VOL. XL

No. 38

22-September-1997

PUBLICATION RECEIVED

The Gulf Tanker War by Nadia El-Sayed El-Shazly. Published by Macmillan Press,Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, UK. Tel: (44-1256) 329242. Fax (44-1256)330688. Email: c.shepheard@macmillan.co.uk. 352 pp; Price 47.50.

In the 1984-88 tanker war, Iraq used its superior airpower as an instrument of navalwarfare in a strategy designed to end combat. Iraq hoped to weaken Iran's economy andinternationalize the war to force Iran to cease...