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Conflict and Insurgency in the Contemporary Middle East / edited by Barry Rubin. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2009. - xi, 289 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Middle Eastern military studies . - Middle eastern military studies. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What do Middle Eastern armies do? / Barry Rubin -- The Arab as insurgent and counterinsurgent / Norvell B. DeAtkine -- The Iran-Iraq War : will without means / Joana Dodds and Benjamin Wilson -- The lessons of the jihadist insurgency in Saudi Arabia / Hassan Mneimneh -- Egypt's civil war / Barry Rubin -- Terrorism as a military factor : the Israeli-Palestinian peace process era, 1993-2000 / Boaz Ganor -- Lebanon 2006 : unfinished war / Jonathan Spyer -- Lebanon's militia wars / Tony Badran -- The Soviet-Afghan War : a superpower mired in the mountains / Lester W. Grau -- The Morocco-Polisario War for western Sahara, 1975-1991 / Jacob Mundy -- Islamism and insurgency in post-independence Algeria / Yahia H. Zoubir -- The Iraq insurgency / William S. McCallister -- Innovation and war : the U.S. military and the Iraq insurgency / James A. Russell.

ISBN: 9780415457583 (cloth : alk. paper) 0415457580 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780203881873 (ebook) 0203881877 (ebook)

LCCN: 2008036274

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Insurgency--History--Middle East--20th century.
Insurgency--History--Middle East--21st century.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Middle East--History--1979-
Middle East--History, Military--20th century.
Middle East--History, Military--21st century.

LC Class. No.: DS63.1 / .C623 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 355.020956 / CON