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A King Whose Head Is Now in a Basket

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“American Flag F-117 Nighthawks” by U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Master Sgt. Kim Frey; Licensed under Public Domain via Commons.

My latest at the National Interest takes a look a decapitation efforts against the Hussein regime in 1991:

In the early days of the air campaign of the 1991 Gulf War, the United States undertook a concerted effort to track and strike Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The effort was predicated on the belief that eliminating Saddam Hussein would have two effects; it would throw the Iraqi military hierarchy into chaos, and it would make the surviving Iraqi leadership more amenable to a negotiated solution.

The effort to kill Hussein was only one episode in the U.S. pursuit of “decapitation” as a politico-military strategy. In the post-Cold War era, the United States has faced a variety of tyrants and terrorists. U.S. leaders reasoned that steps to crush the head of the snake might make it unnecessary to kill the entire body, thus sparing much destruction and civilian death.

 

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