The Arab-U.S. strategic partnership and the changing security balance in the Gulf : joint and asymmetric warfare, missiles and missile defense, civil war and non-state actors, and outside powers /

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Author / Creator:Cordesman, Anthony H., author.
Imprint:Washington, DC : Center for Strategic & International Studies ; Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
©2015
Description:1 online resource (xi, 603 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13453656
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Varying Form of Title:Arab-United States strategic partnership and the changing security balance in the Gulf
Other authors / contributors:Peacock, Michael, author.
CSIS Burke Chair in Strategy, issuing body.
Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.), publisher.
ISBN:9781442258990
1442258993
9781442258983
1442258985
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:"October 2015."
"A report of the CSIS Burke Chair in Strategy."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-603).
Online resource; title from PDF title page (CSIS, viewed November 9, 2015).
Summary:"The ongoing confrontation with Iran, the war against ISIL, the instability in Iraq, the civil war in Syria, and the conflict in Yemen have all caused major changes in the security situation in the Persian Gulf and in the regional military balance. The strategic partnership between Arab Gulf states, and with the United States and other outside states, must now evolve to deal with conventional military threats and a range of new threats, including ideological extremists, non-state actors and their state sponsors, and a growing range of forces designed to fight asymmetric wars. This new report ... provides a 2015 assessment of the Gulf military balance, the military capabilities of each Gulf state, the role of the United States as a security partner, and the priorities for change in the structure of both the Gulf Cooperation Council and the Arab Gulf military partnership with the United States. The assessment goes far beyond the conventional military balance and examines how force developments in the region affect joint and asymmetric warfare, missiles and missile defense, nuclear forces, as well as terrorism, the role of non-state actors, and outside powers"--Publisher's web site.