Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 1997
Abstract
Operation Desert Storm was not a "patriotic triumph" for many U.S. citizens. Numerous Americans silently disapproved of the war, while others defiantly created a movement of Gulf War dissenters. This reenactment of the antiwar movement will be the focus of this paper. More specifically, the paper will trace the inception, growth and decline of this oppositional movement. Methodologically, this paper studies the movement's ebbs and flows through a content analysis of newspapers and an ethnographic case study. In the end, this study reveals that the slow and steady growth of the movement during the last months of 1990 was surpassed by a rash of movement activity around the January onset of the war. Yet, this flurry of activity around the middle of January became a two-week milestone as the protest size began to shrink in February and early March.
Recommended Citation
Swank, Eric, "The Ebbs and Flows of Gulf War Protests" (1997). Faculty Research at Morehead State University. 676.
https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/msu_faculty_research/676
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