Table of Contents

The Birth of the U.S. Oil Industry and Its Movement Overseas A Handful of Companies Gain Control of the Industry The Fall of Mosadeq and the triumph of the Oil Cartel in the U.S. The OPEC Revolution and the Clashes between Iraq and the Cartel Second and Third Shocks and the 1987 Reflagging Iran-Contra and Iraq: The Media Campaign That Took America to War

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Challenges many assumptions about the causes of the Gulf War, and argues that it resulted from a crisis in the control of the world's oil supply.

About the Author

STEPHEN PELLETIERE is a Professor of National Security Affairs at the J.S. Army War College._He is a specialist in Middle East politics. As an intelligence officer from 1982, he has covered the Iran-Iraq War and subsequent Gulf conflict. Prior to that, he was a Professor of Political Science and a foreign correspondent in the Middle East. He has written several books on the Middle East, including The Iran-Iraq War--Chaos in a Vacuum (Praeger, 1992).

Reviews

"I have known Dr. Stephen Pelletiere for many years. I was the senior official in the Department of Defense responsible for the intelligence business of the Armed Forces of the United States in that region of the world. Dr. Pelletiere is by far the most gifted and accomplished analyst of Iraqi events and history whom I have ever met. His grasp of the underlying causes of the tortured events in the Northern Gulf which led to the Gulf War is superb."-Walter Lang, Defense Intelligence Officer for the Middle East, South Asia, and Terrorism (1984-94)

?[a] fascinating and strange history of global oil politics. Stephen Pelletiere, a professor at the US Army War College, does a wonderful job of destroying the myths of the free market system, even though that is probably not his primary intention. The author presents a very casual view of some of the bloodiest and most evil deeds-deeds committed by some of the most powerful corporations and governments in the world....[c]omprehensively and engagingly written.?-Futures

?Iraq and the International Oil System is an interesting contribution to the growing literature on the origins of the Gulf War...?-The Journal of Military History

?The book adds significantly to the literature on both the international oil system and the Gulf War...There is much in the book to commend...Those willing to take it on will learn much.?-The International History Review

"Ýa¨ fascinating and strange history of global oil politics. Stephen Pelletiere, a professor at the US Army War College, does a wonderful job of destroying the myths of the free market system, even though that is probably not his primary intention. The author presents a very casual view of some of the bloodiest and most evil deeds-deeds committed by some of the most powerful corporations and governments in the world....Ýc¨omprehensively and engagingly written."-Futures

"Iraq and the International Oil System is an interesting contribution to the growing literature on the origins of the Gulf War..."-The Journal of Military History

"The book adds significantly to the literature on both the international oil system and the Gulf War...There is much in the book to commend...Those willing to take it on will learn much."-The International History Review

"[a] fascinating and strange history of global oil politics. Stephen Pelletiere, a professor at the US Army War College, does a wonderful job of destroying the myths of the free market system, even though that is probably not his primary intention. The author presents a very casual view of some of the bloodiest and most evil deeds-deeds committed by some of the most powerful corporations and governments in the world....[c]omprehensively and engagingly written."-Futures