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Product Description: Cordesman (strategy, Center for Strategic Studies) identifies lessons that the US government can use to enhance its steamroller drive through the region. He does not provide an index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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Product Description: Proliferation poses a broad range of threats to the United States, as well as to our allies and coalition partners. Intercontinental missiles armed with weapons of mass destruction are one of these threats, and it has become obvious that rogue nations such as Iran and North Korea may be acquiring the capability to build such missiles as well as the ability to arm them with nuclear or lethal biological weapons...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

There is a wide spectrum of potential threats to the U.S. homeland that do not involve overt attacks by states using long-range missiles or conventional military forces. Such threats include covert attacks by state actors, state use of proxies, independent terrorist and extremist attacks by foreign groups or individuals, and independent terrorist and extremist attacks by residents of the United States. These threats are currently limited in scope and frequency, but are emerging as potentially significant issues for future U.S. security. In this comprehensive work, Cordesman argues that new threats require new thinking, and offers a range of recommendations, from expanding the understanding of what constitutes a threat and bolstering Homeland defense measures, to bettering resource allocation and improving intelligence gathering and analysis.No pattern of actual attacks on U.S. territory has yet emerged that provides a clear basis for predicting how serious any given form of attack might be in the future, what means of attack might be used, or how lethal new forms of attack might be. As a result, there is a major ongoing debate over the seriousness of the threat and how the U.S. government should react. This work is an invaluable contribution to that debate. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The uncertain Arab-Israeli peace process has scarcely put an end to the threat of war in the Middle East. Israel's relations with its Arab neighbors remain tense, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is a problem for the entire region, and the Israeli-Palestinian fighting that began in September 2000 shows that the peace process can suddenly become a war process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The conclusion of a war typically signals the beginning of a flood of memoirs and instant campaign histories, many presenting the purported, but often dubious lessons of the recent conflict. Cordesman is careful to avoid such pitfalls in this detailed and closely reasoned analysis, and helps us to begin to understand the implications of this dramatic conflict on its own terms...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The fog of war is inevitably followed by the “fog of analysis.” This has certainly been true of the most important military conflict of the post–Cold War era, the Gulf War between Iraq and the allied coalition led by the United States...read more

Product Description: This volume provides a detailed analysis of Iran's politics, economics, energy exports, security and military forces, as well as an examination of current Western policy toward Iran and its regional activities and support of Islamic extremists...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This volume provides analysis of the state of Iraq’s security and of current Western policy toward the country in the wake of the Gulf War. It also examines the political, economic, and security impact of sanctions, Iraq’s future role as an oil exporter, the U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This volume provides the first detailed analysis of the trends in U.S. contingency capabilities since the end of the Gulf War, the impact of the Bush administration’s “Base Force” policy, and the Clinton administration’s “Bottom Up Review” of current U.S. contingency capabilities. It examines U.S. capabilities in the Gulf through the year 2001, the impact of current force improvement plans and defense budgets, and the new problems created by the need for counterproliferation strategy. Finally, it details the new strategic relationships that have developed between the U.S. and the Southern Gulf states since the Gulf War, as well as the impact of U.S. arms sales and military assistance. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: The fog of war is inevitably followed by the “fog of analysis.” This has certainly been true of the most important military conflict of the post–Cold War era, the Gulf War between Iraq and the allied coalition led by the United States...read more

Product Description: Iran and Iraq are two of the most politically-volatile countries in the world, posing a genuine threat both to each other and more widely. This book provides an analysis of the military capabilities of both countries, tracing the history of their armed forces, discussing their current security developments, and providing an assessment of the strength and effectiveness of their armies, navies, and air and air-defence forces...read more

Product Description: A comprehensive analysis of the Middle East in the aftermath of the Gulf War. This text discusses conventional forces and assesses developments in the biological, chemical and nuclear weaponry. Summary tables and charts present key statistics for the region, formatted to allow quick comparisons...read more

Product Description: Part of a three-volume study of the military events and lessons of major international conflicts. The series covers a range of topics from combatants and terrain to chemical and nuclear weapons. This volume covers the first naval battle and the only Soviet military defeat since World War II...read more