''A World Transformed'' is a 1998 book () by former
U.S. President George H. W. Bush and
Brent Scowcroft
Brent Scowcroft (; March 19, 1925August 6, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer who was a two-time United States National Security Advisor, first under U.S. President Gerald Ford and then under George H. W. Bush. He served as Military Assi ...
, Bush's
national security advisor A national security advisor serves as the chief advisor to a national government on matters of security. The advisor is not usually a member of the government's cabinet but is usually a member of various military or security councils.
National sec ...
, documenting foreign relations during the Bush administration.
They explained in 1998 why they failed to go to
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...
and remove
Saddam Hussein's government from power in 1991 during the
Gulf War:
[George H.W. Bush, and Brent Scowcroft. "Why we didn't remove Saddam." '' Time'' (1998).]
Notes
Further reading
*
* Sparrow, Bartholomew H. "Realism's Practitioner: Brent Scowcroft and the Making of the New World Order, 1989–1993." ''Diplomatic History'' 34.1 (2010): 141–175
online* Sparrow, Bartholomew. ''The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security'' (2015).
External links
''Booknotes'' interview with Bush and Scowcroft on ''A World Transformed'', October 4, 1998.
1998 non-fiction books
Political books
Books by George H. W. Bush
Alfred A. Knopf books
Books about George H. W. Bush
Gulf War books
Books written by presidents of the United States
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