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"This comprehensive analysis documents the military forces in each Middle Eastern country at the end of the Cold War. Cordesman discusses security developments and provides a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the strength and effectiveness of every army, navy, air force, and air defence force in the region. He further assesses post-Cold War modernization and expansions plans and each country's internal security situations, the role the military plays in its government and internal tensions and civil wars. Special attention is paid to Iran and Iraq and the author examines the military changes in both countries as responses to the Iran-Iraq and the First Gulf War. After the Storm is unique in combining the evaluation of conventional forces with assessments of developments in biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and provides a coherent picture of the state of the military in the Middle East in the early 1990s. Summary tables and charts present keys statistics for the region, formatted to allow quick country by country comparisons."--Bloomsbury Publishing

More than a decade into the "war on terrorism," much of the political debate in the United States is still fixated on the legacy of 9/11. US politics has a partisan fixation on Benghazi, the Boston Marathon bombing, intelligence intercepts, and Guantanamo. Far too much attention still focuses on "terrorism" at a time the United States faces a much broader range of threats from the instability in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Islamic world.

Key security, political, and economic issues -- The uncertain security environment in Iraq -- Arab-Kurdish tensions : political accommodation versus the possibility of conflict and dividing the Iraqi security forces -- The Sunni insurgency and Sunni politics -- The uncertain security and politics of the south -- The role of external powers : Iraqi attitudes toward outside states and companies -- The uncertain politics of the national election and forming a viable government -- The costs and risks of dependence on the petroleum sector -- The broader range of economic challenges and "threats" -- Iraqi reconstruction funding -- Shaping the character of U.S. withdrawal -- The Ministry of Defense and Iraqi military forces -- The Ministry of Interior, Iraqi Police and Internal Security Forces -- U.S. support of Iraqi Security Forces : "the paradigm shift" -- The Iraqi-U.S. strategic framework agreement : U.S. troop withdrawal and the shift to aid and advisory services