By Spencer C. Tucker
The enormous, five-volume The Encyclopedia of heart East Wars: the USA within the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts is a must have source for an individual looking to understand U.S. activities during this unstable sector. lower than the professional editorship of Spencer C. Tucker, the encyclopedia strains twentieth- and 21st-century U.S. involvement within the center East and south-central Asia, targeting the final 3 many years. starting with the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq struggle, it covers the 1979-1989 Soviet career of Afghanistan, the 1991 Persian Gulf conflict, allied punitive activities opposed to Iraq in the course of the Nineties, the Afghanistan conflict, the Iraq struggle, and the worldwide struggle on Terror. Many smaller army activities opposed to Iran, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and different regimes which have been considering overseas terrorism also are integrated. international relations, faith because it relates to center East clash, and social/cultural advancements are different key matters of study, as is the interaction of politics with army coverage within the usa and different international locations all for the sector.
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In 1997 I became the deputy commander of CENTCOM, and the following year I was appointed as the commander in chief. Before assuming my duties as deputy commander and commander, I read more than 50 books on the Middle East in preparation for my assignment. I had come to know the region somewhat, but I believed that there was so much more to know about the history and culture of this complex and fascinating region. I also reached out to regional experts for insights. Like all great civilizations of the past, the ones from the Middle East had their periods of greatness and their periods of decline.
Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on August 1, 1924. He was educated privately, chiefly at the Princes’ School in the Royal Court. He became acquainted with governmental and administrative work at a young age and became mayor of Mecca in 1950. In 1963 Abdullah assumed the post of deputy defense minister and commander of the National Guard. In 1975 he began serving as second deputy prime minister. He became the crown prince as well as first deputy prime minister in 1982 when Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz al-Saud, his half-brother, became king.
A History of Saudia Arabia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Lippman, Thomas W. Inside the Mirage: America’s Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia. New York: Westview, 2005. Ménoret, Pascal. The Saudi Enigma: A History. London: Zed, 2005. Teitelbaum, Joshua. The Rise and Fall of the Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz. New York: New York University Press, 2001. S. S. Central Command (CENTCOM) from July 7, 2003, to March 16, 2007. John Philip Abizaid was born on April 1, 1951, in Coleville, California, into a Christian Lebanese family that had emigrated to the United States in the 1880s.