Abstract
"The Jaffee Center''s new, reorganized Middle East Military Balance provides the most comprehensive and objective analysis of Middle East military developments available in the open literature."
--Geoffrey Kemp, Regional Strategic Program, The Nixon Center
"The indispensable resource for all who deal with the Middle East or with its role in global politics."
-Edward N. Luttwak, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
"The Jaffee Center''s Middle East Military Balance is ''must reading'' for any Arab scholar or official interested in ascertaining Israel''s assessment of the distribution of military power in the Middle East."
-Dr. Abdel Monem Said Aly, Director, Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Cairo
The Middle East remains one of the world's most volatile regions. Stretching from Morocco to Iran, the area has seen numerous international and internal conflicts over the past decades. Understanding the dynamics of these conflicts requires detailed information on the military capabilities of the region's countries.
The Middle East Military Balance is prepared annually by the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv, Israel. It is based on data from many sources, including some that are unavailable to other institutes. With its wealth of current, hard-to-find information, it offers an authoritative and indispensable guide to military capabilities in the Middle East.
Shlomo Brom (Brigadier General, ret.) joined the Jaffee Center as a Senior Research Associate in late 1998. From 1990 to 1998 he served as Deputy Chief and then Chief of the Strategic Planning Division of the Israeli Defense Forces. Since 1993, Yiftah Shapir has been associated with the Jaffee Center''s Project on Security and Arms Control in the Middle East, were he follows proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the region.
Shapir, Yiftah and Shlomo Brom. “The Middle East Military Balance, 1999-2000.” MIT Press, December 1, 1999