Excerpt from Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 91: April, 1991 The trouble with the world today is that things happen too fast. That can hurt sales, especially if you're marketing a Persian Gulf war. No sooner did President George Bush give the green flag signaling the start of Operation Desert Storm than he waved the checkered flag. Newspapers counted Operation Desert Storm in days, and the us. Beat the record for big war won in the least amount of days. Grenada and Panama did not qualify. Now, manufacturers and retailers are stuck with millions of yards of yel low ribbon and lots of other jingoistic products, from lapel pins to patriotic baby bibs to tee shirts to official Opera tion Desert Storm coffee mugs. Book publishers, too, responded to the call to capitalize on the situation. It's amazing how fast those presses can run. Books on the history of Islam, primers on the Middle East, a guide to weapons and strategies, all materialized in the days following President Bush's declaration on January 16. Now the troops are returning home, and warehouses are filled with remaindered books. Look for all the Gulf war ephemera in the dis counted bin at your local flea market. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.