In his highly influential book The Threatening Storm, bestselling author Kenneth Pollack both inf...

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'Even the most seasoned Middle East observers were taken aback by the events of early 2011. Prote...

'There is no greater foreign policy challenge for the United States today than the reconstruction...

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'Crafting a new policy toward Iran is a complicated, uncertain, and perilous challenge. Since it ...

Armies of Sand addresses why Arab armed forces fared so poorly in battle since the Second World W...

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'The world's foremost expert on Middle Eastern relations explains Iran's current nuclear potentia...

Kenneth M. Pollack, formerly a Persian Gulf military analyst at the CIA and Director for Persian ...