Saddam: His strategy for survival

Saddam: His strategy for survival

DANIEL NEEP


BEFORE the beginning of the war in Iraq, much analysis of the likely course of events tended to fall into one of two categories.

Optimists thought that US military superiority would cause the near-instantaneous collapse of the Iraqi regime, built on a brittle edifice of terror and undermined by 12 years of devastating sanctions and isolation from the international community. . . .

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