Arabs at war : military effectiveness, 1948-1991
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 the military history of the six key Arab states--Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Syria--during the post-World War II era. This is the first time that the complete postwar histories of virtually all of these countries have been recorded in unclassified form. In particular Pollack focuses on the Arab armies themselves, helping to illuminate the persistent problems they encountered on the battlefield. 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
Print Book, English, ©2002
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, ©2002
Military history
xv, 698 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
9780803237339, 9780803287839, 0803237332, 0803287836
49225708
Understanding modern Arab military effectiveness
Egypt
Iraq
Jordan
Libya
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Conclusions and lessons
"A Council on Foreign Relations book."
Based in part on the author's dissertation (doctoral--MIT, 1996) under the title: The influence of Arab culture on Arab military effectiveness, 1948-1991