This comprehensive analysis documents the military forces in each Middle Eastern country at the end of the Cold War. Cordesman discusses security developments and provides a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the strength and effectiveness of every army, navy, air force, and air defence force in the region. He further assesses post-Cold War modernization and expansions plans and each country’s internal security situations, the role the military plays in its government and internal tensions and civil wars. Special attention is paid to Iran and Iraq and the author examines the military changes in both countries as responses to the Iran-Iraq and the First Gulf War.After the Storm is unique in combining the evaluation of conventional forces with assessments of developments in biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and provides a coherent picture of the state of the military in the Middle East in the early 1990s. Summary tables and charts present keys statistics for the region, formatted to allow quick country by country comparisons.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-10-06
Mått:164 x 238 x 52 mm
Vikt:1 380 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic
Antal sidor:832
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781474292573

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Anthony H. Cordesman holds the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC, USA. He formerly served as national security assistant to Senator John McCain of the Senate Armed Services Committee, as director of intelligence assessment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and as civilian assistant to the deputy secretary of defense.

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1. Weighing the Military Balance in the Middle EastThe Casualty EffectThe Burden of Military ExpendituresTrends in Military ManpowerEquipment Numbers: The Issue of QuantityForce Quality and Continuing Weaknesses in Middle Eastern Forces2. Arms Transfers to the Middle EastThe Total Flow of Arms to Individual Middle Eastern CountriesThe Role of Arms SuppliersArms Costs versus Flows of WeaponsSupplier Relationships with Individual Middle Eastern StatesThe Role of Military Advisors3. Trends in the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass DestructionThe Impact of Long Range Missile SystemsThe Impact of Chemical WeaponsThe Impact of Biological WeaponsThe Impact of Nuclear WeaponsThe Technology and Practice of Proliferation4. Trends in the Military Balance and Arms Sales in North AfricaPatterns in Arms Imports and Military Advisory EffortsMauritaniaMoroccoAlgeriaLibyaTunisia5. Trends in the Military Balance and Arms Sales in the Arab-Israeli Confrontation StatesThe Economic, Demographic, and Military Forces Affecting the Arab-Israeli BalanceIsraelSyriaJordanLebanonPalestinian ForcesEgypt6. Trends in the Military Balance and Arms Sales in the Northern Gulf StatesThe Impact of Iran and Iraq on the Regional Military BalanceIranIraq7. Trends in the Military Balance and Arms Sales in the Southern Gulf StatesThe Gulf Cooperation Council and Efforts at Collective SecuritySaudi ArabiaKuwaitBahrainQatarUAEOman8. Trends in the Military Balance and Arms Sales in the Red Sea and the HornYemenSudanEthiopiaDjiboutiSomalia9. Strategic Interests, Arms Control, and Regional Stability: Conflict or Synergy?The Problem of Peace NegotiationsThe Problem of Arms ControlThe Problem of Military Build-upsThe Rule of Law and the Illusion of DemocracySecurity Problems of the Middle East and Southwest Asia: A Selected Annotated BibliographyIndex