America's First Clash with Iran, The Tanker War from 1987 to 1988
Year: 2008 Language: english Author: Lee Allen Zatarain Genre: History Publisher: Casemate, Philadelphia & Newbury Edition: First ISBN: 9781935149361 Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 516 Description: The author, Lee Allen Zatarain, reveals in this book a conflict that few recognized at the time, but which may have presaged further battles to come. He is based on the use of recently released Pentagon documents, firsthand interviews, and a determination to get to the truth. He starts with the case of USS Stark, which while calmly sailing the waters of the Persian Gulf in May 1987, was blown apart by two Exocet missiles fired from an Iraqi jet fighter. A fifth of the ship’s crew was killed and many others horribly burned or wounded. This event jumpstarted one of the most mysterious conflicts in American history: “The Tanker War,” waged against Iran for control of the Persian Gulf, the main points of which are as follows: This quasi-war took place at the climax of the mammoth Iran-Iraq War during the Reagan administration. Losing on the battlefield, Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran had decided to close the Persian Gulf against shipping from Iraq’s oil-rich backers, the emirate of Kuwait. The Kuwaitis appealed for help and America sent a fleet to the Gulf, raising the Stars and Stripes over Kuwait’s commercial tankers. The result was a free-for-all, as the Iranians laid mines throughout the narrow passage and launched attack boats against both tankers and US warships. The sixth largest ship in the world, the tanker Bridgeton, hit an Iranian mine and flooded. The US Navy fought its largest surface battle since World War II against the Ayatollah’s assault boats. Meanwhile, US Navy Seals arrived in the Gulf, setting up shop aboard two mobile platforms. As Saddam Hussein, who had instigated the conflict, looked on, Iranian gunners fired shore-based Silkworm missiles against US forces, actions which, if made known at the time, would have required the US Congress to declare war against Iran. In July 1988, nervous sailors aboard the cruiser USS Vincennes shot an Iranian airliner out of the sky, killing 300 civilians. This event came one month before the end of the war, and may have been the final straw that influenced the Ayatollah to finally drink from his “poisoned chalice.” All in all, it is a very interesting book.
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America's First Clash with Iran, The Tanker War from 1987 to 1988
Year: 2008
Language: english
Author: Lee Allen Zatarain
Genre: History
Publisher: Casemate, Philadelphia & Newbury
Edition: First
ISBN: 9781935149361
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 516
Description: The author, Lee Allen Zatarain, reveals in this book a conflict that few recognized at the time, but which may have presaged further battles to come. He is based on the use of recently released Pentagon documents, firsthand interviews, and a determination to get to the truth.
He starts with the case of USS Stark, which while calmly sailing the waters of the Persian Gulf in May 1987, was blown apart by two Exocet missiles fired from an Iraqi jet fighter. A fifth of the ship’s crew was killed and many others horribly burned or wounded.
This event jumpstarted one of the most mysterious conflicts in American history: “The Tanker War,” waged against Iran for control of the Persian Gulf, the main points of which are as follows:
This quasi-war took place at the climax of the mammoth Iran-Iraq War during the Reagan administration. Losing on the battlefield, Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran had decided to close the Persian Gulf against shipping from Iraq’s oil-rich backers, the emirate of Kuwait. The Kuwaitis appealed for help and America sent a fleet to the Gulf, raising the Stars and Stripes over Kuwait’s commercial tankers.
The result was a free-for-all, as the Iranians laid mines throughout the narrow passage and launched attack boats against both tankers and US warships. The sixth largest ship in the world, the tanker Bridgeton, hit an Iranian mine and flooded. The US Navy fought its largest surface battle since World War II against the Ayatollah’s assault boats. Meanwhile, US Navy Seals arrived in the Gulf, setting up shop aboard two mobile platforms. As Saddam Hussein, who had instigated the conflict, looked on, Iranian gunners fired shore-based Silkworm missiles against US forces, actions which, if made known at the time, would have required the US Congress to declare war against Iran.
In July 1988, nervous sailors aboard the cruiser USS Vincennes shot an Iranian airliner out of the sky, killing 300 civilians. This event came one month before the end of the war, and may have been the final straw that influenced the Ayatollah to finally drink from his “poisoned chalice.”
All in all, it is a very interesting book.
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