Category: Iraq War

The Iraq War, also known as the Second Persian Gulf War, spanned from 2003 to 2011 and is one of the longest, largest, and most costly uses of the United States armed forces since the Vietnam War (Lieberfeld, 2005). A shallow perception of the war would discern that its origins are rather conventional, however, upon…

The 1980–1988 Iran – Iraq War affected huge costs as each side sustained hundreds of casualties. Furthermore, there was an atmosphere of eco-destruction devastation surrounded by war. The weapons that continued the eight-year war continue both countries even today. One of the deepest chapters of the war was Iraq’s use of chemical weapons by both…