Kenneth M. Pollack

Armies of Sand

The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness

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Armies of Sand addresses why Arab armed forces fared so poorly in battle since the Second World War. It explores four different explanations that scholars, soldiers, and military experts have suggested: Soviet doctrine, politicization, underdevelopment, and culture. To do so, it looks at 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 cultureall contribute to the past weakness of Arab armies. It concludes by addressing circumstances in which Arab military fortunes may shift as both warfare and their societies change.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-752464-0
EAN: 9780197524640
Produktnummer: 33703739
Verlag: Oxford Academic
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 696 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.6 cm
Abbildungen: 27 maps

Über den Autor

Kenneth M. Pollack was a longtime Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution, where he ran the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, and is currently a Resident Scholar of the American Enterprise Institute.