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The Mother of all Battles: Saddam Hussein's Strategic Plan for the Persian Gulf War

(p. 18) In the end, the attack proved a failure, but from Saddam's perspective and apparently from the perspective of the troops it was a victory “because they managed to launch a well-planned and successful nighttime attach despite the enemy's spy satellites, drones, surveillance aircraft and techn...

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Published in:DOMES: Digest of Middle East Studies Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 127 - 131
Main Author: Frantzman, Seth J.
Format: Book Review
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Spr 2009
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