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Title:
On Course to Desert Storm: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf (ePub eBook) Agency Publisher:
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666-666-00000-3 ISBN
9780945274636
Description
Traces the history of the United States Navy and the Persian Gulf from 1800 to the end of the Iran-Iraq War in 1988.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Preface: A Line in the Sand
Acknowledgments
PART ONE: An English Lake, 1800-1945
1. Americans: No. 2 Englishmen in the Gulf
2. The Second World War and the Persian Gulf
PART TWO: Establishing a U.S. Military Presence in the Persian Gulf, 1946-1950
3. The Iran Crisis of 1946
4. The Oil Scare of 1947-1948
5. Establishment of the Middle East Force
PART THREE: Assuring Access to Adequate Oil Supplies, 1950-1981
6. Arab Nationalism and the Defense of the Middle East
7. The United States and Iran
8. War, Intervention, Crisis, and War
9. The Nixon Doctrine and the Twin Pillars
10. The Carter Administration and the Gulf
PART FOUR: The United States, the Gulf, and the Iran-Iraq War, 1981-1988
11. "Now While This President Serves": The Reflagging Decision
12. The United States and the Tanker War
Conclusion
Appendixes
Notes Bibliography
Index
Tables
Illustrations
Audience
Historians, political scientists, military strategists and international relations scholars may value the accounts of the relationship between the U.S. Navy and the Persian Gulf throughout history contained within this text.
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$7.99
Publisher:
U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Navy, Navy History & Heritage Command (formerly Navy Historical Center)
Author:
- Michael Palmer
