This book surveys the main conflicts and insurgencies in recent Middle East history, focusing mainly on the period since the 1980s and taking a historical-analytical approach.
List of illustrations
p. vii
Notes on contributors
p. viii
Introduction
p. 1
What do Middle Eastern armies do?
p. 8
The Arab as insurgent and counterinsurgent
p. 24
The Iran-Iraq war: will without means
p. 46
The lessons of the jihadist insurgency in Saudi Arabia
p. 71
Egypt's civil war
p. 83
Terrorism as a military factor: the Israeli-Palestinian peace process era, 1993-2000
p. 102
Lebanon 2006: unfinished war
p. 145
Lebanon's militia wars
p. 161
The Soviet-Afghan war: a superpower mired in the mountains
p. 187
The Morocco-Polisario war for Western Sahara, 1975-1991
p. 209
Islamism and insurgency in post-independence Algeria
p. 232
The Iraq insurgency
p. 255
Innovation and war: the U.S. military and the Iraq insurgency
p. 266
Index
p. 283
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