Download or read book Guardians of the Gulf written by Michael A Palmer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the nineteenth century through the 1991 war with Iraq, this study of America's expanding role in the Persian Gulf traces the development of American commercial interests in the region and the resulting growth of military and political involvement.