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Primary Sources - Gulf Wars

Commercial Sources

Archives Unbound (Gale)
Digital collections for historical documents in the areas of: PsyOps, Afghanistan, China, Japan, Vietnam, Civil War, Persian Gulf War, Latin America, Radicalism, Czechoslovakia, Turkey and more.
Cold War Eastern Europe (Taylor & Francis)
Files from the political departments of the U.K. Foreign Office responsible for dealing with and reporting on the Soviet Union and the socialist states of Eastern Europe during the Cold War.
Digital National Security Archive (1945-current) (ProQuest)
Declassified, primary government documents. US foreign and military policy, post World War II.
ProQuest History Vault (ProQuest)
Primary source materials related to US planning and policies with an emphasis on WWII, Vietnam and intelligence
Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War: Intelligence, Strategy and Diplomacy (Taylor & Francis)
British government secret intelligence and foreign policy files from 1873 to 1953, with the majority of files dating from the 1930s and 1940s.
US Declassified Documents Online (Gale)
Government documents, domestic & foreign policies, correspondence & memoranda, minutes of cabinet meetings, technical studies, national security policy statements & intelligence reports.

First Persian Gulf War

Iran-Iraq War
Collection of Iraqi documents translated and made available by the Conflict Records Research Center about the 1980 to 1988 [Wilson Center for Digital Archives]

Iraq War Sources

CENTCOM IRAQ Papers
Iraqi Perspectives Project - Saddam and Terrorism
Saddam Hussein's Iraq
Records from Saddam Hussein’s regime released by the Conflict Records Research Center.
The U.S. Army in the Iraq War – Volume 1: Invasion – Insurgency – Civil War, 2003-2006
The U.S. Army in the Iraq War — Volume 2: Surge and Withdrawal, 2007-2011