¶ … Iraqi President Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and the Bush administration assembled a "winning" coalition of domestic and international supporters, and prevented opposing or "blocking" coalitions from forming. In several phases of coalition building, the Bush administration gained: access to bases in Saudi Arabia; financial support from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Japan and Germany; international legitimacy in the U.N. Security Council; a commitment from Israel not to respond if attacked; and domestic political support from the U.S. Congress. The Bush administration sequenced their coalition by starting with approaching the Arab coalition by recruiting the Saudis, who were arguably harder to recruit than other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
The Bush administration sequenced their coalition assembly since doing so would influence parties' assessments of the potential returns to be realized from joining. Parties would take into consideration the previous countries who had agreed to join and those who were still to be approached. Looking at those who had agreed (or disagreed) to become involved would more likely influence the decision of the candidate regarding whether or not to join too. This, in turn, would influence the success of the coalition.
Coalition-assembly can be done in an easy-to-hard way with more likely-to-agree figures approached first, or it can be done in the reverse order. The Bush administration chose the hard-to-easy approach. This hard-to-easy approach of the Bush administration was smart in that it persuaded the other, more potentially reluctant parties to also join the coaltion.
The U.S. effort was particularly vulnerable with the Arab parties since they had to oppose...
But the opportunity for a broader, regional conflict was still decades away in the Yom Kippur War and Six Day War. Today, the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction makes the region in a more significant condition for war. With Syria and Iran attempting to build nuclear facilities capable of enriching uranium, and receiving support from North Korea in this endeavor, the opportunity for devastating warfare is made all
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