Islam at War: A History

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Chapter 11 MULLAHS AND MISSILES: ISLAMIC WARS SINCE 1945 When the industrial world went to its two great wars in the twentieth c ...

172 ISLAM AT WAR and Europe. These new states had many other significant liabilities as they formed their military structures. F ...

MULLAHS AND MISSILES 173 military situation would improve, but they would never catch up to their opponents. The Arab-Israeli wa ...

174 ISLAM AT WAR and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The skill at arms had not only disappeared, but warfare had changed mar ...

MULLAHS AND MISSILES 175 infantry. That particular technology is complex and requires mathematical skills not readily available ...

176 ISLAM AT WAR the Israelis, they were inevitably looking over their shoulders at their allies in an atmosphere of mistrust. T ...

MULLAHS AND MISSILES 177 formations that General Glubb had trained. The Israeli 7th Haganah Bri- gade launched an attack with mo ...

178 ISLAM AT WAR The Israelis, for their part, performed brilliantly. By now they had mas- tered the art of complex offensive op ...

MULLAHS AND MISSILES 179 plans for an attack on Israel. Even the moderate King Hussein of Jordan was obliged to join rather than ...

180 ISLAM AT WAR of the Israeli turning movements caused the senior Egyptian unit com- manders to fear for their lives, and they ...

MULLAHS AND MISSILES 181 could not rescue the forces locked in battle with the 40th Brigade. As the Israeli tanks arrived, the J ...

182 ISLAM AT WAR ment to make basic training a reality. The same mistakes would not be made four times. Egyptian President Nasse ...

MULLAHS AND MISSILES 183 utter confusion: along the Lexicon road raced Egyptian ambulances; units of the Egyptian infantry were ...

184 ISLAM AT WAR Brigade moved in to engage the Israelis. The Israelis quickly battered it into a hasty withdrawal. In these two ...

MULLAHS AND MISSILES 185 sonnel carriers and the entire brigade supply train was destroyed. How- ever, of the ten T-62 tanks tha ...

186 ISLAM AT WAR Pakistani soldiers were killed. An undeclared war began in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, and on September 6, ...

MULLAHS AND MISSILES 187 army launched a terror campaign on March 25 designed to cow the Ben- galis into submission. India was n ...

188 ISLAM AT WAR Pakistanis held an impregnable position, but the officers’ spirit broke and they chose to surrender. Pakistan w ...

MULLAHS AND MISSILES 189 When the Iranian revolution occurred, Saddam Hussein, dictator of Iraq, perceived that the once powerfu ...