| The study aims to focus on an important stage of events between the two major camps or the two world powers and their impact on the Arab region in general and Iraq in particular. These two camps are the western camp, By tracking the positions of each of the two camps or the two forces, and have a lot on the course of political events or military for Iraq , Since both camps had a special position on each event, which began with the Cold War and the rivalries between them on the Arab region in general and Iraq in particular, from the middle of the twentieth century until the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, The coup of 1963, the coup of 1968, the Iraqi-Iranian war 1980_1988, the first Gulf War 1990_1991, and then the US occupation of Iraq in 2003 and the result of that war, which ignited the green land, where there was fierce competition between the parties, And the impact on the Arab region and Iraq in particular, which made the latter arena of conflict and a scene of competition between them, and once made with the United States and another with the Soviet Union, until the collapse of the Soviet Union and then the United States alone ruled the world and control of Iraq without rival, The Soviets and its policy in Iraq and the Arab region, because of the preoccupation of the Russians with their internal problems, but this decline did not last long but the Russians came back strongly after the US occupation of Iraq, and emerged rivalry between them again and this time stronger than the first of the modernity and development of military equipment And the world's high technology, which made the United States this time of fear of the Russian bear . |