The Military Balance 1999-2000 - Middle East and North Africa

"The Military Balance is the unique and vital resource on which informed public debate of the world's armed forces is founded. Up-to-date figures and information on defense budgets, procurement total, equipment holdings, and military deployments are presented clearly and succinctly. In the arrears of defense information, where nationally produced fictions often masquerade as facts, The Military Balance is the internationally recognized source of record."--William S. Cohen, former US Secretary of Defence
`Hardly anyone involved in military and political affairs can afford not to have this book, which draws on tens of sources in this field.' Al Aalam Magazine
`It offers information on defence expenditure; military manpower; arms control; nuclear and missile developments; details of peacekeeping operations; maps; and chronologies of key political events.' Managing Information
The book will be useful to scholars and lay readers alike for its detailed, timely summaries of the present economic, political, and strategic scenarios faced by the Government of India ... He presents timely discussions of Indias fluctuating military expenditures, the changing role of the military in domestic disorder, the progression of Indias missile programs, the status of weapons manufactures in India, and other issues. This is extremely useful as such subjects are not well covered in the Indian press.
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–The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics
Shekhar Gupta brilliantly sums up Indias search for a new economic and political identity in the last five years ... The Paper is a lucid and concise account of the evolving economic and political configuration since the fall of the V.P. Singh Government in 1990..
–The Pioneer, New Dehli