Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Introduction; 1 What do Middle Eastern armies do?; 2 The Arab as insurgent and counterinsurgent; 3 The Iran-Iraq war: Will without means; 4 The lessons of the jihadist insurgency in Saudi Arabia; 5 Egypt's civil war; 6 Terrorism as a military factor: The Israeli-Palestinian peace process era, 1993-2000; 7 Lebanon 2006: Unfinished war; 8 Lebanon's militia wars; 9 The Soviet-Afghan war*: A superpower mired in the mountains; 10 The Morocco-Polisario war for Western Sahara, 1975-1991
Summary
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