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Year:: 2023
Contributor:: Del Terzo, David (creator); Pucci, Joseph (thesis advisor); Reed, Joseph (reader); Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Punic wars; Ancient Rome; Carthage; Masinissa, King of Numidia, approximately 240 B.C.-148 B.C.; Cato the Elder; Treaty of 201; Polybius; Livy; Appian; Plutarch; War on Terrorism (2001-2009); Iraq War (2003-2011); Weapons of mass destruction; Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-; Rumsfeld, Donald, 1932-2021; Cheney, Richard B.; Paul Wolfowitz; Powell, Colin L.; Rice, Condoleezza, 1954-; Manufacturing war; Hussein, Saddam, 1937-2006
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26300/6j2b-qb66

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Abstract:: War-mongering politicians. Dispatched weapons inspectors. Faulty intelligence dossiers exaggerating threats. Domestic deliberations surrounding the necessity for war. Previous and complicated histories of combat. If one were asked to consider these characteristics in totality and name an event where each of these unique attributes was present, one recent episode would surely jump to mind: the 2003 U.S. Invasion of Iraq. Such an answer is legitimate, but not alone in truth. For, 2150 years earlier, all of these characteristics were true in another conflict: the Third Punic War. In my thesis, I compare these two events—a conflict of antiquity and a conflict of modernity—and examine how in both one party manufactured the case for war.
Notes:: Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2023; Concentration: Classics

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Del Terzo, David, "'Delenda est Carthago [et Iraq]:” A Comparison of the Third Punic War and the 2003 U.S. Invasion of Iraq and Their Manufacturing of the Case For War" (2023). Classics Theses and Dissertations. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.26300/6j2b-qb66

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"Delenda est Carthago [et Iraq]:” A Comparison of the Third Punic War and the 2003 U.S. Invasion of Iraq and Their Manufacturing of the Case For War