El. knyga: Threatening Storm

An expert on the Middle East and Persian Gulf analyzes the growing conflict between the United States and Iraq, assessing the political, strategic, and military forces at work in both nations.

An expert on the Middle East and Persian Gulf offers a timely analysis of the growing conflict between the United States and Iraq; assesses the various political, strategic, and military forces at work in both nations to provide a close-up look at Iraq's military capabilities and Saddam Hussein; and calls for a U.S. invasion of Iraq to eliminate the current regime. 30,000 first printing.

For the past fifteen years, as an analyst on Iraq for the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, Kenneth Pollack has studied Saddam as closely as anyone else in the United States. In 1990, he was one of only three CIA analysts to predict the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. As the principal author of the CIA's history of Iraqi military strategy and operations during the Gulf War, Pollack gained rare insight into the methods and workings of what he believes to be the most brutal regime since Stalinist Russia.