A Soldier with the Arabs
Author | : Sir John Bagot Glubb |
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Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Jordan |
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Author | : Sir John Bagot Glubb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Jordan |
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Author | : John Bagot Glubb |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1957 |
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Author | : Kenneth Michael Pollack |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 697 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 0190906960 |
Armies of Sand asks, 'why have Arab militaries fought so poorly in the modern era?' It examines the performance of over two-dozen Arab militaries from 1948 to 2017, and compares them to a half-dozen non-Arab militaries, to conclude that politics, economics, and culture all contributed to the past weakness of Arab armies.
Author | : John B. Glubb |
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Release | : 1954 |
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Author | : John Bagot Glubb (Sir) |
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Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1957 |
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Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0803287836 |
Kenneth M. Pollack, formerly a Persian Gulf military analyst at the CIA and Director for Persian Gulf Affairs at the National Security Council, describes and analyzes theømilitary history of the six key Arab states?Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Syria?during the post?World War II era. He shows in detail how each Arab military grew and learned from its own experiences in response to the specific objectives set for it and within often constrained political, economic, and social circumstances. This first-ever overview of the modern Arab approach to warfare provides a better understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the Arab militaries, some of which are the United States? most likely adversaries, and some of which are our most important allies.
Author | : John Bagot Glubb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1957 |
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Author | : Robert Graves |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Arab countries |
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This book recounts T. E. Lawrence life with special emphasis on his involvement in the Royal Air Force both during and after World War I.
Author | : Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2008-10-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0804769788 |
An estimated 3,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel currently volunteer to serve in the Israeli military, a force fighting other Palestinians just miles away in occupied territories. Surrounded takes a close look at this controversial group of soldiers, examining the complex reasons these people join the army and the wider implications of their decisions in terms of security and citizenship. Most observers perceive a clear and powerful divide in the political tensions and open hostilities between the State of Israel and the Palestinian people, but often fail to notice those who straddle this divide—Palestinian citizens of Israel. These soldiers comprise no more than half a percent of this population, but their stories provide a powerful vantage point from which to consider a question faced by all Palestinians in Israel: to what extent are they, in fact, Israeli? Surrounded contains over seventy interviews with soldiers, and provides a unique glimpse of their conflicting experiences of acceptance, integration, and marginalization within the Israeli military. Concluding with comparisons to similar situations around the world, the book upends nationalist understandings of how wars and those who fight in them work. A key to a more complex understanding of ethnic conflict, this gripping and revealing look at a select group of soldiers will immensely alter ideas about the reasons why people choose to fight, particularly on "the wrong side" of a war.
Author | : Athol Yates |
Publisher | : Helion and Company |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2020-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 180451618X |
While today the military of the United Arab Emirates is described admiringly as a 'little Sparta', just 60 years ago the only security forces in the Emirates were the armed retainers of the Ruling Sheikhs and a small British-led, locally-raised Arab force. Through a combination of direct oversight by rulers, investment in its nationals, engagement of expatriates and the purchase of cutting edge military hardware, the UAE Armed Forces has become, arguably, the most capable Arab military. In the last decade, it has also gained considerable experience through its military operations in Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Syria and Yemen. This book traces the little-known history of the country’s military from 1951 to 2020. It provides unparalleled detail on the constituent forces that evolved into the UAE Armed Forces in 1976, and how that unified force has evolved to the present. It provides essential background information on how the country’s geography, demographics and political system have shaped its military, the enduring roles of the military and the history of each military service. It also details the political and command structure governing the military, and its manpower and materiel characteristics. The book concludes with an explanation of how the UAE has been able to develop such a highly capable military for its size in a relatively short period of time.