Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991

ISBN-13: 9780803287839 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 717 str.

Kenneth M. Pollack; Mark Grimsley; Peter Maslowski

Opis

Kenneth M. Pollack, formerly a Persian Gulf military analyst at the CIA and Director for Persian Gulf Affairs at the National Security Council, describes and analyzes themilitary history of the six key Arab states Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Syria during the post World War II era. He shows in detail how each Arab military grew and learned from its own experiences in response to the specific objectives set for it and within often constrained political, economic, and social circumstances. This first-ever overview of the modern Arab approach to warfare provides a better understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the Arab militaries, some of which are the United States most likely adversaries, and some of which are our most important allies."

O autorze

Kenneth M. Pollack served from 1995 to 1996 and from 1999 to 2001, as director for Gulf affairs at the National Security Council, where he was the principal working-level official responsible for implementation of U.S. policy toward Iraq. Prior to his time in the Clinton administration, he spent seven years in the CIA as a Persian Gulf military analyst. He is also the author of Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991. He is a graduate of Yale University and received a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and is director of research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.