Comprised of three essays written by Baudrillard in the lead-up to,
during, and after the military clash in the Gulf in 1992, this book is a
penetrating and provocative analysis of the unfolding drama using the
author's well-known concepts of simulation and the hyperreal. Paul
Patton's introduction surveying the debate aroused by the conflict
argues that Baudrillard, more than any other critic of the events,
correctly identified the political stakes involved in the gestation of
the New World Order.