10 エピソード
1『A Kingdom Of Oil』
The Middle East, as we know it today, and many of the countries we now recognize in that region, did not exist when the First World War began in 1914This is the story of the Middle East from the Kingdom of Persia through the Ottoman Empire and how after the First World War Great Britain re-drew the map of the region, along with others of the Allied Powers.
2『A Slaughter In The Desert』
The Iran-Iraq War began in September 1980. Lasting eight years made it the 20th century's longest conventional war. It followed a long history of border disputes and fears that the Iranian Revolution would inspire insurgency among Iraq's Shia majority.
3『The Lost Province』
The reasons behind the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq are examined beyond Iraq's accusation of Kuwait stealing oil through slant drilling.
4『Building A Shield』
To wage war against Saddam's forces in Kuwait the U.S built the largest military alliance since World War II. The majority of the Coalition's military forces were from the U.S., with Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and Egypt as leading contributors.
5『Strike』
The Air campaign of the 1991 Gulf War began with extensive aerial bombing to shape the battlefield. The aerial strike force was made up of over 2,250 combat aircraft which included 1,800 U.S. aircraft with over 100,000 sorties flown.
6『A Perfect Storm』
This is the end around attack by massive armor formations the crushed Saddam's Republican Guard in record time.
7『Ground Zero』
Veterans recount where they were on September 11th.
8『Weapons Of Mass Destruction』
Did he or did he not have weapons of mass destruction.?
9『Armour In Babylon』
The build up for Operation Iraqi Freedom and the race to Bagdad.
