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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2002
Subject:
History, Military History, Social sciences, Warfare and Defence
Length:
40 words

Iraqi term for the Persian Gulf War (1991). Saddam Hussein claimed the fight for Kuwait would be the “mother of all battles” (in Arabic, ...

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