[PDF] Cold War Warrior Of The Middle East eBook

Author : Ahron Bregman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 14,84 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1351873644

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From the end of the Second World War and throughout the era that came to be known as the Cold War, the Middle East was a battleground for Great Power rivalries and constant wars. These were fought between Israelis and Arabs, Arabs and Iranians, Arabs and Arabs and also between regional players and outside powers; the region was also the scene of several intense civil wars and insurgencies. The essays gathered in this volume focus on some of the most important facets of these Middle Eastern conflicts. Following a general introduction, the essays are then organised under three major sections. The first focuses on the Arab-Israeli conflict; the second on the Gulf Wars, and the third section concentrates on insurgencies. Together, these essays, all of which were written by leading experts, will provide the reader with a good introduction to warfare in the modern Middle East and show how conflict has shaped the region.

Author : Anthony Tucker-Jones
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 10,6 MB
Release : 2024-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1399047493

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In Churchill Cold War Warrior, renowned military historian Anthony Tucker-Jones reassesses Winston Churchill’s neglected postwar career. He explains how in an unguarded moment Winston inadvertently sowed the seeds for the Cold War by granting Stalin control of Eastern Europe. Famously Churchill, at Fulton, then warned of the growing danger created by this partition of the continent. Winston after the Second World War wanted to prove a point. Shunned by the electorate in 1945, instead of retiring he was determined to be Prime Minister for a second time. Biding his time he watched in dismay as Britain scuttled from India and Palestine and weathered the East-West confrontation over Berlin. He finally got his way in 1951 and took the reins of a country with drastically waning powers. Churchill was confronted by a world in turmoil, with an escalating Cold War that had gone hot in Korea and an unraveling British Empire. Communism and nationalism proved a heady cocktail that fanned the flames of widespread conflict. He had to contain rebellions in Kenya and Malaya while clinging on in Egypt. Desperately he also sought to avoid a Third World War and the use of nuclear weapons by reuniting the 'Big Three'.

Author : J. Edward Lee
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781456833169

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For a quarter of a century, South Carolinian James P. Richards was a skillful bi-partisan legislator, standing on the front lines with Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and his congressional colleagues to shape American Foreign Policy in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East during the Cold War. In 1957, Richards served as Eisenhower's ambassador to the strategic Middle East, travelling 30,000 miles and visiting fifteen nations explaining the evils of "international communism." Richards' bi-partisanship and his experiences in the Middle East are of interest to America in the post-9/11 world.

Author : Richard M. Bissell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 30,19 MB
Release : 1996-05-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300064306

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Forfatterens oplevelser og betragtninger som højt placeret embedsmand i den amerikanske administration - her udenrigspolitikken og internationale forhold.

Author : Teresa Fava Thomas
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 2016-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 178308510X

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This book examines the careers of 53 area experts in the US State Department’s Middle East bureau during the Cold War. Known as Arabists or Middle East hands, they were very different in background, education, and policy outlook from their predecessors, the Orientalists. A highly competitive selection process and rigorous training shaped them into a small corps of diplomatic professionals with top-notch linguistic and political reporting skills. Case studies shed light on Washington’s perceptions of Israel and the Arab world, as well as how American leaders came to regard (and often disregard) the advice of their own expert advisors. This study focuses on their transformative role in Middle East diplomacy from the Eisenhower through the Ford administrations.

Author : Andrew J. Bacevich
Publisher :
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Middle East
ISBN : 0553393936

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A critical assessment of America's foreign policy in the Middle East throughout the past four decades evaluates and connects regional engagements since 1990 while revealing their massive costs.

Author : Wilbur Crane Eveland
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 17,18 MB
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1504050053

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A “stinging indictment” of US foreign policy and covert operations in the Middle East from a former military attaché and CIA operative (The Christian Science Monitor). After the close of World War II, former army intelligence agent Wilbur Crane Eveland trained as a military attaché, specializing in the new focal point of global concern: the Middle East. In the decades that followed, he personally witnessed the evolution and many blunders of American Middle East policy from embassies of Arab states, inside the Pentagon and the White House, and as a principal CIA representative in the region. Finally, as a petroleum-engineering consultant, he lived with the results of America’s errors. In Ropes of Sand, Eveland delivers a richly detailed assessment of the mistakes, miscalculations, and outright failures he observed. The governments the United States armed to defend the Middle East against Russia ended in collapse. American support of the Shah of Iran led to disastrous results. Many of the major crises the US faced, from the energy shortage to the border issues of Israel, had been forecast decades earlier. Eveland explains the country’s failure to understand these problems and shows why every proposed solution, from the United Nations Partition Resolution for Palestine to the Camp David Accords, only added fuel to the fire. His insider critique is essential for understanding the Arab Spring, the threat of ISIS, and the ongoing conflicts we face in the region today. First released in 1980, this memoir was initially blocked from publication by the CIA for its revealing and critical discussion of numerous covert operations, some of which Eveland engaged in himself.

Author : Victor Israelyan
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 11,52 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271047737

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Provides unique insights into the volatile inner workings of the Soviet Foreign Ministry from one of the leading diplomats specializing in disarmament.

Author : Michael J. Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 30,94 MB
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1136246983

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This description of Allied contingency plans for military operations in the Middle East - in the event of conflict with the Soviet Union - argues that diplomatic events and crises in the Middle East in 1945-55 are understandable only in the context of assets sought by the Allies in that region.