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Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction
This book provides an in-depth examination of the serious security implications that Iran's nuclear program has on a region that is already plagued by insecurity and conflict. Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Birth of a Regional Nuclear Arms Race? is an expert insider's look at Iran's current and potential ability to wage both conventional and asymmetrical warfare, and the options available for dealing with a nuclear Iran. Are we on the brink of a regional nuclear arms race in the Middle East? In this urgent volume, Anthony Cordesman and Adam Seitz examine how Iran's nuclear ambitions have already altered security policy for the United States, Iran's neighbors, and the international community. Cordesman and Seitz address the full range of issues related to Iran's quest for nuclear weapons, including its emphasis on medium- and long-range missiles, the decline of Iran's conventional military capabilities, and continued Iranian efforts to undercut the spread of democracy in the region.
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Israel and Syria : the military balance and prospects of war
Israel and Syria: The Military Balance and Prospects of War provides a detailed and current picture of the military capabilities of Israel and Syria, reflecting the changes and lessons of the Israel-Hezbollah War in 2006 and other recent conflicts. It offers extensive analysis, supported by tables and charts, on the trends in military spending, arms imports and technology transfers, military manpower, weapons, and orders of battle. By going beyond military balance analysis, Cordesman examines the probable nature and results of a future war and how the readiness, capability, tactics, and technology on each side would shape its outcome. Israel and Syria: The Military Balance and Prospects of War shows how a dangerous new conflict between both nations would cripple all strides in strategic gains and Israeli-Syrian diplomacy. On the other hand, peace negotiations would offer a safer, more productive relationship. Israel and Syria need to consider the true nature of their military balance and the undermining effect to both nations as well as the costs and risks of any future conflict. Although Syria does retain important options in terms of asymmetric and proxy conflicts, it would fail in its attempt to recapture the Golan. While Israel would almost certainly win a future war, it cannot make gains from acquiring more Syrian territory and a new war would create major problems with its neighbors and in dealing with the Palestinians. The risk of a new Israeli-Syrian conflict is so serious that both sides need to understand the true nature of their military balance, and the costs and risks of any future conflict. Israel and Syria: The Military Balance and Prospects of War shows how dangerous a new conflict could be, that neither side can make lasting strategic gains from a future conflict, and that peace negotiations offer a far safer and more productive option. It provides a detailed and current picture of the military capabilities of Israel and Syria, reflecting the changes and lessons of the Israel-Hezbollah War in 2006 and other recent conflicts. Israel and Syria: The Military Balance and Prospects of War provides extensive analysis, supported by tables and charts, on the trends in military spending, arms imports and technology transfers, military manpower, weapons, and orders of battle. By going beyond military balance analysis, Cordesman examines the probable nature and results of a future war and how the readiness, capability, tactics, and technology on each side would shape its outcome.
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After The Storm
This comprehensive new analysis goes far beyond today's headlines and the basic facts and figures on the military forces in the region. Tracing the origin of the military forces in each Middle East country, Tony Cordesman discusses current security developments and provides a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the strength and effectiveness of every army, navy, air force, and air defense force in the region.
The author assesses current modernization and force expansion plans, force improvement priorities, and the ability of each force to absorb new military equipment. He also looks at each country's internal security situations, the role the military plays in its government, and internal tensions and civil wars. In addition to analyzing regular forces, Cordesman examines all of the paramilitary and rebel forces in the region.
Cordesman's detailed analysis provides fresh insights into several specific regional issues. In the Maghreb, he focuses on the war for control of the Western Sahara, the role of the military in Algeria's internal security, and Libya's impact on the political and military stability of the Middle East. He then analyzes Israel's new approach to force planning, the risks of an Israeli-Syrian conflict, Jordan's growing military and internal security problems, efforts to rebuild Lebanon's military forces, and military developments within the PLO. Turning to the Red Sea states, Cordesman discusses the military changes in Yemen since unification and the Gulf War; Yemen's confrontation with Saudi Arabia; the history of the civil wars in the Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia; and the risk that the Horn of Africa will suffer further from civil war in the future.
Special attention is given to Iran and Iraq. Cordesman examines Iran's new military buildup in light of the political changes since the death of Khomeini and the military changes since the Iran-Iraq War and the Gulf War. He offers the first comprehensive analysis of the impact of the Gulf War on Iraq's military forces and explains what Iraq is doing to rebuild its capabilities. The author also evaluates the forces of the southern Gulf states, tracing the problems created by their failure to develop effective regional cooperation and national force plans.
After the Storm is unique in combining the evaluation of conventional forces with assessments of developments in biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons. Cordesman provides technical descriptions of these weapons systems and documents their proliferation. Summary tables and charts present key statistics for the region, formatted in ways that allow quick country-to-country comparisons. The author closes with assessments of the prospects for arms control in each country, the impact of those nations' military status on Western strategic interests, and the need for Western military assistance and power projection.
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Chinese strategy and military modernization in 2015
This study is intended to support a dialogue among China, the United States, and other key Asian powers. It focuses on the current developments in China's military strategy, forces, and modernization, but in the context of how they are influencing U.S. strategy and force development and the reactions of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
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Chinese strategy and military power in 2014 : Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese and US perspectives
This report tracks and analyzes trends in Chinese military strategy, force structure, and regional activity. Chinese perspectives on their military's role and development are featured, as well as the views of other relevant regional actors.
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The Iranian sea-air-missile threat to gulf shipping
The Arabian Gulf is now involved in a massive arms race, triggered largely by the fear that Iran will try to use its military forces to intimidate or dominate its neighbors. Iran has threatened to close the Gulf and carried out a wide range of large military exercises to show its capabilities. And Iran has steadily increased its ability to exploit the threat of conventional and asymmetric warfare to maritime traffic in the Gulf. The buildup of Iran's naval, air, and missile capabilities poses a wide range of threats to maritime traffic into and outside of the Gulf.
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