The Gulf War was a limited war between Iraq and Kuwait that caused international conflict. It started on August 2, 1990 when the leader and dictator of Iraq at the time, Saddam Hussein, decided to invade Kuwait. There were many reasons as to why Hussein decided to order this invasion including wanting to pay off debts, as well as overtaking Kuwait’s growing oil reserves. So this brings me to my research question which is: How did the Gulf War harm Iraq economically, socially and politically? This question will be explored by tacking the leader and political party of Iraq at the time, the Gulf War itself and the effects of the Gulf War, both politically and economically.
Saddam Hussein was the dictator of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. His rule was very unstable and over the last couple years it only became worse. He was part of the Ba’ath party, which believed in the formation of a single Arab nation. This party was socialist and believed that the nation should too be socialist. Due to Saddam being of the Ba’ath party, his rule fell under socialism. In reality he was a dictator who ruled with an iron fist using fear to his advantage, eliminating those who opposed his rule
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The Gulf War is considered to be a limited war. A limited war is a war that is fought in a minimal area with minimal effort and destruction put in. While is it true in terms of warfare that the Gulf war was minimal, however that did not meat that the are had detrimental effects on both countries involved. Though in this essay I will only be focusing on Iraq. After the war, Saddam was especially brutal to the Kurds up north who were some of the people that opposed the Ba’ath party, when they were having uprisings. The problem was that while the coalition wanted to help, they were unable to support the uprisings and Saddam’s brutality resulted in many