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Gulf military forces in an era of asymmetric wars - 1


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Éditeur : CSIS Date & Lieu : 2007, Washington
Préface : Pages : 600
Traduction : ISBN : 0–275–99250–0
Langue : AnglaisFormat : 155x235 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Ang.Thème : Politique

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Gulf military forces in an era of asymmetric wars - 1

Gulf military forces in an era of asymmetric wars - 1

Anthony H. Cordesman
Khalid R. Al-Rodhan

CSIS

For most of the modern era, the internal security structure of the Gulf has been dominated by a ‘‘four cornered’’ balancing act between Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the southern Gulf States.

Iran and Iraq have dominated the regional arms race, competing and sometimes fighting with each other. Saudi Arabia has sought to become a major regional military power in its own right, sometimes allied with the smaller Gulf States and sometimes divided from them by historical rivalries, Saudi ambitions, and various border disputes and claims. The southern Gulf States have sometimes been the target of Iranian and Iraqi ambitions, but have often concentrated on feuding with both Saudi Arabia and each other.

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Anthony H. Cordesman
Khalid R. Al-Rodhan

Gulf military forces in an era of asymmetric wars

CSIS

Center for Strategic and International Studies
Gulf military forces in an era of asymmetric wars
Volume 1
Anthony H. Cordesman
Khalid R. Al-Rodhan

Published in cooperation with the Center for Strategic and International Studies,
Washington, D.C.

Praeger Security International
Westport, Connecticut - London

Praeger Security International Advisory Board

Board Cochairs

Loch K. Johnson, Regents Professor of Public and International Affairs, School of Public
and International Affairs, University of Georgia (U.S.A.)

Paul Wilkinson, Professor of International Relations and Chairman of the Advisory Board,
Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St.
Andrews (U.K.)

Members
Eliot A. Cohen, Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies and Director,
Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies,
The Johns Hopkins University (U.S.A.)

Anthony H. Cordesman, Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy,
Center for Strategic and International Studies (U.S.A.)

The´re`se Delpech, Director of Strategic Affairs, Atomic Energy Commission,
and Senior Research Fellow, CERI (Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques), Paris (France)

Sir Michael Howard, former Professor of History of War, Oxford University,
and Professor of Military and Naval History, Yale University (U.K.)

Lieutenant General Claudia J. Kennedy, USA (Ret.), former Deputy Chief of
Staff for Intelligence, Headquarters, Department of the Army (U.S.A.)

Paul M. Kennedy, J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Director,
International Security Studies, Yale University (U.S.A.)

Robert J. O’Neill, former Chichele Professor of the History of War,
All Souls College, Oxford University (Australia)

Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development, Department of
Government and Politics, University of Maryland (U.S.A.)

Jusuf Wanandi, co-founder and member, Board of Trustees, Centre for Strategic and
International Studies (Indonesia)

Fareed Zakaria, Editor, Newsweek International (U.S.A.)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cordesman, Anthony H.
Gulf military forces in an era of asymmetric wars
Anthony H. Cordesman and Khalid R. Al-Rodhan.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0–275–99250–0 (set : alk. paper)
ISBN 0–275–99399–X (vol 1 : alk. paper)
ISBN 0–275–99400–7 (vol 2 : alk. paper)
1. Middle East-Armed Forces. 2. Asymmetric warfare-Middle East. 3. National security-Persian
Gulf States. 4. Persian Gulf States—Military relations. 5. Armed Forces. 6. Balance of power. 7.
Military readiness. I. Al-Rodhan, Khalid R. II. Center for Strategic and International Studies
(Washington, D.C.) III. Title.
UA832.C67028 2007
355’.0330536—dc22 2006031049

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available.
Copyright © 2007 by Center for Strategic and International Studies
All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced,
by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2006031049
ISBN: 0–275–99250–0 (set)
0–275–99399–X (vol. 1)
0–275–99400–7 (vol. 2)

First published in 2007

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Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National
Information Standards Organization (Z39.48–1984)
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1




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