Table of Contents

Introduction Defining the Middle East Military Balance The Changing Face of the Middle East Military Balance "The Most Militarized Area in the World": Regional Military Expenditures, Arms Transfers, and Manpower Resources North Africa and the Maghreb The Arab-Israel States The Gulf Military Balance and Force Developments in the Northern Gulf Force Developments in the Southern Gulf Gulf Conventional Military Forces Terrorist and Extremist Movements Proliferation and Weapons of Mass Destruction Other Books by Anthony H. Cordesman

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An invaluable ready resource on the military balance in a region that has become critical to world peace, by the expert on the topic.

About the Author

Anthony Cordesman is Senior Fellow and holds the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is an analyst for ABC News and a frequent commentator on National Public Radio. He is the author of numerous books on security issues and has served in a number of senior positions in the US government.

Reviews

?[S]hould be on every Middle East expert's bookshelf....Tony Cordesman is clearly the pre-eminent American expert on military development in the region.?-Middle East Journal

?Anthony H. Cordesman's The Military Balance in the Middle East is a useful, readable reference that presents a factual layout of the quantitative and qualitative trends in the military balance from the most heavily armed region in the world....He provides the reader with a good knowledge base on which to build expertise in a specific country or subregion. Given the ongoing operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other potential flashpoints (Syria and Iran), the chapters on terrorist and extremist movements and proliferation of WMD are the most useful to military readers. Serious students of the Middle East should have this reference.?-Military Review

"ÝS¨hould be on every Middle East expert's bookshelf....Tony Cordesman is clearly the pre-eminent American expert on military development in the region."-Middle East Journal

"[S]hould be on every Middle East expert's bookshelf....Tony Cordesman is clearly the pre-eminent American expert on military development in the region."-Middle East Journal

"Anthony H. Cordesman's The Military Balance in the Middle East is a useful, readable reference that presents a factual layout of the quantitative and qualitative trends in the military balance from the most heavily armed region in the world....He provides the reader with a good knowledge base on which to build expertise in a specific country or subregion. Given the ongoing operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other potential flashpoints (Syria and Iran), the chapters on terrorist and extremist movements and proliferation of WMD are the most useful to military readers. Serious students of the Middle East should have this reference."-Military Review