The Arab World and Western Intelligence: Analysing the Middle East, 1956-1981

ISBN-13: 9781474444408 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 272 str.

Dina Rezk

Opis

Have Western intelligence experts fundamentally failed to understand the dynamics, leaders and culture of the Middle East? Using the most recently declassified documents, interviews and Arabic sources, the book examines seminal case studies to explore how theintelligence agencies in the world have been so notoriously caught off-guard.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Orientalism and Analysis; 2. Formation of the United Arab Republic; 3. Revolution in Iraq; 4. Syrian Secession; 5. Yemeni Civil War; 6. The Six-Day War; 7. The War of Attrition; 8. First Impressions of Sadat; 9. The Yom Kippur War; 10. The Aftermath of Victory; Conclusion.