Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Foreword
- INTRODUCTION
- Section 1 Contemporary Threats and the Evolving Nature of Warfare
- Section 2 Innovation in Defense and Intelligence
- Section 3 Political and Civilian Impacts on the Future of Warfare
- Section 4 Conflict and Order in the Middle East
- 8 Moving Towards Unity: Making Effective Use of Arab Gulf Forces and Resources
- 9 The Future of Warfare in the 21st Century: The Middle East as a Model
- Contributors
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - Moving Towards Unity: Making Effective Use of Arab Gulf Forces and Resources
from Section 4 - Conflict and Order in the Middle East
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Foreword
- INTRODUCTION
- Section 1 Contemporary Threats and the Evolving Nature of Warfare
- Section 2 Innovation in Defense and Intelligence
- Section 3 Political and Civilian Impacts on the Future of Warfare
- Section 4 Conflict and Order in the Middle East
- 8 Moving Towards Unity: Making Effective Use of Arab Gulf Forces and Resources
- 9 The Future of Warfare in the 21st Century: The Middle East as a Model
- Contributors
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Each of the Arab Gulf states faces major challenges in terms of its stability and security interests—only some of which can be addressed by creating more effective military forces, security forces, alliances within the Gulf and alliances with outside powers. These challenges vary from country to country, but they include religious extremism and terrorism; asymmetric and missile threats from Iran; internal sectarian, ethnic and tribal divisions; the need to deal with massive demographic pressures and a “youth bulge” that requires the creation of massive numbers of jobs and new social infrastructure as well as stable political and social evolution to avoid political upheavals that can do as much or more to disrupt reform and modernization as to achieve them.
Meeting Four Emerging Threats
Each Arab Gulf state must reshape every element of its security structure to move away from a past focus on conventional warfare and compartmented internal security efforts toward a spectrum of four interactive challenges:
• Internal security, counterterrorism (CT) and civil–military stability operations—often involving outside powers and arms transfers.
• Low to mid-level asymmetric wars that may involve conventional forces.
• Conventional wars using asymmetric means.
• Use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), weapons of mass effectiveness, and cyber-warfare, as well as wild card patterns of conflict and escalation.
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- The Future of Warfare in the Twenty First Century , pp. 193 - 228Publisher: Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and ResearchPrint publication year: 2014