Limited War, Strategic Success: Bush’s Gulf War Restraint and the Current Iran War

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The article analyzes the 1991 Gulf War under President George H.W. Bush's administration, highlighting its strategy of limited military success to achieve political goals. It draws parallels with the current Iran war, emphasizing restraint and coalition preservation as key factors.

Introduction The 1991 Gulf War remains useful to historians and policymakers. Its circumstances cannot be mechanically reproduced, but the George H.W. Bush administration’s approach to military success as a means to secure a limited political end was a rare, invaluable source of understanding of limited war. The U.S. expelled Iraq from Kuwait, preserved the coalition built for that purpose, and … Read more The post Limited War, Strategic Success: Bush’s Gulf War Restraint and the Current Iran War appeared first on Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University.