Conflict and insurgency in the contemporary Middle East
By: edited by Barry Rubin.
Contributors: Rubin, Barry M.
Series: Middle Eastern military studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415457583; 9780203881873
Subjects: Middle East -- History -- 1979-; Middle East -- History, Military -- 20th century; Middle East -- History, Military -- 21st century; Insurgency -- Middle East -- History -- 20th century; Insurgency -- Middle East -- History -- 21st century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What do Middle Eastern armies do? / Barry Rubin; title: Why Arab armies lose wars but defeat insurgencies / Norvell B. DeAtkine; title: The Iran-Iraq War : will without means / Joana Dodds and Benjamin Wilson; title: The lessons of the jihadist insurgency in Saudi Arabia / Hassan Mneimneh; title: Egypt's civil war / Barry Rubin; title: Terrorism as a military factor : the Israeli-Palestinian peace process era, 1993-2000 / Boaz Ganor; title: Lebanon 2006 : unfinished war / Jonathan Spyer; title: Lebanon's militia wars / Antoine Badran; title: The Soviet-Afghan War : a superpower mired in the mountains / Lester Grau; title: The Morocco-polisario War for western Sahara, 1975-1991 / Jacob Mundy; title: Islamism and insurgency in post-independence Algeria / Yahia Zoubir; title: Iraq and U.S. military doctrine / William McCallister; title: Innovation and war : the U.S. military and the Iraq insurgency / James Russell.