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A 5-page paper that examines the 1987 U.S. naval military operation coded Operation Earnest Will, an operation designed to assist Kuwaiti oil tankers across the war-torn Persian Gulf under the protection of the American flag. Discussed are the United States' security interests in the Persian Gulf, the reasons it was felt these interests were put at risk by Kuwaiti difficulties in the area, and the accomplishments and shortcomings of Operation Earnest Will. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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interests were put at risk by Kuwaiti difficulties in the area, and the accomplishments and shortcomings of Operation Earnest Will. Bibliography lists 3 sources. LCIntent.doc Hostile Intent
- Operation Earnest Will Written by Linda Canada 07/2000 Please I. The Launch of Operation
Earnest Will The summer sun had shown no signs of mercy as it beat down relentlessly on the gulf of Oman throughout the day of June 21, 1987, shimmering across
the surface of the clear, deep blue gulf waters and raising temperatures to a sweltering high of one hundred and twenty degrees. As it set that hot, humid evening,
its rays glinted off of rows and rows of tanker ships that sat stationary among the waves and stretching into the horizon as far as the eye could detect.
Above each stern, the flag of Kuwait billowed gently in the evening gulf breeze (Baskin, 1987). As darkness approached and temperatures cooled to the average overnight low of one hundred
degrees, however, the colors of Kuwait were lowered on two of the tankers that idled in Omans gulf. Above the stern of each a new flag was raised, a
flag patterned in stars and stripes and printed in the colors red, white and blue. These new flags proclaimed that each tanker had been reregistered in America and proclaimed
that each was under the official protection of the United States Navy. These new flags were the tankers tickets across the five-hundred mile stretch of perilous Persian Gulf waters
to the Kuwaiti oil terminal of Al-Ahmadi (Baskin, 1987). As the midnight hour passed and the calendar turned to June 22, both tankers
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