Armies of sand : the past, present, and future of Arab military effectiveness /
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 th...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the Six-Day War and the mystery of Arab military ineffectiveness
- Pattens of Arab military performance
- Soviet doctrine
- The Soviet way of war
- Arab militaries and Soviet doctrine
- North Korea, Cuba, and Soviet doctrine
- Politicization
- Politicization
- Arab militaries and politicization : Egypt
- Arab militaries and politicization : Iraq
- Politicization and the South Vietnamese armed forces
- Politicization and the Argentine armed forces
- Underdevelopment
- Economic development and military effectiveness
- Economic development and Syrian military effectiveness
- Economic development and the Libya-Chad wars
- Economic development and Chinese military effectiveness
- Economic development and Arab military effectiveness
- Culture
- War and culture
- Arab culture as an explanation for military ineffectiveness
- Arab culture : patterns and predilections
- Arab culture and Arab military effectiveness
- Arab culture and civilian organizations
- Culture and education : the causal link
- Arab military training methods
- Exceptional Arab militaries : state armed forces
- Exceptional Arab militaries : non-state armies
- Conclusions : the past, present, and future of Arab military effectiveness.