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Transnational threats from the Middle East: crying wolf or crying havoc?

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Carlisle, Pa., USA: Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, 1999Description: 231pISBN:
  • 158487001X (pbk.)
Subject(s): Summary: Analyses the significant potential threats to the West posed by the Middle East. Problems examined include narcotics and organised crime; immigration; terrorism; and arms proliferation, particularly with reference to weapons of mass destruction. The author asserts that if the threats of Middle Eastern terrorism and proliferation were to be combined into super-terrorism, the result would create a new form of asymmetric warfare for which the West is ill-prepared.
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Analyses the significant potential threats to the West posed by the Middle East. Problems examined include narcotics and organised crime; immigration; terrorism; and arms proliferation, particularly with reference to weapons of mass destruction. The author asserts that if the threats of Middle Eastern terrorism and proliferation were to be combined into super-terrorism, the result would create a new form of asymmetric warfare for which the West is ill-prepared.

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