Desert Warrior

Outline

Desert Warrior (1995) is Prince Khaled bin Sultan’s personal account of the 1991 Gulf War, in which he served as commander of the Joint Forces. Written with the journalist Patrick Seale, it describes the planning of the campaign to liberate Kuwait, the coordination between Arab and Western coalition forces, and the difficult decisions faced by military leaders. The book offers a rare Arab perspective on one of the major conflicts of the late twentieth century.

• Prince Khaled bin Sultan tells the 1991 Gulf War from the seat of the commander of the Joint Forces.
• The book describes how the campaign to liberate Kuwait was planned.
• Arab and Western coalition forces had to be coordinated, and the book shows how that worked from the inside.
• Military leaders faced difficult decisions, and the author gives his own account of them.
• It offers a rare Arab perspective on one of the major conflicts of the late twentieth century.

Khaled bin Sultan is a Saudi prince and retired military commander, the son of the late Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz. He commanded the Joint Forces during the 1991 Gulf War and later served as Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Minister of Defense.