Saddam Hussein et la débâcle triomphante. Les ressources insoupçonnées de Umm al-Ma‘ârik
The Iraqi regime’s performance throughout the 1991 crisis has led to two vastly conflicting readings. Basic common-sense frame it as an unqualified defeat. Saddam Hussein, on the other hand, termed the “Mother of All Battles”, an absolute triumph. Such an overstatement was not simply a despot’s fant...
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| Language: | English |
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Université de Provence
2007-07-01
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| Series: | Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/remmm/3401 |