iraq-kuwait crisis, 1990-1991

The author, now a colonel in the U.S. Army, describes his experiences in 1990 after traveling from his post in Saudi Arabia to Kuwait City for a weekend visit only to find himself in the middle of the Gulf War and a guest at the hotel that quickly became Iraqi military headquarters.

An in-depth look at the events leading up to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the relationship of Iraq with the United States and other western nations.

Provides information about the Kuwaiti oil fires set by the Iraqi army as it retreated at the end of the Golf War in 1991, focusing on the efforts to put the fires out and the environmental damage that resulted.

Just before the 1991 Gulf War begins, sixteen-year-old Border Baker moves to a small town with his father, a Vietnam War draft resister.

Provides information about the Kuwaiti oil fires set by the Iraqi army as it retreated at the end of the Gulf War in 1991, focusing on the efforts to put the fires out and the environmental damage that resulted.