Armies of Arabia: Military Politics and Effectiveness in the Gulf

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Notes

1 Kenneth M. Pollack, Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948–1991 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004).

2 see. e.g.: De Bruin, Erica. How to Prevent Coups d'État: Counterbalancing and Regime Survival (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020).

3 E.g., Michael Beckley, “Economic Development and Military Effectiveness”, The Journal of Strategic Studies 33.1 (2010), pp. 43–79.

4 Risa A. Brooks, Shaping Strategy: The Civil-Military Politics of Strategic Assessment (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2008); Caitlin Talmadge, The Dictator’s Army: Battlefield Effectiveness in Authoritarian Regimes (New York: Cornell University Press, 2015).