g Hussein, also claim that the United States was deliberating trying to kill thousands of innocent civilians by bombing residences. The United States claims the bombing of residences was down in error.Iraq’s military Strategy was based upon the approach of demoralizing the enemy in Cumulative ways. One highly effective approach used was, playing on the media to present a twisted view of events, and also, a true account of twisted events. For example, the world watched from their televisions as civilians were burned and killed in Falluja as “...family members stood by helplessly...” (Sciolino, 255). Elaine Sciolino furthers revels in her book The Outlaw State, that the horror of war was being viewed for the first time by the masses of the world. War had not been so personal before the Gulf Crisis.The Gulf Crisis also brought home the issue of genocide. Hussein was killing innocent Kurds as we watched. Michael R. Gordon, and General Bernard E. Trainor, explored genocide in their book, The Generals’ War, stating, “Like the Kurds to the north, the Shiites had suffered decades of oppression at the hands of Baghdad” because “The Baghdad regime viewed the Shiites... as a potential internal threat to be closely monitored by the secret police” (434). This is another example of cumulative strategy. The genocide was seen as a powerful show of strength to the Kuwait nation, as they feared for their own lives. Sensationalism of the genocide and horrors of war failed Hussein as a Military Strategy, as it reinforced efforts to end the Gulf Crisis. Scud missile strikes were, however, a great propaganda tool, and so were threats of chemical weaponry. The most feared weapon was biological arms. U.S. News and World Report’s Nicholas Horrock classified biological warfare as the poor man’s nukes, stating, ...biologicals are cheaper and easier to make than nuclear or chemical weapons, an...
