This book is intended to be a reference for military analysts, arms control specialists, and experts on the region, and
to provide a picture of military developments that few regional governments are willing to make public, but which
shape security developments in the most heavily armed region in the world. The following chapters provide a
detailed picture of the quantitative and qualitative trends in the military balance in the Middle East and North
Africa, and of the levels of military forces, the levels of military spending and arms imports in each country. They
describe national efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction and provide summary assessments of proliferation
and the size and nature of the terrorist and extremist forces in the region.