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Perhaps someone with a better knowledge of the Iran-Iraq War can enlighten on this issue. Iran pushed Iraq out of Khuzestan culminating in what would be known as the Liberation of Khorramshahr with thousands of Iraqis captured and would signal the start of the Iranian invasion including the...

Saddam Hussein for whatever reason decides to drop his anti-American and anti-Western stance (and by extension his anti-Israel rhetoric) agreeing to all of the demands of the UN and IAEA and expressing a strong desire for Iraq to return within the fold ‘of the civilized world.’ The United States...

So lets say Saddam hires some kind of military advisor mercenary type from the west or former eastern bloc to advise him on military matters. He's already committed to the Gulf War, but the advisor recommends that he instead of deploying his army in the middle of the Kuwaiti desert against the...

The 1991 Iraqi uprising was a crucial moment in modern Iraqi, and by extension, Middle Eastern history, and very nearly succeeded in deposing Saddam. There were a variety of factors why they failed, but one damning mention that I have found is the acceptance by General Norman Schwarzkopf of...

POD: November 2000: Al Gore makes one extra campaign stop in Florida and managed to convince 1,000 people to vote for him, narrowly carrying the state by 463 votes. January 20, 2001: Albert Arnold Gore Jr. is sworn in as the 43rd President of the United States. September 11, 2001: 9/11...

I read that, during the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein deployed about 100,000 troops for the initial invasion of Kuwait and an additional 600,000 troops in the following weeks/months (about 700,000 troops in total!). It seems like that would have made Iraq the fourth strongest military in the world...

Operation Red Dawn (indeed named after that 80’s movie) was an US military operation undertaken in december 2003 with the objective of capturing Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who was trying to flee to a region to the centre of Iraq known as the “Sunni Triangle”, a strong base of support for his...

Is it plausible for Saddam Hussein, perhaps through not pissing off the US too much, to become leader of a late UAR of sorts? How many Arab countries can he properly sweep under his wing? How would a "Husseinist" UAR differ from a "Nasserist" UAR?

Pain can be rigorously hard to define when you are unable to trace it well. Uday wished he had the pleasure of being unsure - of perhaps chalking his pain up to something that wasn't as mundane as eight bullets fired from the gun of a Shi'ite. The fact he now had all the time to reflect on it...