* 1990 – Gulf War: the United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U. S. destroyers and.

* 1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.

This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.

* 1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western " guests " ( actually hostages ) to try to prevent the Gulf War.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow – American aircraft from carriers and bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U. S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.

Up until World War II it was still possible to regard the city as being a settlement of narrow streets localized to some part of the harbor or the Gulf of Ajaccio ; such bucolic descriptions do not fit the city of today, and travellogues intended for mountain or coastal recreational areas do not generally apply to Corsica's few big cities.

It was used to good advantage in the 1991 Gulf War, where it scored many USAF air-to-air kills ; its kill probability, overall, is still less than 40 %.

HARM was used extensively by the United States Navy and the United States Air Force for Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War of 1991.

During the Gulf War, the HARM was involved in a friendly fire incident when the pilot of an F-4G Wild Weasel escorting a B-52 bomber mistook the latter's tail gun radar for an Iraqi AAA site.

During the Gulf War, if an aircraft was illuminated by enemy radar a bogus " Magnum " call on the radio was often enough to convince the operators to power down.

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Because Bush's approval ratings were in the 80 % range during the Gulf War, he was described as unbeatable.

A Brazilian-made Avibras ASTROS-II SS-30 multiple rocket systems on Tectran 6x6 AV-LMU trucks stand in firing position while being displayed as part of a demonstration of Saudi Arabia n equipment during Operation Desert Shield ( Gulf War ) | Operation Desert Shield in 1991.

Sometimes in desert warfare, there is no nearby town name to use ; map coordinates gave the name to the Battle of 73 Easting in the First Gulf War.

During the first Gulf War the United Nations activated a biological and chemical response team, Task Force Scorpio, to respond to any potential use of weapons of mass destruction on civilians.

Thus, a number of Allied soldiers received the Bronze Star Medal in World War II, as well as U. N. soldiers in the Korean War, Vietnamese and allied forces in the Vietnam War, and coalition forces in recent military operations such as the Gulf War, Operation Enduring Freedom and the Iraq War.

The shield can be shown surrounded by the insignia of an honorary Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath ( KCB ), an award the General received after the first Gulf War.

Category: American military personnel of the Gulf War

Category: Military leaders of the Gulf War

* Jean Baudrillard-The Gulf War Did Not Take Place

The essays in Libération and the Guardian were published before, during and after the Gulf War and they were titled accordingly: During the American military and rhetorical buildup as " The Gulf War Will not take Place "; during military action as " The Gulf War is not Taking Place ", and after action was over, " The Gulf War Did Not Take Place ".

* Baudrillard, Jean ( 1995 ) The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, Bloomington: Indiana University Press

* The Gulf War Did Not Take Place

Tlillan-Tlapallan ' Place of the black and red colour ' is a legendary place or region on the Gulf Coast of Mexico where king Quetzalcoatl went on his flight from Tollan in order to burn himself and change into the Morning Star.

Other popular attractions include the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo ( as featured in Animal Planet's, “ The Little Zoo that Could ”); Pelican Place at Craft Farms, a shopping mall ; and Waterville USA, a family amusement / waterpark.

*" I Start From a Place of Outrage and Sadness ": A conversation on humor in fiction with Elisa Albert, Steve Almond, Brock Clarke, Sam Lipsyte, Zachary Martin, John McNally, and Deb Olin Unferth in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts ( 24. 2 )

*" I Start From a Place of Outrage and Sadness ": A conversation on humor in fiction with Elisa Albert, Steve Almond, Brock Clarke, Sam Lipsyte, Zachary Martin, John McNally, and Deb Olin Unferth in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts ( 24. 2 )

Gulf Harbors and its sister communities, the Woodlands, Sea Forest, Sea Colony, Egrets Place and Harbor Colony are deed restricted, waterfront communities and cater to boating and fishing enthusiasts.

Chavez serves several areas of Houston outside of the 610 Loop in southeast Houston, including the neighborhoods of Glenbrook Valley, Gulf Freeway Oaks, and Park Place.

The particles were never observed to rise above 6 km and when combined with scavenging by clouds gave the smoke a short residency time in the atmosphere and localized its effects ; Professor Carl Sagan of the Turco, Toon, Ackerman, Pollack, Sagan ( TTAPS ) study hypothesized in January 1991 that enough smoke from the fires " might get so high as to disrupt agriculture in much of South Asia ...." Sagan later conceded in his book The Demon-Haunted World that this prediction did not turn out to be correct: " it was pitch black at noon and temperatures dropped 4 °– 6 ° C over the Persian Gulf, but not much smoke reached stratospheric altitudes and Asia was spared.

Considering the historical background of the name Persian Gulf, Sir Arnold Wilson mentions in a book, published in 1928 that:

The book occurs after the Persian Gulf War and before the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Friendly Fire ( 1992 ) is, like Black's first book, an eclectic collection touching on many topics including the Art Strike, Nietzsche, the first Gulf War and the Dial-a-Rumor telephone project he conducted with Zack Replica ( 1981-1983 ).

Davis wrote most of this book while staying at Beauvoir along the Mississippi Gulf Coast near Biloxi, Mississippi.

( This book has an excellent description of a trip up the Orinoco as far as Ciudad Bolívar and a detailed description of the Venezuelan Pitch Lake situated on the western side of the Gulf of Paria opposite.

In this book, the authors have written that The Persia governor granted the right of making wine at Shiraz to Louis de I ' Estoile for his own use and to export five horses each year from Bandar-e-Abbas ( located in Persian Gulf ).

In the second book of Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Nemo comes close to revealing his Indian ancestry, though this is not obvious except in retrospect, in a scene where he saves a Ceylonese fisherman while on a pearl-diving expedition in the Gulf of Mannar.

In September 1867, Muir undertook a walk of about from Indiana to Florida, which he recounted in his book A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf.

The intervening book, Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years, mixes these themes, with events such as the Gulf War seen from Adrian's naive and frustrated point of view, as well as depictions of his experiences of unemployment and public spending cutbacks, both major political issues at the time.

* Jarhead ( book ), US Marine Anthony Swofford's memoir of the First Gulf War

In a 1966 paperback novel published by Pocket Books, very loosely based on the series, it was established in the story that Jeannie ( in the book, her real name is revealed as " Fawzia ") and her immediate family were genies living in Tehran hundreds of years before Tony found her bottle on an island in the Persian Gulf ( instead of the South Pacific, as depicted on TV ).

His latest book, A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers ( 2010 ), focuses on the Villa Cimbrone on the Gulf of Salerno and the Edwardian literary and society figures who lived there.

As late as 1867, John Muir — in his book A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf — used the word " Alleghanies " in referring to the southern Appalachians.

The appearance of a mellah in a Persian Gulf port, in the account of a journey to China purportedly by a " Jacob of Ancona " and supposed to be made in 1271, that was published by David Selbourne in 1997 as The City of Light, was identified as a clear anachronism in the critical reaction to the book that judged it a hoax.

The book takes place over a two-month period in late 1991 early 1992, with occasional flashbacks to the expulsion of the Arabs, the beginning of the Intifada, the Gulf War and other events in the more immediate past.

The book discusses a possible cause of the failure of the Gulf Stream: that the melting of the polar ice caps could drastically affect the salinity of the North Atlantic drift by dumping a large quantity of freshwater into the world's oceans.

The book went on to lay out thirteen different ways that the United States and its allies might fashion a " containment " strategy for Iraq, which offered some chance of preventing all-out civil war in Iraq from destabilizing the wider Persian Gulf region in the event that American efforts to stabilize the country failed.

Alexei Panshin, a Hugo Award-winning author, writes the following about " Gulf " in his nonfiction book Heinlein in Dimension:

The book contrasts the apparent reality of the computer game with Johnny's difficult home life and the television coverage of the Gulf War which, from Johnny's viewpoint, is just as displaced from reality as the ScreeWee Empire.

In 2008, AMO curated the exhibition ' Dubai Next ' at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, and was one of the editors on the book Al Manakh, which details the rapid transformation of the Gulf region.

Brinkley's visions also reportedly included the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the 1990 – 1991 Persian Gulf War, but there was no written account of these visions prior to his 1994 book.

In his book documenting the opening stages of the second Gulf War from his position embedded with the 1st Marine Reconnaissance Battalion, Evan Wright documents an incident during which, at night in the Iraqi desert, the marines observed the lights of a town approximately 40 kilometers away.

The book as well as the film features Shaw ’ s subsequent trips to Iraq around the events of 1991 Gulf War including his interviewing of the then Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his epic live coverage of the Baghdad air strike on 17 January 1991 with his CNN colleagues John Holliman and Peter Arnett, from where the name of Wiener ’ s work was taken.