Nations around the world are uncertain and anxious about Iran's
intentions in the Middle East and the wider global arena. Its
current president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has made no secret of his
opposition to Western society, particularly Israel, and his desire
to acquire nuclear weapons. However, as Anthony H. Cordesman and
Martin Kleiber point out, Ahmadinejad does not necessarily speak
for the Iranian clerical regime, who operate in a cloud of secrecy
and also directly control Iran's military. Given the ambiguous
nature of Iran's global objectives, this new study focuses on the
tangible aspects of Iran's military forces and takes an objective
look at the realistic threats that Iran poses to the region and the
world. The authors systematically assess each aspect of Iranian
military forces from their conventional armies to their asymmetric
threat via proxy wars in the region. Much attention in national
security debates is paid to Iran's intentions without first
understanding its capabilities. Lacking such a fundamental
understanding, much of this speculation tends to be wasted and
irrelevant to what could actually happen in the event of a
conflict. Cordesman and Kleiber's study provides, in meticulous
detail, a basis for understanding the realistic threat that Iran
poses to the Northern Gulf.
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