The North African military balance [electronic resource] : force developments & regional challenges / Anthony H. Cordesman and Aram Nerguizian ; with the assistance of Charles Loi.

• Comparative resources & security dynamics. The impact of non-military factors -- Comparative trends in military expenditures -- Trends in regional arms imports -- National patterns in modernization and recapitalization -- Ground forces recapitalization and modernization -- Air forces recapitalization and modernization -- Naval forces recapitalization and modernization -- The limited impact of foreign military aid -- The conventional military balance. Broad patterns in conventional force development -- Comparative manpower quantity and quality -- Army and land force weapons and technology -- Comparative surface-to-surface capabilities -- Air force aircraft, weapons, and technology -- Comparative land-based air defense forces -- Comparative naval strength -- Paramilitary forces and internal security. Regional security forces -- Internal security and counterterrorism operations -- Moroccan-Algerian cold peace & the western Sahara conflict -- AQIM : regional threat or Algerian pariah? -- The challenges of security and counterterrorism cooperation.

Ämnesord

military balance  -- North Africa (sipri)

Balance of power.  (LCSH)

Internal security  -- Africa, North. (LCSH)

Armies  -- Africa, North -- Statistics. (LCSH)

Navies  -- Africa, North -- Statistics. (LCSH)

Air forces  -- Africa, North -- Statistics. (LCSH)

Africa, North  -- Armed Forces -- Manpower -- Statistics. (LCSH)

Africa, North  -- Armed Forces -- Equipment -- Statistics. (LCSH)

Africa, North  -- Armed Forces -- Appropriations and expenditures. (LCSH)