Invasion is a brief and inadequate historical review focusing on events leading to invasion. AIR WAR 49min Details of air war and high tech weapons. Schwartzkopf summarizes strategical goals as differentiated from Vietnam. Then a careful itemization and explanation of the high-tech arsenal. The first six minutes repeats clips already reviewed in part 1 and 2.
War is the mother of unpredictables.
The troubled new situations include the challenge of rebuilding devastated Kuwait, capping flaming oil wells, dealing with demands of democratic reforms. A crippled Iraq faces revolutions in both the south and from the Kurds, yet despite the tales of torture and horrors, Saddam retains both popularity and some semblance of an army. With more narration than in the other videos, Shaw offers pieces of the jigsaw personality of Saddam Hussein and a brief biographical overview. Filmed in 1992, this study of Islamic movements in the Gaza Strip includes interviews with some of the Hamas leaders expelled in 1992 as well as a clear definition of the role of women. The story of two brothers, one a supporter of the PLO's Fatah and the other favoring the Hamas movement, adds personalization.