• DOI:10.1080/04597222.2018.1561033
• Corpus ID: 219628874

Chapter Seven: Middle East and North Africa

@article{2019ChapterSM,
  title={Chapter Seven: Middle East and North Africa},
  author={},
  journal={The Military Balance},
  year={2019},
  volume={119},
  pages={320 - 379}
}

• Published 1 January 2019
• The Military Balance

Gulf Arab navies are undertaking significant development programmes to equip themselves for a more challenging and complex regional maritime environment. Israel has been enforcing a red line around the transfer of advanced military technology from Iran to Hizbullah and also conducting a campaign of air and missile strikes against Iranian forces in Syria. However, following the 17 September shootdown by Syria of a Russian IL-20 surveillance aircraft, Russia’s supply of S-300 missiles to Syrian forces will complicate Israel’s plans and calculations.