The Threatening Storm: The United States and Iraq-The Crisis, the Strategy, and the Prospects after Saddam

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THE ARABS AND MILITARY EFFECTIVENESS

Pollack, Kenneth M. The Threatening Storm: The United States and Iraq-The Crisis, the Strategy, and the Prospects after Saddam. New York: Random House, 2002. 528pp. $25.95

Pollack, Kenneth M. Arabs at War. Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2002. 698pp. $49.95

The U.S. engagement in the Middle East has dramatically escalated due to the recent war in Iraq. These two books provide valuable historical background as well as cogent national security policy analysis that commands attention from military and other national ...

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