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Shadow wars : the secret struggle for the Middle East / Christopher Davidson.
By: Davidson, Christopher M. (Christopher Michael) [author.]
.Publisher: London : Oneworld Publications, 2016Description: xiii, 672 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781786070012.Subject(s): Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1979-DDC classification: 956.05
Contents:
Counter-revolution: a pattern emerges -- Cold war, oil war: America takes over -- The road to al-Qaeda: the CIA's baby -- Allied to jihad: useful idiots -- The Arab Spring: a system threatened -- Plan "A": Islamists versus the deep state -- Plan "B": a fake Arab Spring -- Enter the Islamic State: a phantom menace -- The Islamic State: a strategic asset -- The Islamic State: a gift that keeps giving -- Epilogue: Keeping the wheel turning.
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 956.05 DAV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 013394 |
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| 956.046 BRE Cursed victory : | 956.046 LAR The six-day war : | 956.046 SEG 1967 : | 956.05 DAV Shadow wars : | 956.05 GHA Black wave : Saudi Arabia, Iran and the rivalry that unravelled the Middle East / | 956.05 KEP Bad moon rising : | 956.054 COO False dawn : |
Counter-revolution: a pattern emerges -- Cold war, oil war: America takes over -- The road to al-Qaeda: the CIA's baby -- Allied to jihad: useful idiots -- The Arab Spring: a system threatened -- Plan "A": Islamists versus the deep state -- Plan "B": a fake Arab Spring -- Enter the Islamic State: a phantom menace -- The Islamic State: a strategic asset -- The Islamic State: a gift that keeps giving -- Epilogue: Keeping the wheel turning.