff report of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, October 27, 1992, Senate Report 102-996, but I can’t find it in CIS index, and I can’t find any other indication that Senate Reports went nearly as high as 996 during the 102nd Congress. Much more likely it was a hearing, as follows:
Reidar Visser,
Basra, the Failed Gulf State: Separatism and Nationalism in Southern Iraq. Germany:
Lit Verlag, 2006. 256 pp.
Reidar Visser,
British Policy and Inter-Sectarian Relations in Iraq, 1914-1926: A Preliminary Study Based on
Documents of the British Government. Oslo: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, 1997. 99 pp.
Ali Wardi,
Understanding Iraq: Society, Culture, and Personality. Edwin Mellen Press, 2008
(forthcoming). 129 pp. Ali al-Wardi (1913-1995) is supposed to have been a great scholar of
Iraqi history and society.
Haifa Zangana,
City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman’s Account of War and Resistance. New York: Seven Stories Press,
2007. 169 pp. Daughter of a Kurdish father and an Arab mother, she spent some time in Syria in the late 1960s,
providing medical services to Palestinians. She became a member of the Central Leadership (CL) faction of the
Iraqi Communist Party; she was arrested in 1972 and imprisoned for six months. Bitterly hostile to both the
Baath and the US occupation of Iraq.
Ronald E. Bergquist,
The Role of Airpower in the Iran-Iraq War. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Press,
1988. x, 94 pp.
Tom Cooper and Farzad Bishop,
Iran-Iraq War in the Air, 1980-1988. Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 2000. 304 pp.
Anthony H. Cordesman and Abraham R. Wagner,
The Lessons of Modern War, vol. II, The Iran-Iraq War. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press,
1990. xxii, 647 pp.
Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr., with David Chanoff,
Line of Fire: From Washington to the Gulf, the Politics and Battles of the New Military. New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1993. 367 pp. Includes Iran-Iraq War.
Developments in the Persian Gulf, June 1984. Hearing, Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East,
House Committee on Foreign Affairs, June 11, 1984. iii, 71 pp.
Rick Francona,
Ally to Adversary: An Eyewitness Account of Iraq’s Fall from Grace. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press,
1999. xx, 186 pp. Francona was involved in U.S. assistance to Iraq 1987-88, then was personal interpreter to
Norman Scharzkopf during Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
John Glenn and John Warner,
Persian Gulf: Report to the Majority Leader, United States Senate, from Senator John Glenn and
Senator John Warner on their trip to the Persian Gulf May 27-June 4, 1987. v, 36 pp.
Dilip Hiro,
The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict. Routledge (Taylor & Francis), 1990. 323 pp.
Investigation into the downing of an Iranian airliner by the U.S.S. "Vincennes". Hearing,
Senate Committee on Armed Services, September 8, 1988. iii, 56 pp.
Bruce W. Jentleson,
With Friends Like These: Reagan, Bush, and Saddam, 1982-1990. New York: Norton, 1994. 300 pp.
Majid Khadduri,
The Gulf War: The Origins and Implications of the Iraq-Iran Conflict. New York: Oxford University Press,
1988. viii, 236 pp.
Michael E. Palmer,
On Course to Desert Storm: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf. Washington, D.C.:
Naval Historical Center, 1992. Contributions to Naval History, No. 5. xxii, 201 pp. Mainly covers the
period from 1946 to 1988; the first few pages go back to the 19th century.
Mark Phythian,
Arming Iraq: How the U.S. and Britain Secretly Built Saddam’s War Machine. Boston:
Northeastern University Press, 1997. xxvii, 325 pp.
Report on the Staff Investigation into the Iraqi Attack on the USS Stark. House Committee on
Armed Services, 1987. v, 30 pp.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
War in the Gulf. Staff report, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, August 1984. v, 38 pp.
War in the Persian Gulf: the U.S. takes sides. Staff report,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, November 1987. x, 49 pp.
United States Policy Toward Iraq: Human Rights, Weapons Proliferation, and International Law. Hearing,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, June 15, 1990. iii, 93 pp.
Craig L. Symonds,
Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History. New York: Oxford UP, 2005. xvii,
378 pp. Chapter 5, “Operation Praying Mantis: The Persian Gulf, April 18, 1988” (pp. 263-320), is in fact a much broader look at USN involvement in the Iran-Iraq War than the title suggests.
Harold Wise, Inside the Danger Zone: The U.S. Military in the Persian Gulf, 1987-1988. Annapolis:
Naval Institute Press, 2007. xiii, 272 pp.
Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM:
Bibliography. Historical Resources Branch, US Army Center of Military History
James A. Baker, III, with Thomas M. DeFrank,
The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War & Peace, 1989-1992. New York: Putnam, 1995. xvi, 687 pp. Baker was Secretary of State.
General Sir Peter de la Billière,
Storm Command: A Personal Account of the Gulf War. London: HarperCollins, 1992. 348 pp. General
de la Billière commanded the British forces of all services in Desert Storm.
Herbert H. Blumberg,
The Persian Gulf War: Views from the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993. 638 pp.
George Bush and Brent Scowcroft,
A World Transformed. New York: Knopf, 1998. xiv, 590 pp.
Susan Canady et. al.,
TRADOC Support to Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm: A Preliminary Study. Fort Monroe, VA: Office of the Command Historian, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, 1992. xi, 101 pp.
Ramsey Clark et. Al.,
War Crimes: A Report on United States War Crimes Against Iraq. Washington, D.C.: Maisonneuve Press, 1992. xi, 281 pp.
Crisis in the Persian Gulf region: U.S. policy options and implications. Hearings,
Senate Committee on Armed Services, September 11, 13; November 27, 28, 29, 30;
December 3, 1990. iv, 765 pp.
Lawrence Freedman and Efraim Karsh,
The Gulf Conflict, 1990-1991: Diplomacy and War in the New World Order. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1992. 548 pp. Paperback 1995.
Norman Friedman,
Desert Victory: The War for Kuwait. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1991. 440 pp.
"Frontline" Oral Histories. The PBS documentary series "Frontline" has made available a collection of
oral histories of key people involved in this war, compiled during the research for one or more programs. Each
of the links below goes to the first page of a multi-page oral history; just keep
hitting the "more" button at the bottom of each page to move on to the next.
James Baker,
Secretary of State.
Richard Cheney,
Secretary of Defense.
Robert Gates,
Deputy National Security Adviser.
Richard Haass,
National Security Council Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs.
General Colin Powell,
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Brent Scowcroft,
National Security Adviser.
Michael R. Gordon and General Bernard E Trainor,
The Generals’ War: The Inside Story of the Conflict in the Gulf. Boston: Back Bay Books (Little, Brown), 1995. xv, 551 pp.
DS 79.72 .G67 1995
Zachary Karabell,
"Backfire: U.S. Policy Toward Iraq, 1988 - 2 August 1990," Middle East Journal 49 (Winter 1995), 28-47.
Shant Kederian,
1001 Nights in Iraq: The Shocking Story of an American Forced to Fight for Saddam against the Country
He Loves. New York: Atria, 2007. 292 pp. Kederian, an Iraqi-American, made what was supposed to be a
brief visit back to Iraq in 1980, and was unable to leave because of the Iran-Iraq War. He was drafted
into the Iraqi Navy in 1985, and fought in the Basra area. Then in 1990 he was drafted into the Iraqi Army.
Khaled ibn Sultan, with Patrick Seale,
Desert Warrior: A Personal View of the Gulf War by the Joint Forces Commander. New York: HarperCollins, 1995. xx, 492 pp.
DS 79.74 .B56 1995
Michael Knights,
Cradle of Conflict: Iraq and the Birth of the Modern U.S. Military. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2005. xxiii, 462 pp. Both US-Iraq Wars, and detailed coverage of the operations in between.
Jerry M. Long,
Saddam’s War of Words: Politics, Religion, and the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait. Austin: U of Texas Press, 2004. xiii, 272 pp.
Clayton R. Newell,
Historical Dictionary of the Persian Gulf War, 1990-1991. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998. lix, 363 pp. The focus is very American.
Joseph Nye and Roger Smith, eds.,
After the Storm: Lessons from the Gulf War. Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1992. x, 415 pp.
William Pagonis, with Jeffrey Cruikshank,
Moving Mountains: Lessons in Leadership and Logistics from the Gulf War. Harvard Business School
Press, 1992. Quite interesting.
Vicki J. Rast,
Interagency Fratricide: Policy Failures in the Persian Gulf and Bosnia. Air University Press,
2004. 466 pp. Looks pretty abstract. Text online at
http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/aul/aupress/Books/Rast/newrast.pdf.
William Rosenau,
Special Operations Forces and Elusive Enemy Ground Targets. Santa Monica: Rand, 2001. xi, 60 pp. The Scud hunt is pp. 29-44.
Général Maurice Schmitt,
De Diên Biên Phu à Koweït City (From Dien Bien Phu to Kuwait City). Paris: Grasset, 1992. 309 pp. Schmitt, who was the Chief of Staff of the French Army, devotes pp. 165-273 of this memoir to the Gulf crisis of 1990-1991.
Richard Alan Schwartz,
Encyclopedia of the Persian Gulf War. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1998. vii, 216 pp.
Micah L. Sifry and Christopher Cerf, eds., The Gulf War Reader: History, Documents,
Opinions. Three Rivers Press, 1991. 526 pp.
Special Operations.com
Bibliography of the 1991 war.
Martin Stanton,
Road to Baghdad: Behind Enemy Lines: The Adventures of an American Soldier in the Gulf War. New York:
Presidio (Random House), 2003. pb New York: Presidio (Ballantine [Random House]), 2004. 363 pp. Stanton,
a U.S. Army major, adviser to the Saudis, was visiting Kuwait at the time Iraq invaded, and was a
prisoner of the Iraqis for four months. He returned to his job as an adviser to the Abdul Aziz Brigade
January 5, 1991. pp. 302-18 cover Battle of Khafji. pp. 331-346 cover the ground war.
U.S. Policy in the Persian Gulf Bob Woodward,
The Commanders. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. 398 pp.
Martin Yant,
Desert Mirage: The True Story of the Gulf War. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus, 1991. 222 pp. Peter Arnett, including the baby milk factory, pp. 48-51. The question of whether Iraq was ready to continue past Kuwait into Saudia is pp. 90-92.
Steve A. Yetiv,
The Persian Gulf Crisis. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997.
Steve A. Yetiv,
Explaining Foreign Policy: U.S. Decision-Making and the Persian Gulf War. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 288 pp. Mostly the decision to go to war in 1991, but some comparison with the decision to go to war in 2003. Publisher’s blurb gives the impression it has more political science theory than I like.
Lt. Col. William F. Andrews,
Airpower against an Army: Challenge
and Response in CENTAF's Duel with the Republican Guard. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Press,
1998. ix, 132 pp.
Sherman Baldwin,
Ironclaw: A Navy Carrier Pilot’s Gulf War Experience. New York: William Morrow,
1996. xii, 265 pp.
James R. Brungess,
Setting the Context:
Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses and Joint War Fighting in an Uncertain
World. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Press, 1994. xvii, 225 pp. The Vietnam War and
Desert Storm are two of the cases considered.
HOward K. Butler,
Desert Shield and Desert Storm: An Aviation Logistics History, 1990-1991. St. Louis, MO: U.S. Army
Aviation Systems Command, 1991. xv, 778 pp.
Mary E. Chenowith,
The Civil Reserve Air Fleet and Operatin Desert Shield/Desert Storm: Issues for the Future. Santa Monica,
CA: Rand, 1993. xx, 78 pp.
Alan Cockrell,
Tail of the Storm: Flying Missions in the First Gulf War. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press,
2003. 248 pp. By a C-141 pilot.
Eliot A. Cohen et al.,
Gulf War Air Power Survey. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993.
Thomas A. Keaney and Eliot A. Cohen, Summary Report. xx, 276 pp.
Volume I: Planning and Command and Control. Front matter (xi pp.); Part I,
Alexander S. Cochran et al., Planning (xvii, 246 pp.); Part
II, Thomas C. Hone et al., Command and Control (xiv, 410 pp.); Glossary.
Volume II: Operations and Effects and Effectiveness. Front matter (xi pp.); Part 1, Barry D. Watts
et al., Operations (ix, 364 pp.); Part II, Barry D. Watts
et al., Effects and Effectiveness (xi, 414 pp.); Glossary.
Volume III: Logistics and Support.
Volume IV: Weapons, Tactics, and Training and Space Operations. Front matter (xi pp.); Part 1,
John F. Guilmartin, Jr., et al., Weapons, Tactics, and Training (xvi, 468 pp.); Part II, Richard A. Gunkel
et al., Space Operations (vii pp.) [the actual text was classified and could not be printed in this
edition; there is a three-page unclassified summary printed here]; Glossary.
Volume V: A Statistical Compendium and Chronology. Front matter (xi pp.); Part 1, Col. David Tretler
et al., A Statistical Compendium (xxii, 660 pp.); Part II, Col. David Tretler
et al., Chronology of the Gulf War (xi, 243 pp.); Glossary.
Richard G. Davis,
Decisive Force: Strategic Bombing in the Gulf War. Washington: GPO/Air Force History and Museums
Program, 1996. 87 pp.
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Richard G. Davis,
On Target: Organizing and Executing the Strategic Air Campaign Against Iraq. Washington:
Air Force History and Museums Program, 2002. xii, 385 pp.
Michael Donnelly, with Denise Donnelly,
Falcon’s Cry: A Desert Storm Memoir. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. x, 251 pp. Major Donnelly, USAF,
served as a fighter pilot in the war. A few years later, he was diagnosed with ALS, which he believes was
caused by exposure to Iraqi chemical weapons during the war.
"Frontline" Oral Histories. The PBS documentary series "Frontline" has made available a collection of
oral histories of key people involved in this war, compiled during the research for one or more programs. Each
of the links below goes to the first page of a multi-page oral history; just keep
hitting the "more" button at the bottom of each page to move on to the next.
General Buster Glosson,
Commander, CENTCOM Air Offensive Campaign.
General Charles Horner,
Commander, 9th Air Force.
Fred L. Frostic,
Air Campaign Against the Iraqi Army in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations. Santa Monica, CA:
Rand, 1994. xviii, 70 pp.
General Buster Glosson,
War With Iraq: Critical Lessons. Charlotte, NC: GFF (Glosson Family Foundation), 2003. xii, 306 pp.
John Godden, ed.,
Shield and Storm: Personal Recollections of the Air War in the Gulf. London and Washington:
Brassey's, 1994. viii, 145 pp. I believe this is a collection of accounts by British personnel.
R. Cargill Hall, ed.,
Case Studies in Strategic Bombardment. Washington: GPO/Air Force History and Museums Program,
1998. 679 pp.
Peter Hunt,
Angles of Attack: An A-6 Intruder Pilot’s War. New York: Ballantine, 2002. xi, 368 pp. Hunt was a
pilot in VA-145, the Swordsmen, call sign “Rustler,” flying off USS Ranger (CV-61).
Perry D. Jamieson,
Lucrative Targets: The U.S. Air Force in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations. Washington:
Air Force History and Museums Program, 2001. xiii, 247 pp.
Thomas A. Keaney,
“Surveying Gulf War Airpower,”
Joint Force Quarterly #2 (Autumn 1993).
Eric V. Larson and Bogdan Savych,
Misfortunes of War: Press and Public Reactions to Civilian Deaths. Santa Monica, California:
Rand, 2007. xxix, 263 pp. The first case considered is the bombing of the bunker at Al Firdos,
February 13, 1991, on which the evidence is somewhat fudged to make the bombing appear more justified
than it was. Page 43 says the bunker, originally built as a civilian shelter, had been converted into
an Iraqi command-and-control facility. Note 33 adds what purports to be a summary of information from
Human Rights Watch report Needless Deaths in the Gulf War [see below under Sherry]:
"several days before the bombing, local residents of the Ameriyah district of Baghdad had complained to local
officials about their lack of access to what had, during the Iran-Iraq war, been a civilian air defense
shelter. Iraqi officials reportedly relented and opened the upper levels to civilians." In fact, while the
report presented a range of conflicting evidence, its main tenor was:
The bunker had been functioning as a civilian shelter right from the beginning of the
air campaign. It had for a while been limited to civilians from elite families. About two weeks
(not just several days) before the bombing it had been opened to a much wider range of civilians. There
was uncertainty about whether some part of the bunker might have contained comunications equipment. (pp.
130-133)
David R. Mets,
The Air Campaign: John Warden and the Classical Airpower Theorists. Maxwell AFB, Alabama:
Air University Press, 1998. xi, 86
pp. Revised
Edition: Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Press, 1999. xi, 86 pp. Colonel Warden played a crucial
role in planning the innovative 1991 air campaign (see also a couple of works by Colonel Warden, below).
John Andreas Olsen,
John Warden and the Renaissance of American Air Power. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books,
2007. xvi, 349 pp.
Performance of the Patriot Missile System in the Gulf War. Hearing before the Legislation and
National Security Subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Operations,
April 7, 1992. GPO, 1993. iv, 341 pp. I believe there is also a report of the same title from the same
committee, House Report 102-1086.
Diane Putney,
Airpower Advantage: Planning the Gulf War Air Campaign, 1989-1991. Washington: Air Force
History and Museums Program, 2004. xii, 481 pp.
Col. Richard T. Reynolds,
Heart of the Storm:
The Genesis of the Air Campaign against Iraq. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Press, 1995. xxiv,
147 pp. This was intended to be volume 1 of 2, but so far as I am aware, the second was never published.
Virginia N. Sherry, et al.,
Needless Deaths in the Gulf War: Civilian Casualties During the Air Campaign and Violations of the
Laws of War. A Middle East Watch report. New York: Human Rights Watch, 1991. xvi, 402 pp. Includes
discussion of Iraqi, not just American, violations of the laws of war.
William L. Smallwood,
Warthog: Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War. Washington: Brassey’s, 1993. xviii, 241 pp. Based on
interviews
Lt. Col. LeRoy D. Stearns,
The 3d Marine Aircraft Wing in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Washington, D.C.:
History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps / GPO, 1998. ix, 223 pp.
Warren E. Thompson,
Bandits Over Baghdad: Personal Stories of Flying the F-117 Over Iraq. North Branch, MN:
Specialty Press, 2000. vi, 200 pp.
Capt. Michael P. Vriesenga, ed.,
From the Line in the Sand:
Accounts of USAF Company Grade Officers in Support of Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Maxwell AFB:
Air University Press, 1994. xviii, 271 pp.
John A. Warden III,
The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat. Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press,
1988. Shortly after writing this, Warden played a crucial role in formulating the plan for the 1991 air war.
John A. Warden III,
"The Enemy as a System." Airpower Journal, Spring 1995, pp. 40-55.
Kenneth P. Werrell,
The Evolution of the Cruise Missile. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Press,
1997. xiv, 289 pp.
James A. Winnefield, Preston Niblack, and Dana J. Johnson,
A League of Airmen: U.S. Air Power in the Gulf War. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1994. 361 pp.
The Investigation of a Friendly Fire Incident During the Persian Gulf War, S.Hrg. 104-268. Hearing of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, June 29, 1995. v, 202 pp. Deals with the incident of February 27, 1991, when a unit of the 3rd ACR attacked soldiers of an Engineer unit who were waiting beside a road because their truck had broken down.
Minimizing Friendly Fire: The Army Should Consider Long-Term Solution, In Its Procurement
Decision on Near-Term Needs, GAO/NSIAD-94-19, B-253863, U.S. GAO, October 22, 1993.
Operation Desert Storm: Apache Helicopter Fratricide Incident, GAO/OSI-93-4, U.S. GAO, June 30, 1993.
Charles R. Shrader,
"Friendly Fire: The Inevitable Price," Parameters, 22 (Autumn 1992) [Shrader appears to be the Army
expert on amicide; I am presuming this article must be about Desert Storm.]
United States General Accounting Office, National Security and International Affairs Division,
Blackhawk incident legal questions.
United States General Accounting Office, Operation Desert Storm: investigation of a U.S. Army fratricide incident. 109 pp. Deals with the incident of February 27, 1991, when a unit of the 3rd ACR attacked soldiers of an Engineer unit who were waiting beside a road because their truck had broken down.
microfiche GA 1.13:OSI-95-10
John Adams,
Flight of the Shxtbyrdz: Frontline View. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2004. iv, 366 pp. Adams
served in the 1st Marine Division.
Air Assault in the Gulf:
An interview with MG J. H. Binford Peay, III, Commanding General,
101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). Washington, DC: Center of Military History. 59 pp. Oral history
interview conducted in June 1991.
Stephen A. Bourque,
Jayhawk! The VII Corps in the Persian Gulf War. Washington: Department of the Army, 2002. xvi, 514 pp.
Stephen A. Bourque and John W. Burdan,
The Road to Safwan: The 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Denton:
University of North Texas Press, 2007. 312 pp. I believe the 1-4 Cavalry was in the 1st Infantry Division,
VII Corps.
Tom Clancy, with General Fred Franks, Jr. (Ret.),
Into the Storm. New York: Putnam, 1997. pb New York: Berkley, 1998. xii, 562 pp. Franks commanded
VII Corps.
Jeffrey J. Coonjohn,
Operation Desert Storm: A Soldier’s Journal: Stories from the Front: A First Hand Account of the Gulf
War. Fresno, CA: Military Press, 1991. xv, 195 pp.
James J. Cooke,
100 Miles from Baghdad: With the French in Desert Storm. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993. xi, 223 pp.
Sean T. Coughlin,
Storming the Desert: A Marine Lieutenant’s Day-by-Day Chronicle of the Persian Gulf War. Jefferson, NC:
McFarland, 1996. viii, 168 pp.
Barbara J. Evans,
For the Love of My Country: Desert Storm. Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2002. 165 pp.
Field Artillery. Fort Sill, Oklahoma; U.S. Army Field Artillery School. This journal has been
published under this name since mid 1987. (It had appeared under various other titles
intermittently since 1911.) All
issues are available online through the
Field Artillery archives page, which is
nicely set up; you can choose to access either an entire issue in a very large .pdf file, or an
individual article. Also it has a pretty decent search engine. A small sample:
Colonel David A. Rolston,
"Victory Artillery in
Operation Desert Shield." April 1991, pp. 23-27.
"Deception, Firepower
and Movement: 1st Cav in Desert Storm." June 1991, pp. 31-34. Interview with Brig. Gen. Tommy R. Franks,
former Assistant Division Commander for Maneuver, 1st Cavalry Division.
Lt. Col. Stephen J. Arntz,
"'Roadrunner' Operations
in Desert Storm." June 1991, pp. 35-39. The 5-18 Field Artillery ("Roadrunners") crossed the Iraqi
border with the 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized), but then in joined the 1st Armored Division.
Major Mark S. Jensen,
"MLRS in Operation
Desert Storm." August 1991, pp. 30-34. The 1-27 Field Artillery.
Douglas Foster,
Braving the Fear: The True Story of Rowdy US Marines in the Gulf War. PublishAmerica, 2006. 271 pp.
Joe Freitus, as told by Chris Freitus,
Dial 911 Marines: Adventures of a Tank Company in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. McCarran, Nevada:
New American Publishing, 2002. 320 pp.
"Frontline" Oral Histories. The PBS documentary series "Frontline" has made available a collection of
oral histories of key people involved in this war, compiled during the research for one or more programs. Each
of the links below goes to the first page of a multi-page oral history; just keep
hitting the "more" button at the bottom of each page to move on to the next.
General Sir Peter de la
Billiere, Commander, British forces.
General Walt Boomer,
Commander of Marine forces.
General Frederick Franks,
Commander of VII Corps.
General Norman Schwarzkopf,
Commander, CENTCOM.
General Calvin Waller,
Deputy Commander, CENTCOM.
James F. Gebhardt,
Eyes Behind the Lines:
US Army Long-Range Reconnaissance and Surveillance Units, rev. ed. Global War on Terrorism Occasional Paper
#10. Ft. Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2005. vi, 177 pp. The Vietnam War is pp.
45-110. Desert Shield/Desert Storm is pp. 126-134. This historical study does not overtly discuss the 2003
US-Iraq War, but it was written with an eye to illuminating disputes over the use of reconnaissance units in
that war.
Andrew Gillespie,
Desert Fire: The Diary of a Gulf War Gunner. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England:
Leo Cooper (Pen & Sword), 2001. xxiv, 248 pp. Gillespie commanded O Battery (called the Rocket Troop,
though it was equipped with M109 A2/3 155mm self-propelled howitzers), 2nd Field Regiment Royal Artillery,
4th Armoured Brigade, British First Armoured Division.
Infantry. Fort Benning, Georgia: U.S. Army Infantry School. Tables
of contents for issues since 1982, with actual links to the texts of articles
in issues since 1988, were once available to the public on the
Infantry web site. But
now this material is open only to users having a userid and password in the Army's system. There were
surprisingly few articles published relating to the 1991 war.
Major John F. Antal,
"Iraq's Mailed Fist" January-February
1991, pp. 27-30.
Michael R. Jacobson,
"Iraqi Infantry" January-February
1991, pp. 33- .
Frederick Kagan,
Leaders in War: West Point Remembers the 1991 Gulf War. Taylor & Francis, 2006.
Otto J. Lehrack,
America's Battalion : Marines in the First Gulf War. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press,
2005. xiii, 236 pp.
G.J. Michaels,
Tip of the Spear: U.S. Marine Light Armor in the Gulf War. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press,
1998. xii, 253 pp.
Molly Moore,
A Woman at War: Storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines. New York: Scribner’s, 1993. xv, 336 pp.
David J. Morris,
Storm on the Horizon: Khafji: The Battle that Changed the Course of the Gulf War. New York: Free Press,
2004. xviii, 317 pp. David S. Pierson,
Tuskers: An Armor Battalion in the Gulf War. Darlington, Maryland: Darlington Productions,
1997. 231 pp. 4/64 Armor.
Brigadier General Robert H. Scales, Jr. [et. al.],
Certain Victory: The US Army in the
Gulf War. xiii, 435 pp. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Staff, United States
Army / GPO, 1993. Reprinted Ft. Leavenworth, KS: Command and General Staff College Press, 1994.
Frank N. Schubert and Theresa L. Kraus, eds.,
The Whirlwind War: The United States Army in
Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Washington, D.C.:
Center of Military History, 1995. xvi, 312 pp.
Richard M. Swain,
“Lucky War”: Third Army in Desert Storm. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: U.S. Army Command and General Staff
College Press.
Anthony Swofford,
Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles. New York: Scribner, 2003. 272 pp. A
Marine sniper.
Joel Turnipseed,
Baghdad Express: A Gulf War Memoir. Penguin, 2003. 208 pp. Turnipseed was a Marine reservist
mobilized for the war.
24th Mechanized Infantry Division. This division was part of the XVIII Airborne Corps.
Major Jason K. Kamiya,
A History of the 24th Mechanized Infantry Division Combat Team during Operation Desert Storm:
"The Attack to Free Kuwait" (January through March 1991). Fort Stewart, Georgia, 1991. iii, 62 pp.
24th Mechanized Infantry Division Combat Team, Operation Desert Storm , Attack Plan OPLAN 91-3.
Fort Stewart, Georgia, 1992.
24th Mechanized Infantry Division Combat Team Historical Reference Book:
A collection of historical letters, briefings, orders, and other miscellaneous documents pertaining to the
defense of Saudi Arabia and the attack to free Kuwait. Fort Stewart, Georgia, 1992.
United States Army Reserve in Operation Desert Storm: Ground Transportation Operations. Washington,
D.C.: U.S. Army Reserve, 1994. v, 85 pp.
U.S. Marines in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991. The Marine Corps’ official history of the campaign
(see also Stearns, above, the air war volume in this series).
Charles D. Melson, Evelyn A. Englander, and David A. Dawson, eds.,
U.S. Marines in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991: Anthology and Annotated Bibliography. Washington, D.C.:
History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps / GPO, 1992. ix, 258 pp.
Ronald J. Brown,
With Marine Forces Afloat in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps / GPO, 1998. x, 253 pp.
Lt. Col. Charles H. Cureton,
With the 1st Marine Division in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps / GPO, 1993. vii, 154 pp.
Lt. Col. Dennis P. Mroczkowski,
With the 2d Marine Division in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps / GPO, 1993. ix, 107 pp.
Charles J. Quilter,
With the I Marine Expeditionary Force in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps / GPO, 1993. viii, 131 pp.
Major John T. Quinn II,
Marine
Communications in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division,
Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps / GPO, 1996. xi, 124 pp.
Steven M. Zimmeck,
Combat
Service Support in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division,
Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps / GPO, 1999. x, 246 pp.
Alex Vernon, with Neal Creighton, Jr., Greg Downey, Rob Holmes, and Dave Trybula,
The Eyes of Orion: Five Tank Lieutenants in the Persian Gulf War. Kent, Ohio:
Kent State University Press, 1999. xxiv, 330 pp. The authors were in the 1-64 Armor,
24th Infantry Division (Mechanized), XVIII Airborne Corps.
Buzz Williams,
Spare Parts: A Marine Reservist’s Journey from Campus to Combat in 38 Days. New York: Gotham Books
(Penguin), 2004. xx, 303 pp.
Michael Asher,
The Real Bravo Two Zero: The Truth Behind Bravo Two Zero. Weidenfeld Military, 2002. 240 pp. pb Cassell Military, 2003. An
eight-man SAS patrol sent into Iraq 22 January 1991. Three were killed, four were captured, one
escaped. Asher, a former member of the SAS but not a participant in the patrol, says that two best-selling
books by men who were participants, NcNab and Ryan (see below), were seriously fictionalized.
Mike Coburn,
Soldier Five: The Real Truth about the Bravo Two Zero Mission. pb Mainstream Publishing, 2004. 320
pp. He was a participant.
Andy McNab,
Bravo Two Zero. Pb Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1994. 412 pp. McNab (pseudonym?) was the team leader of
the Bravo Two Zero mission.
Chris Ryan,
The One that Got Away: My SAS Mission Behind Enemy Lines. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books,
2006. 241 pp. Previously published in paperback by Arrow Books, 2001. 418 pp. Ryan (pseudonym?) was a
corporal in the famous SAS "Bravo Two Zero" mission into Iraq.
Christopher Bellamy,
Expert Witness: A Defense Correspondent’s Gulf War, 1990-1991. London and New York: Brassey’s,
1993. xxxi, 252 pp.
W. Lance Bennett and David L. Paletz, eds.,
Taken by Storm: The Media, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Gulf War. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1994. xvi, 308 pp.
Robert E. Denton, Jr., ed.,
The Media and the Persian Gulf War. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1993. xviii, 302 pp.
John J. Fialka,
Hotel Warriors: Covering the Gulf War. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. xv, 78 pp.
Susan Jeffords and Lauren Rabinovitz, eds.,
Seeing Through the Media: The Persian Gulf TV War. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,
1994. xii, 343 pp. Looks a bit left wing, maybe.
Douglas Kellner,
The Persian Gulf TV War. Boulder: Westview, 1992. xii, 460 pp.
John R. MacArthur, Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War. New York: Hill and Wang
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 1992. viii, 260 pp. 2d ed. with a new preface Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2004.
David E. Morrison,
Television and the Gulf War. London: J. Libbey, 1992. viii, 100 pp.
Claude Salhani,
Black September to Desert Storm: A Journalist in the Middle East. Columbia: University of
Missouri Press, 1998. ix, 262 pp. Salhani began working as a photojournalist in 1970 in Beirut. Desert
Storm is the last chapter.
Major General Winant Sidle, Ret.,
"A
Battle Behind the Scenes: The Gulf War Reheats Military-Media Controversy." Military Review,
September 1991, pp. 52-.
Perry M. Smith,
How CNN Fought the War: A View from the Inside. New York: Carol, 1991. xvi, 223 pp.
Pete Williams, “A Gulf War Military-Media Review,” Defense Issues, March 14, 1991.
Phil Brown,
Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement. New York:
Columbia University Press, 2007. xxxiv, 356 pp. Considers breast cancer, asthma, and Gulf War-related
illnesses.
Michael Donnelly, with Denise Donnelly,
Falcon’s Cry: A Desert Storm Memoir. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. x, 251 pp. Major Donnelly
served as a fighter pilot in the war. A few years later, he was diagnosed with ALS, which he believes was
caused by exposure to Iraqi chemical weapons during the war.
Ronald D. Fricker, Jr., et. al.,
Pesticide Use During the Gulf War: A Survey of Gulf War
Veterans. Santa Monica: Rand, 2000. 170 pp.
Gulf
War Illnesses. Special hearing,
Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, Senate
Appropriations Committee, October 12, 2000. iii, 73 pp.
House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight / House Committee on Government Reform [see also under
GAO below]
The
Status of Efforts to Identify Persian Gulf War Syndrome. Hearing, Subcommittee on Human Resources and
Intergovernmental Relations, House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, March 11, 28, June 25,
September 19, 1996. v, 540 pp.
Gulf
War Syndrome: To Examine New Studies Suggesting Links between Gulf Service and Higher Rates of
Illnesses. Hearing, House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, January 21, 1997. iii, 332 pp.
Status
of the Department of Veterans Affairs to Identify Gulf War Syndrome. Hearing, Subcommittee on Human Resources,
House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, April 24, 1997. iii, 361 pp.
The
Status of Efforts to Identify Persian Gulf War Syndrome: Recent GAO Findings. Hearing, Subcommittee on Human Resources,
House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, June 24, 1997. iii, 97 pp.
Status
of Efforts to Identify Gulf War Syndrome: Multiple Toxic Exposures. Hearing, Subcommittee on Human Resources,
House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, June 26, 1997. iii, 424 pp.
Gulf
War Veterans' Illnesses: Health of Coalition Forces. Hearing, Subcommittee on National
Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations, House Committee on Government Reform, January 24,
2002. iii, 202 pp. Serial No. 107-137.
Examining
VA Implementation of the Persian Gulf War Veterans Act of 1998. Hearing, Subcommittee on National
Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations, House Committee on Government Reform, November 15,
2005. iii, 318 pp. Serial No. 109-114.
House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Hearing on War-related Illnesses and on the VA's Sexual Trauma Counseling Program Force
Health Protection: Lessons Learned and Applied from the First Gulf War. Hearing, Subcommittee
on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, July 9, 2003. iii, 97 pp.
Hearing on Gulf War Exposures. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Health,
July 26, 2007.
Witness List with
links to the statements of the witnesses.
David H. Marlowe,
Psychological and Psychosocial Consequences of Combat and Deployment with Special Emphasis on the Gulf
War. Santa Monica: Rand, 2000. 256 pp.
Gary Matsumoto,
Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment that's Killing Our Soldiers and Why GI's are Only the
First Victims. New York: Basic Books, 2004. xx, 362 pp.
Persian Gulf Veterans Act of 1998. Report, Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, October 2, 1998. 37 pp.
Richard A. Rettig, Military Use of Drugs Not Yet Approved by FDA for CW/BW Defense. Santa Monica:
Rand, 1999. 122 pp. Available online if you are browsing
through an institution that has paid for a subscription to NetLibrary.
[Distributed by Bernard Rostker, Special Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses, Department of Defense],
Iraq’s Scud Ballistic Missiles. Unpaginated, about 90
pp. The text has been
placed online in the
Virtual Vietnam Archive
of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.
A Review of the Scientific Literature As It Pertains to Gulf War Illnesses. Santa Monica, CA:
Rand, 1998-2003. Available online if you are browsing
through an institution that has paid for a subscription to NetLibrary.
Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Reproductive Hazards and Military Service: What Are the Risks of Radiation, Agent Orange, and Gulf War
Exposures? Hearing before the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, United States Senate, August 5,
1995. iv, 513 pp.
Intelligence assessments of the exposure of U.S. military personnel to chemical agents during
Operation Desert Storm. Joint hearing, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Senate Committee
on Veterans' Affairs, September 25, 1996. iii, 133 pp.
U.S. Dual-Use Exports to Iraq and their Impact on the Health of the Persian Gulf War Veterans,
Hearing of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, May 25, 1994. iii, 551 pp.
Y 4.B 22/3:S.HRG.103-900
United States General Accounting Office (GAO)
Keith Rhodes,
Gulf War
Illnesses: Prelimary Assessment of DOD Plume Modeling for U.S. Troops' Exposure to Chemical Agents. Testimony
before the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations,
House Committee on Government Reform], June 2, 2003. 37 pp.
Department of
Veterans Affairs: Federal Gulf War Illnesses Research Strategy Needs Reassessment. Report to the
Chairman, Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations,
House Committee on Government Reform, June 2004. 36 pp.
Gulf War
Illnesses: DOD's Conclusions about U.S. Troops' Exposure Cannot be Adequately Supported. Report to
Congressional Requesters [Robert Byrd of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Christopher Shays,
Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations,
House Committee on Government Reform], June 2004. iv, 109 pp.
Keith Rhodes,
Gulf War
Illnesses: DOD's Conclusions about U.S. Troops' Exposure Cannot be Adequately Supported. Testimony
before the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations,
House Committee on Government Reform], June 1, 2004. 27 pp.
Jeff Wheelwright,
The Irritable Heart: The Medical Mystery of the Gulf War. New York: Norton, 2001. 427 pp.
Bibliography:
"United States Naval Forces in Desert Shield and Desert Storm: A Select Bibliography". This
bibliography is much broader than the title suggests; most of the
books listed are not specifically naval in their focus.
Chris Craig,
Call for Fire: Sea Combat in the Falklands and the Gulf War. London: John Murray, 1995. Written by the
Royal Navy's Senior Naval Officer Middle East during the Gulf War.
Edward Marolda,
History: “The United States Navy and The
Persian Gulf"
Edward J. Marolda and Robert J. Schneller Jr.,
Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War. Washington, DC: Naval Historical
Center, 1998. xxi, 517 pp.
Arnold Meisner,
Desert Storm Sea Victory. Stillwater, MN: Motorbooks International, 1991. 128 pp.
Duncan E. Miller and Sharon Hobson,
The Persian Excursion: The Canadian Navy in the Gulf War. Toronto: The Canadian Institute of
Strategic Studies, 1995.
Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm sealift performance and future sealift requirements. Hearings
before the Subcommittee on Merchant Marine of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries,
House of Representatives, April 23 and May 21, 1991. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1992. v, 596 pp.
Persian Gulf Sealift Requirements. Hearings
before the Subcommittee on Merchant Marine of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries,
House of Representatives, September 18 and 26, 1990. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1990. iv, 506 pp.
Robert J. Schneller, Jr.,
Persian Gulf Turkey Shoot: The Destruction of Iraqi Naval Forces during Operation Desert Storm. Washington,
D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1993.
The United States Navy
in "Desert Shield"/"Desert Storm". A preliminary history, compiled by the U.S. Navy in 1991, in the
immediate aftermath of the war.
Abbas Alnasrawi,
Iraq’s Burdens: Oil, Sanctions, and Underdevelopment. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. x, 179 pp.
Anthony Arnove, ed.,
Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War. Cambridge, MA:
South End Press, 2000. 216 pp. Updated ed.: Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2002. 262 pp.
Barbara Nimri Aziz,
Swimming Up the Tigris: Real Life Encounters with Iraq. Gainesville: University Press of Florida,
2007. xviii, 314 pp. Aziz, an anthropologist, arrived in Iraq in 1989. The main emphasis of the book is
on conditions under the US-led embargo after 1991, but there are also comments on events of 2003 and
after. Bitterly critical of US policy.
Peter P. Bartos,
"A Day on Northern Watch: November 2, 2000. Air Power History, Spring 2007, pp. 16-21.
Daniel L. Byman and Matthew C. Waxman,
Confronting Iraq: U.S. Policy and the Use of Force Since the Gulf War. Santa Monica: Rand, 2000. 124 pp.
Patrick Clawson, ed.,
How Has Saddam Hussein Survived? Economic Sanctions, 1990-93. McNair Paper no. 22. Washington, D.C.:
Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, 1993.
Dilip Hiro,
Iraq: A Report from the Inside. Granta, 2003. 271 pp. Critical of U.S. policy.
House Committee on Armed Services
United States Policy Toward Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on Armed Services,
March 10, 1999. iii, 53 pp.
House Committee on Foreign Affairs/House committee on International Relations
U.S. Policy Toward Iraq 3 Years After the Gulf War. Hearing, Subcommittee on Europe and the
Middle East, House Committee on Foreign Affairs,
February 23, 1994. ii, 61 pp.
U.S. Policy Toward Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on International Relations,
March 28, 1996. iii, 92 pp.
U.S. Options in Confronting Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on International Relations,
February 25, 1998. iii, 85 pp. Paul D. Wolfowitz, Richard N. Haass, David A. Kay, and Eliot A. Cohen.
U.S.
Policy Toward Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on International Relations,
March 23, 2000. iii, 63 pp. David Welch and A. Elizabeth Jones of the Department of State, and Alina
Romanowski of the Department of Defense.
House Committee on National Security
United States Policy Toward Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on National Security,
September 26, 1996. iii, 84 pp.
United States Policy Toward Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on National Security,
September 16, 1998. iii, 91 pp.
Yasmin Husein Al-Jawaheri,
Women in Iraq: The Gender Impact of International Sanctions. Lynne Rienner, 2008. 228 pp.
Sam Pender is a very prolific author, probably self-publishing (Virtualbookworm.com),
in this area. Titles include
America’s War with Saddam, 1990-2003 (2004, 392 pp.);
The Ignored War: America’s War with Saddam, 2/2/91 to 3/19/03 (2004, 292 pp.);
Iraq’s Smoking Gun (2004, 356 pp.);
Saddam’s Ties to Al Queda (2005, 684 pp.).
Scott Ritter,
Endgame: Solving the Iraq Crisis. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. pb with afterword dated 2002
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. 256 pp.
Gordon W. Rudd,
Humanitarian Intervention: Assisting the Iraqi Kurds in Operation Provide Comfort, 1991. Washington,
D.C.: Center of Military History, 2004. xvi, 280 pp.
Senate Committee on Armed Services
The Situation in Iraq. Hearing, Senate Committee on Armed Services, September 12,
1996. iii, 47 pp.
U.S. Policy on Iraq. Hearing, Senate Committee on Armed Services, January 28,
1999. iii, 36 pp.
U.S. Policy Toward Iraq. Hearing, Senate Committee on Armed Services, September 19, 28,
2000. iii, 105 pp. Walter B. Slocombe, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Edward S. Walker,
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Tommy R. Franks, Commander, CENTCOM; Anthony C. Zinni,
former Commander, CENTCOM; Richard Butler; Richard N. Perle, American Enterprise Institute.
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Aftermath of war: The Persian Gulf refugee crisis. Staff report, Subcommittee on Immigration
and Refugee Affairs, Senate Committee on the Judiciary,
1991. ix, 37 pp.
National security considerations in asylum applications: A case study of six Iraqis. Hearing,
Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information, Senate Committee on the Judiciary,
October 8, 1998. iii, 102 pp.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Civil War in Iraq Kurdistan in the Time of Saddam Hussein Iraq Claims Legislation U.S. policy toward Iran and Iraq Iraq:
Can Saddam Be Overthrown?. Hearing, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, March 2, 1998. iii, 43 pp. Ahmed Chalabi, Richard N. Haass,
Zalmay Khalilzad, and R. James Woolsey.
Iraq:
Are Sanctions Collapsing?. Joint Hearing, Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and on
Energy and Natural Resources, May 21, 1998. iii, 60 pp. David Kay, Richard N. Perle, Thomas R. Pickering,
and Ken Pollack.
United
States Policy in Iraq: Public Diplomacy and Private Policy. Hearing, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, September 9, 1998. iii, 37 pp. Lawrence S. Eagleburger; Martin Indyk,
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Jeane J. Kirkpatrick; Richard W. Murphy; R. James
woolsey.
United States
Policy Toward Iraq. Hearing, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, March 9, 1999. iii, 15 pp. A. Elizabeth Jones, Principal Assistant
Secretary of State for New Eastern Affairs.
U.S.
Policy Toward Iraq: Mobilizing the Opposition. Hearing, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, June 23, 1999. iii, 37 pp. Ahmad Chalabi, Patrick Clawson, Rend
Rahim Francke, A. Elizabeth Jones.
Facing Saddam's Iraq: disarray in the international community. Hearing, Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, September 28, 1999. iii, 24 pp.
Saddam's
Iraq: sanctions and U.S. policy. Hearing, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, March 22, 2000. iii, 74 pp. Charles Duelfer, Paul Leventhal,
Gary Milhollin, and Edward S. Walker (Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs).
The
liberation of Iraq: a progress report. Hearing, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, June 28, 2000. iii, 19 pp. Ahmad Chalabi and Richard N. Perle.
United States
Policy Toward Iraq. Hearing, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, March 1, 2001. iii, 43 pp. Anthony H. Cordesman, Morton H. Halperin,
Robert J. Kerrey, and Richard N. Perle.
Geoff [Geoffrey Leslie] Simons,
The Scourging of Iraq: Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice, 2d ed. New York: VHPS/St. Martin’s,
1998. 384 pp. Geoff Simons,
Targeting Iraq: Sanctions and Bombing in US Policy. London: Saqi Books, 2002. 274 pp.
Graf H.C. Sponeck,
A Different Kind of War: The UN Sanctions Regime in Iraq. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. xiv, 322 pp.
Status of U.S. Efforts Regarding Iraq's Compliance with United Nations Security Council
Resolutions. A series of reports under this title were sent by the President to the Congress.
President William Jefferson Clinton, April 12, 2000. House Document 106-223. 7 pp.
President
William Jefferson Clinton, January 20, 2001. House Document 107-25. 8 pp.
President
George W. Bush, October 12, 2001. House Document 107-132. 9 pp.
Scott Taylor,
Spinning on the Axis of Evil: America’s War against Iraq. Ottawa: Esprit de Corps Books,
2003. 232 pp. Among other things, this book recounts several trips Taylor, a Canadian journalist,
made to Iraq between the two U.S. wars.
Lt. Col. Paul K. White, USAF,
Crises After the Storm: An Appraisal of U.S. Airpower in Iraq since 1991. Military Research Papers,
#2. Washington: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1999. 93 pp.
Jeffrey A. Meyer and Mark G. Califano,
Good Intentions Corrupted: The Oil-for-Food Program and the Threat to the U.N. Introduction by
Paul A. Volcker. New York: PublicAffairs, 2006. xl, 275 pp.
House Committee on Commerce
The
Iraqi Oil for Food Program and Its Impact. Hearing, Subcommittee on Energy and Power,
House Committee on Commerce, March 26, 1999. iii, 105 pp.
House Committee on Energy and Commerce
The
United Nations Oil-for-Food Program: Saddam Hussein's Use of Oil Allocations to Undermine Sanctions and the
United Nations Security Council. Hearing, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations,
House Committee on Energy and Commerce, May 16, 2005. iii, 415 pp.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
New
Proposals to Expand Iraqi Oil for Food: The End of Sanctions?. Hearing, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and
South Asian Affairs,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, March 17, 1999. iii, 39 pp. Thomas R. Pickering, Under Secretary
of State for Political Affairs; Bill Richardson, Secretary of Energy.
House Committee on Government Reform
The
Iraq Oil-For-Food Program: starving for accountability. Hearing before the Subcommittee on National
Security, Emerging Threats,
and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, April 21,
2004. iii, 285 pp.
The
U.N. Oil-for-Food Program: The Inevitable Failure of U.N. Sanctions. Hearing before the Subcommittee on
National Security, Emerging Threats,
and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, April 12,
2005. iii, 193 pp.
House Committee on International Relations
The United Nations
Oil-for-Food Program: Issues of Accountability and Transparency. Hearing, April 28, 2004,
House Committee on International Relations. iii, 170 pp. Serial No. 108-110.
The
Oil-for-Food Program: Tracking the Funds. Hearing, November 17, 2004,
House Committee on International Relations. iii, 61 pp. Serial No. 108-157.
The Volcker Interim Report
on the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program. Hearing, February 9, 2005,
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on International Relations. iii, 98 pp. Serial
No. 109-28.
The United Nations
Oil-for-Food Program: The Cotecna and Saybolt Inspection Firms. Hearing, March 17, 2005,
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on International Relations. iii, 76 pp. Serial
No. 109-27.
The Role of BNP-Paribas in
the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program. Hearing, April 18, 2005,
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on International Relations. iii, 92 pp. Serial
No. 109-72.
Syria and the United Nations
Oil-for-Food Program. Joint Hearing, July 27, 2005, Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia,
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on International Relations. v, 39 pp. Serial
No. 109-77.
The Oil-for-Food Program:
The Systemic Failure of the United Nations. Report, December 7, 2005,
House Committee on International Relations. 183
pp. Main text of the report
(the appendices are in separate .pdf files, accessible through
the committee's archive page.
James Bamford,
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies. New York:
Doubleday (Random House), 2004. 420 pp. Paperback [with a substantial afterword added, pp. 379-423]
New York: Anchor (Random House), 2005. 472 pp.
Rod Barton,
The Weapons Detective: The Inside Story of Australia's Top Weapons Inspector. Melbourne, Australia:
Black Inc. Agenda, 2006. x, 278 pp. Most of this deals with Barton's investigations of Iraqi WMD programs.
Hans Blix,
Disarming Iraq. New York: Pantheon, 2004. x, 285 pp.
Richard Butler,
The Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Crisis of Global Security. New York:
PublicAffairs, 2000. xxiv, 262 pp. Butler was the former chairman of UNSCOM.
Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of
Mass Destruction [Laurence Silberman and Charles S. Robb, co-chairmen],
Report to the President of the United States,
March 31, 2005. xi, 601 pp.
Comprehensive
Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq's WMD, With Addendums (The Duelfer Report). Central
Intelligence Agency, 2005. The
original report was dated September 30, 2004. The addenda were added in March 2005.
Bob Drogin,
Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War. New York: Random House, 2007. xxi, 343
pp. Drogin is a journalist, with the Los Angeles Times.
Peter Eisner and Knut Royce,
The Italian Letter: How the Bush Administration Used a Fake Letter to Build the Case for War in
Iraq. Rodale Press, 2007. The supposed purchase of uranium from Africa.
Khidir Hamza with Jeff Stein,
Saddam’s Bombmaker: The Daring Escape of the Man Who Built Iraq’s Secret Weapon. pb New York:
Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), 2001. 352 pp. [There may have been a 2000 hardback].
Stephen F. Hayes,
The Connection: How al Qaeda’s Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America. Hayes is a
reporter for the Weekly Standard.
Joost R. Hiltermann,
A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja. New York: Cambridge University Press,
2007. xxvii, 314 pp.
Robert Jervis,
“Reports, Politics, and Intelligence Failures: The Case of Iraq.” Journal of
Strategic Studies, 29:1 (Feb 2006), pp. 3-52. Online to institutions like Clemson that have paid the fee.
House Committee on Foreign Affairs / House Committee on International Relations
Israeli Attack on Iraqi Nuclear Facilities. Hearings, subcommittees of the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs, June 17, 25, 1981. iv, 132 pp. The June 7, 1981 Israeli bombing of the Osirak nuclear reactor.
Disarming Iraq: the status of weapons inspections. Hearing, September 15, 1998,
House Committee on International Relations. iii, 149 pp. Martin S. Indyk and William S. Ritter (Scott Ritter).
U.N.
Inspections of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs: Has Saddam Won?. Hearing, House Committee on
International Relations, September 26, 2000. iii, 37 pp. Ambassador Richard Butler of UNSCOM; Stephen J. Solarz.
U.S. Nonproliferation Policy after
Iraq. Hearing, June 4, 2003,
House Committee on International Relations. iii, 85 pp. Serial No. 108-38. Several non-government
witnesses, plus John Bolton, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.
Iraq
on the Record: The Bush Administration's Public Statements on Iraq. Report, Special Investigations
Division, Minority Staff, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, March 16,
2004. iv, 30 pp. Prepared for Rep. Henry A. Waxman.
Jean E. Krasno and James E. Sutterlin,
The United Nations and Iraq: Defanging the Viper. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. 264 pp. A study of
UNSCOM, apparently focused on 1991-1998.
Mahdi Obeidi and Kurt Pitzer,
The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam’s Nuclear Mastermind. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons,
2004. xiii, 242 pp. Favorably reviewed by Hayden Peake,
Reports of Weapons of Mass Destruction Findings in Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on Armed Services,
June 29, 2006. iii, 105 pp.
Senate Committee on Armed Services
Weapons of Mass Destruction Program of Iraq. Hearing, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and
Capabilities, Senate Committee on Armed Services, February 27, 2002. iii, 114 pp. Anthony H. Cordesman and
Charles A. Duelfer.
Efforts to determine the status of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and related programs. Hearing,
Senate Committee on Armed Services, January 28, 2004. iii, 48 pp.
The report of the Special Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence for strategy regarding
Iraqi weapons of mass destruction programs. Hearing, Senate Committee on
Armed Services, October 6, 2004. iii, 70 pp.
Report of an
Inquiry into the Alternative Analysis of the Issue of an Iraq-al Qaeda
Relationship. Minority staff report, Senate Committee on Armed Services, October 21, 2004, issued
under the name of Senator Carl Levin, who had assigned the minority staff to write it. 46 pp.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Israeli Air Strike. Hearings, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, June 11, 19, 25, 1981. iv,
299 pp. The June 7, 1981 Israeli bombing of the Osirak nuclear reactor.
The U.S. Policy Regarding United Nations Inspections of Iraqi Chemical Sites. Joint Hearing, Senate
Committees on Foreign Relations and Armed Services, September 3, 1998. iii, 48 pp. Strom Thurmond chaired
the hearing. The witness was William S. Ritter (Scott Ritter), who had resigned from UNSCOM the previous
week. He exaggerated the situation pretty wildly: "Iraq is positioning itself today so that once
effective inspection regimes have been terminated, it will be able to reconstitute the entirety of its former
nuclear, chemical and ballistic missile delivery system capabilities within a period of 6 months" (p. 27).
The
Formulation of Effective Nonproliferation Policy. Hearings, Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, March 21, 23, 28, 30, 2000. iii, 217 pp. The primary witnesses on Iran and Iran
(pp. 121-155) were Richard Butler, Anthony H. Cordesman, and Rolf Ekeus. But it might be worth checking the
testimony of Donald Rumsfeld and Stephen J. Hadley, too see whether they said anything that illuminats their
future policies.
The
January 27 UNMOVIC and IAEA Reports to the U.N. Security Council on Inspections in Iraq. Hearing, Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, January 30, 2003. iii, 82 pp. Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage;
U.S. Representative to the United Nations John D. Negroponte.
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Iraq. Hearing, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, September 19, 1996. iii, 29 pp.
Report
of the Select Committee on Intelligence on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence
Assessments on Iraq together with Additional Views. Report, Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, July 9, 2004. ix, 511
pp. Also
online broken into smaller chunks at GlobalSecurity.org.
Report on the use by the intelligence community of information provided by the Iraqi National Congress:
together with additional and minority views. Report, Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, 2006. 208 pp.
Report on postwar findings about Iraq's WMD programs and links to terrorism and how they compare with
prewar assessments: together with additional and minority views. Report, Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, 2006. 148 pp.
Report on Whether Public Statements Regarding Iraq by U.S. Government Officials Were Substantiated
By Intelligence. June 5, 2008. 172 pp. S. Rpt. 110-345.
Craig R. Whitney, ed.,
The WMD Mirage: Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War. New York:
Public Affairs, 2005. xxvii, 671 pp.
Joseph Wilson,
The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife’s CIA Identity. New York:
Carroll & Graf, 2004. 513 pp. After Wilson publicly denounced an inaccurate statement by President Bush
about Iraq's nuclear weapons program, White House officials leaked to various reporters the fact that his
wife (below) worked for the CIA.
Valerie Plame Wilson,
Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. 320
pp.
Tariq Ali,
Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq. London and New York: Verso, 2003. x, 214 pp. Very
critical of U.S. policy, from a leftist perspective.
Yossef Bodansky,
The Secret History of the Iraq War. New York: ReganBooks (HarperCollins), 2004. 570 pp. I have not
read this book, but I have been told that in it Bodansky, ex-director of the Congressional Task Force on
Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, makes statements I find most improbable, such as
that Saddam Husayn was deeply involved with al-Qa'ida; that he dispatched a 500-man terrorist battalion to
North America in 2002; and that Iraqi forces were armed with WMDs that have been hidden in Syria or buried in the
Iraqi desert. The book has a some bibliographic information but no source notes.
Colonel Walter J. Boyne, USAF (Ret.),
Operation Iraqi Freedom: What Went Right, What Went Wrong, and Why. New York: Forge (Tom Doherty
Associates), 2003. 304 pp.
Robert K. Brigham,
Is Iraq Another Vietnam? New York: PublicAffairs, 2006. xv, 207 pp. I don't know whether any
modifications are being made in the paperback edition, Iraq, Vietnam, and the Limits of American
Power. New York: PublicAffairs, 2008 (forthcoming).
Matthew Currier Burden,
The Blog of War: Front-Line Dispatches from Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. New York:
Simon & Schuster, 2006. 191 pp. I am told this is made up predominantly of the writings of soldiers
who support the war and U.S. policy.
Alastair Campbell,
The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries. Hutchinson, 2007. 816 pp. pb Arrow Books, 2008. 816
pp. Diaries of British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s press secretary.
Kenneth J. Campbell,
A Tale of Two Quagmires: Iraq, Vietnam, and the Hard Lessons of War. Boulder, Colorado:
Paradigm Publishers, 2007. 160 pp. Very anti-war.
Christopher Cerf and Micah L. Sifry, eds.,
The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions. Touchstone, 2003. 736 pp.
Alexander Cockburn (and Jeffrey St. Clair?),
Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia: A Diary of Three Wars. London and New York:
Verso, 2004. 378 pp.
Patrick Cockburn,
The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq. London and New York: Verso, 2006. 229 pp. Cockburn, a
British journalist who wrote for the Independent and the London Review of Books, arrived in Iraq just
before the war began in 2003, and stayed covering the insurgency.
Joseph J. Collins,
Choosing War: The Decision to Invade Iraq
and Its Aftermath. Washington, D.C.: National Defense
University Press, 2008. x, 43 pp. Institute for National Strategic Studies Occasional Paper 5.
Robin Cook,
The Point of Departure: Why One of Britain’s Leading Politicians Resigned over Tony Blair’s Decision to
Go to War in Iraq. Simon & Schuster, 2004. 384 pp. pb The Point of Departure:
Diaries from the Front Bench. Pocket Books, 2004. 432 pp. Cook, Leader of the British House of Commons and
former Foreign Secretary, resigned from Tony Blair’s cabinet on March 17, 2003, in protest against the
impending war in Iraq.
Anthony H. Cordesman,
The Iraq War: Strategy, Tactics, and Military Lessons. Westport: Praeger, 2003. xiv, 572 pp.
Paul Cornish, ed.,
The Conflict in Iraq, 2003. New York: St. Martin’s, 2004. 297 pp.
Sara Daniel,
Voyage to a Stricken Land: Four Years on the Ground Reporting from Iraq: A Woman’s Inside Story. Translated from the French by George Holoch. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2006. xii, 193 pp. A French journalist, who had previously worked in the U.S. and Jordan, and who in Iraq covered both Americans and insurgents.
Mark Danner,
The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War’s Buried History. New York:
Random House (New York Review Books?). 176 pp.
Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong, USMC, Ret., with Noah Lukeman,
Inside CentCom: The Unvarnished Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Washington, DC:
Regnery, 2004. xviii, 222 pp. “Rifle” DeLong was deputy commander of CENTCOM.
Howard A. DeWitt,
The Road to Baghdad. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 2003. 158 pp.
Larry Diamond,
Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq. New York: Times Books/Henry Holt, 2005. 369 pp. Diamond was in Iraq as an adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority from January to April 2004.
Thomas Donnelly,
Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Strategic Assessment. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute,
2004. xvi, 123 pp.
James Fallows,
Blind Into Baghdad: America’s War in Iraq. New York: Vintage (Random House), 2006. xxv, 229 pp.
Mike Ferner,
Inside the Red Zone: A Veteran for Peace Reports from Iraq. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. xv, 164 pp.
Alan Feuer,
Over There: From the Bronx to Baghdad. New York: Counterpoint, 2005. ix, 283 pp.
Sean Michael Flynn,
The Fighting 69th: One Remarkable National Guard Unit's Journey from Ground Zero to Baghdad. New
York: Viking(?), 2008 (forthcoming).
From the Editors of Time,
21 Days to Baghdad: The Inside Story of How America Won the War Against Iraq. New York:
Time Books, 2003. 176 pp. Mostly pictures; a moderate amount of text, pretty enthusiastic about the war.
Lloyd C. Gardner and Marilyn B. Young, eds.,
Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam, Or, How Not to Learn from the Past. New York: The New Press, 2007. 322 pp.
Charles Glass, The Northern Front: A Wartime Diary. Foreword by P.J. O’Rourke. London: Saqi,
2006. 275 pp. In January 2003, Glass accompanied some of the exile leaders (including Kanan Makiya and
Ahmad Chalabi) to Iraqi Kurdistan (going in through Iran), to await the coming war there.
Michael R. Gordon and General Bernard E Trainor,
Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq. New York: Pantheon, 2006. xxxii, 603 pp.
Philip H. Gordon & Jeremy Shapiro,
Allies at War: America, Europe, and the Crisis over Iraq. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004. vi, 266 pp.
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Andrew M. Greeley,
A Stupid, Unjust, and Criminal War: Iraq, 2001-2007. Orbis, 2007. 215 pp.
La guerre en Irak, le livre noir. Documents reunis at presentes par Reporters san
frontieres. Preface de Robert Menard, postface d’Olivier Weber. Paris: Editions la Decouverte,
2004. 219 pp. A collection of reports by Human Rights Watch and other groups about human rights violations
during the American war.
Tom Hayden,
Ending the War in Iraq. New York: Akashic Books, 2007. 217 pp. Traces the conflicts between
antiwar forces and the neoconservatives back to the 1960s.
Michael T. Heaney and Fabio Rojas,
"The Place of Framing:
Multiple Audiences and Antiwar Protests Near Fort Bragg," Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 29, No. 4
(December 2006): 484-505.
Michael T. Heaney and Fabio Rojas,
"Partisans, Nonpartisans, and the Antiwar Movement in the United States," American Politics Research,
Vol. 35, No. 4 (July 2007), pp.
431-464. The text is online to users at
subscribing institutions.
Seymour M. Hersh,
Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib. New York: HarperCollins, 2004. xix, 394 pp.
Raphael Israeli,
The Iraq War: Hidden Agendas and Babylonian Intrigue: The Regional Impact on Shi’ites, Kurds,
Sunnis, and Arabs. Portland, Oregon: Sussex Academic Press, 2004. x, 278 pp.
Sheila Enslev Johnston,
The Iraqi Conflict. Canada: Altitude Publishing, 2008. 192 pp. Johnston is a former
Canadian Army officer and a student of military affairs, but the publisher’s publicity does not mention
any particular qualifications regarding Iraq.
John Kampfner,
Blair’s Wars. The Free Press, 2003. pb with a new preface (and possibly other changes?)
The Free Press, 2004. 401 pp.
John Keegan,
The Iraq War. New York: Knopf, 2004. 272 pp. I usually like Keegan's work, but I saw more errors
in this one than I had expected.
Steven Kettell,
Dirty Politics? New Labour, British Democracy and the Invasion of Iraq. Zed Books, 2006. 256 pp.
Michael Knights, ed.,
Operation Iraqi Freedom and the New Iraq: Insights and Forecasts. Washington: Washington Institute for
New East Policy, 2004. 375 pp.
Jim Lacey and Sharon Tosi Moore, eds.,
Fresh from the Fight: The Invasion and Occupation of Iraq: An Anthology of National War College
Studies by American Combat Commanders. Zenith Press, 2008 (forthcoming).
Michael A. Ledeen,
The Iranian Time Bomb: The Mullah Zealots' Quest for Destruction. New YOrk: Truman
Talley Books/St. Martin's, 2007. 234 pp. Judging from the review
in the New York Times Book Review, September 9, 2007, this seems to be a rather silly book, arguing
that Iran has been controlling the Sunni insurgency in Iraq, and controlling Al Qaeda. Ledeen works at the
American Enterprise Institute.
Matthew McAllester,
Blinded by the Sunlight: Surviving Abu Ghraib and Saddam’s Iraq. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 284 pp.
Thomas G. Mahnken, ed.,
War in Iraq: Planning and Execution. London: Routledge, 2007. 263 pp.
Camilo Mejía,
Road from Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía. New York: New Press,
2007. 312 pp. Camilo Mejia went into Iraq, probably in April 2003 (though I didn’t see a date on a brief scan)
with C Company, 1-124 Infantry, Florida National Guard. In 2004 he applied for a CO discharge from the
National Guard; he ended up being prosecuted for desertion. Apparently a pretty negative picture of
US operations in the Sunni Triangle.
Richard F. Miller,
A Carrier at War: On Board the USS Kitty Hawk in the Iraq War. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books,
2005. xii, 243 pp. Miller, an amateur historian of the Civil War, was embedded aboard the Kitty Hawk,
as a correspondent for Talk Radio New Service, from March 9 to March 23, 2003.
Greg Mitchell,
So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits--and the President--Failed on Iraq. New York:
(Union Square Press? Sterling?), 2008 (forthcoming). 320 pp.
Heraldo Muñoz,
A Solitary War: A Diplomat’s Chronicle of the Iraq War and Its Lessons. Foreword by Kofi Annan. Golden,
Colorado: Fulcrum, 2008. xiii, 270 pp. Munoz was Chile’s ambassador to the United Nations.
Williamson Murray and Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr.,
The Iraq War: A Military History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. 368 pp.
Laurie Mylroie,
The War Against America: Saddam Hussein and the World Trade Center Attacks: A Study of Revenge. 2nd
rev. ed. Foreword by R. James Woolsey. pb New York: ReganBooks (HarperCollins), 2001. xxviii, 318 pp. Front
cover blurb by Paul Wolfowitz. The original was Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein’s Unfinished War Against
America. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Press, 2000. xviii, 323 pp.
Laurie Mylroie,
Bush vs the Beltway: How the CIA and the State Department Tried to Stop the War on Terror. New York:
Regan Books, 2003. 258 pp. Judging by the description in AFIO WIN 08/16/04, this is pretty fanciful about
links between Saddam and Al Quaeda, related issues.
Erick W. Nason,
From Desert Storm to Iraqi Freedom: One Soldier's Story. Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHOuse,
2006. 251 pp. Nason as a Special Forces soldier did SAR during Desert Storm; he was in northern Iraq in
2003, and later in Baghdad.
Off target: The Conduct of the War and
Civilian Casualties in IraqGeneral and Miscellaneous
DS 62.8 .F53 2005
U.S. Policy: Overall
S 1.1:
Foreign
Relations of the United States web site. The University of Wisconsin has
made many of the older volumes available online at its own
Foreign
Relations of the United States web site. Most of the published volumes
are now available online in one or the other of these collections. The recent volumes dealing with
Iraq of which I am aware are:
E 183.8 .I57 S44 2008
Iraq
DS 79.66 .S575 G65 2005
DS70.8 .S55 N35 1994
Y 4.B 22/3:S.HRG.102-996
The Iran-Iraq War, and U.S. Involvement in It
Y 4.F 76/1:P 43/7
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.prt.100-38
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.100-1035
Y 4.F 76/2:S.prt.98-225
Y 4.F 76/2:S.prt.100-60
Y 4.F 76/2:S.hrg.101-1055
The First U.S. - Iraq War: Desert Shield and Desert Storm (1990-1991)
Overall Desert Storm and Miscellaneous
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.101-1071
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.101-1128/pt.1-2
Air Power Desert Storm
D 301.26/6:AR 5/2
D 301.26/6:C 76/6 (microfiche)
D 301.82/7:ST 8/2
D 301.26/6:AU 7/3X
D 301.82/7:G 95
D 214.13:P 43/7
D 301.26/6:SA 5
D 301.26/6:C 88/996 (microfiche)
Friendly Fire
Y 4.G 74/9: S.HRG. 104-268
MICROFICHE GA 1.13: NSIAD-94-19
microfiche GA 1.13: OSI-93-4
microfiche GA 1.13:NSIAD-96-91 R
Ground War Desert Storm
D 102.83:
DS79.735 .R37 M67 2004
D 101.2:D 45/6
D 214.13:P 43
D 214.13:P 43/5
[Probably D 214.13:P 43/1 but I have been unable to verify this]
D 214.13:P 43/3
D 214.13:P 43/2
D 214.13:P 43/4
D 214.13:P 43/6
Covert & Special Ops Desert Storm
Media Desert Storm
Medical Consequences of Desert Storm
Y 4.AP 6/2:S.HRG.106-843
Y 4.G 74/7:G 95/7
Y 4.G 74/7:P 43/11
. Hearing,
Subcommittee on Health, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, April 23, 1998.
Y 4.V 64/3:105-35
Y 4.V 64/3:108-19
Y 1.1/5:105-362
Vol. 1. Lee H. Hilborne and Beatrice Alexandra Golomb, Infectious Diseases. 2000. 144
pp. Available online if you are browsing
through an institution that has paid for a subscription to NetLibrary.
Vol. 2. Beatrice Alexandra Golomb, Pyridostigmine Bromide. 1999. 423 pp.
Vol. 3. Beatrice Alexandra Golomb, Immunizations. 2003. 290 pp.
Vol. 4. Grant N. Marshall, Lois M. Davis, Cathy D. Sherburne, with David W. Foy et al., Stress. 2000. 143 pp.
Vol. 5. William S. Augerson, Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents. 2000. 314
pp. Available online if you are browsing
through an institution that has paid for a subscription to NetLibrary.
Vol. 6. Dalia M. Spektor, Oil Well Fires. 1998. 96 pp.
Vol. 7. Naomi H. Harley et. al., Depleted Uranium. 1999. 144 pp.
Vol. 8. Gary Cecchine et. al., Pesticides. 2000. 216 pp.
Y 4.V 64/4:S.HRG.103-983
Y 4.IN 8/19:S.HRG.104-867
pp. 225-433 are: "U.S. Chemical and Biological Warfare-Related Dual Use Exports to Iraq and their
Possible Impact on the Health Consequences of the Persian Gulf War," staff report of the Senate Committee on
Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, May 25, 1994.
pp. 434-551 are: "U.S. Chemical and Biological Warfare-Related Dual Use Exports to Iraq and their
Possible Impact on the Health Consequences of the Persian Gulf War," staff report of the Senate Committee on
Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, October 7, 1994.
Navy Desert Storm
D 221.2:G 95
Y 4.M 53:102-57
Y 4.M 53:101-120
Iraq between the two American Wars
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:999-2000/10
Y 4.F 76/1: IR 1/15
Y 4.IN 8/16:IR 1/3
Y 4.IN 8/16:IR 1/7
Y 4.IN 8/16:IR 1/3/2000
Y 4.SE 2/1 A:995-96/38
Y 4.SE 2/1 A:997-98/51
D 101. 2: K 96/ 2
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.104-788
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.106-327
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.106-1121
Y 4.J 89/2:S.prt.102-31
Y 4.J 89/2:S.HRG.105-993
. Staff report,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, May 1991. vii, 28 pp.
Y 4.F 76/2:S.prt.102-27
Y 4.F 76/2:S.prt.102-56 [mistakenly listed in the Clemson Library catalog as Y 4.F 76/2:S.prt.105-56]
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.103-893
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.104-280
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.105-444
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.105-650
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.105-725
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.106-41
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.106-241
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.106-261
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.106-735
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.106-824
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.107-19
JX 1246 .S47 1998
Y 1.1/7:106-223
Y 1.1/7:107-25
Y 1.1/7:107-132
The Oil-for-Food Program
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.106-86
Y 4.G 74/7:IR 1/6
Y 4.IN 8/16OI 5/4
Y 4.IN 8/16OI 5/5
Y 4.IN 8/16OI 5/6
Y 4.IN 8/16OI 5/7
Y 4.IN 8/16OI 5/8
Y 4.IN 8/16OI 5/9
WMDs and Accusations about Iraqi Links with Al Qaeda
PREX 1.19:IN 8/W 37
Y 4.F 76/1:Is 7/3
Y 4.IN 8/16:IR 1/9
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2005-2006/115
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.107-573
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.108-678
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.108-855
Y 4.F 76/2:Is 7/3
Y 4.F 76/2:P 75/13
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.106-655
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-35
Y 4.IN 8/19:S.HRG.104-796
Y 1.1/5:108-301
[another copy down on level 1, call number KF31.5 .I5 2004]
Y 1/1/5:109-330
Y 1/1/5:109-331
The Second U.S. - Iraq War (2003- )
General and Miscellaneous
DS 79.76 .I87 2004