Persian Gulf War, conflict (1990–91) triggered by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait with the apparent aim of acquiring its large oil reserves, canceling a large debt owed to Kuwait, and expanding Iraqi regional power. A U.S.-led invasion ended Iraq’s occupati
aDuring the Persian Gulf War, for instance, the SWL could listen to the differing interpretations given by the Voice of America and Radio Baghdad, then listen to Kol Israel and Radio Damascus for variety, and perhaps finish with the BBC or Swiss Radio International for a more neutral ...
PAUL RAHE HAS WRITTEN AN IMPORTANT new history of war and strategy in the ancient Greek world, examining the contest between the Spartans and the Persian Empire. The war was fought for the highest stakes: independence of the Greek world from Persian domination. This is Sparta Al-Riyadh newspape...
Xerxes took advantage of this betrayal and sent part of his army along this path, led by Ephialtes himself. After reaching the other side, the Persians attacked and destroyed a portion of the Greek army. This forced Leonidas to call a war council, at which it was decided that retreating wa...
The Persian WarsIn 519 BC Darius I ascended the throne of the expanding empire ofPersia. A group of people called the Ionians, lived along the coast of AsiaMinor. They were under Persian rule, having been conquered by EmperorCyrus (ruled 550-530 BC), a..
16–19 October 1813. Writing of Napoleon’s defeat in this encounter by a Coalition of Austrian, Prussian, Swedish and Russian forces, Wilson (1817: 45) noted that, ‘The…battles comprised under the name of the battle of Leipzig, were the most memorable in the history of the war, from...
Anticolonialism, Revolutionary Nationalism, and Cold War: Anglo-American Relations in the Persian Gulf Region, 1950–1956 On January 25, 1954, the British ambassador to Washington, Sir Roger Makins, wrote to the foreign secretary, Selwyn Lloyd: "There is on our side a very understandable ...
justifies by the figure of 60 days his contention that the Skythian campaign was invented by Herodotos in order to have a pretext for including in his work an account of the geography of Skythia. Herodotos would be the kind of historian who would invent an entire war for the sake of achi...
The Greco-Persian War (500 B.C.- 448 B.C.) was a series of battles fought between the Greek city-states and the Persian Empire. The Persian Empire was much larger than the small Greek city-states and tried to conquer them several times during the decades of the Greco-Persian War. The...
ich war ja kein Jude.Als sie mich holten,gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte.(美国波士顿犹太人屠杀纪念碑碑文) —— 德文版)在德国,起初他们追杀共产主义者,我没有说话,因为我不是共产主义者;接着他们追杀犹太人,我没有说话,因为我不是犹太人;后来他们追...