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Prognosis: ‘More of the Same’ for Middle East Strife

SUMMARY

In this final article on Middle East Hostilities, the NSA's regional expert predicts "more of the same" but with "increasingly lethal weapons and tactics". SIGINT shows that a number of Arab states privately encourage US-led strikes against Islamic extremists, but the region remains fundamentally impossible to understand for the West, and "successful intervention futile." 

DOCUMENT’S DATE

Aug 02, 2006

PUBLICLY AVAILABLE

May 29, 2019