Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Contemporary World Politics: US Hegemony in World Politics

Question:

In the year 2003, the U.S.A launched its invasion of Iraq under which of the following code name?

Options:

Operation Enduring freedom

Operation Desert Storm

Operation Iraqi Revolution

Operation Iraqi Freedom

Correct Answer:

Operation Iraqi Freedom

Explanation:

On 19 March 2003, the US launched its invasion of Iraq under the codename ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’. More than forty other countries joined in the US-led ‘coalition of the willing’ after the UN refused to give its mandate to the invasion. The ostensible purpose of the invasion was to prevent Iraq from developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Since no evidence of WMD has been unearthed in Iraq, it is speculated that the invasion was motivated by other objectives, such as controlling Iraqi oilfields and installing a regime friendly to the US.