Kuwait

Anthony H. Cordesman is currently a senior fellow and codirector of the Middle East Program, and director of the Middle East Program at CSIS, a military analyst for ABC News and adjunct professor of national security studies at Georgetown University. He has served in senior positions in the office of the secretary of defence, NATO, and the U.S. Senate. Abraham R. Wagner is an independent defence consultant in the area of national security problems working with Science Applications International, Inc., as well as several federal agencies. He has written extensively on Third World military technologies and appeared on ABC News, the BBC, National Public Radio, and CBN to provide expert analysis of the Persian Gulf War.

• Preface -- Introduction -- Kuwait’s External Security: The Problem of Iran and Iraq -- Political and Economic Stability and Security -- Internal Security -- Kuwait’s Military Forces -- Kuwaiti Military Spending and Arms Imports -- Kuwait’s Military Forces Before the Gulf War -- Rebuilding Kuwait’s Forces Following the Gulf War -- Kuwait’s Land Forces Since the Gulf War -- Kuwait’s Naval Forces Since the Gulf War -- Kuwait’s Air Forces Since the Gulf War -- Kuwaiti Paramilitary and Internal Security Forces -- Strategic Interests -- Sources and Methods