The Gulf War Did Not Take Place

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The Gulf War Did Not Take Place

Author	Jean Baudrillard
Original title	La Guerre du Golfe n'a pas eu lieu
Translator	Paul Patton
Country	France
Language	French
Subject	Gulf War
Publication date	1991
Published in English	1995
Media type	Print

The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (French: La Guerre du Golfe n'a pas eu lieu) is a collection of three short essays by Jean Baudrillard published in the French newspaper Libération and British paper The Guardian between January and March 1991.

While the author acknowledges that the events and violence of what has been called the Gulf War took place, he asks if the events that took place were really as they were presented, and whether they could be called a war. The title is a reference to the play The Trojan War Will Not Take Place by Jean Giraudoux (in which characters attempt to prevent what the audience knows is inevitable).