Selection of papers presented at an international conference held at Boston University in collaboration with BESA Center.

Arms transfers to Iran and Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88 and the origins of the Gulf War / Michael T. Klare -- The Gulf War as Arab civil war / F. Gregory Gause -- The Arab world: ten years after the Gulf War / Gabriel Ben-Dor -- Israel and the Gulf War / Efraim Inbar -- The (non-)legacy of the 1991 Gulf War: an Israeli perspective / Stuart A. Cohen -- A squandered opportunity? the decision to end the Gulf War / Thomas G. Mahnken -- 'Splendid little war': America's Persian Gulf adventure ten years on / Andrew J. Bacevich -- The Middle East and the Gulf War: a decade later / Efraim Karsh.