For awhile I have heard references to the Rand think-tanks, related with the visions that moved the US to start this second war in the Gulf.
Today I was reading some papers in their website(
http://www.rand.org/), and some of them, seemed very interesting to me.
If somebody have the time/patience, here some links that I liked (specially the 2 Last):
- Confronting Iraq: U.S. Policy and the Use of Force Since the Gulf War (MR-1146-OSD) by Daniel L. Byman and Matthew C. Waxman, 2000.
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1146
- Leadership Succession in the Arab World: A Policy-Maker’s Guide" (RP-902) by Jerrold D. Green, 2000. Originally published in Changing Leadership in the Arab World.
http://www.rand.org/cgi-bin/Abstract....pl?doc=RP-902
- The Persian Gulf in the Coming Decade: Trends, Threats, and Opportunities (MR-1528-AF) by Daniel L. Byman and John R. Wise, 2002 (PDF).
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1528/
- Persian Gulf Security (MR-1245-AF) edited by Richard Sokolsky, Stuart Johnson, and F. Stephen Larrabee, 2000.
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1245/
[ March 31, 2003, 03:09: Message edited by: Master Belisarius ]