Monday, July 25, 2011

Mercenaries

I am re-reading Fred Halliday's "Mercenaries: Counter-insurgency in the Gulf".  It is a little known book from the 1970s.  Read about the Omani case.  How the Western world (and its regional clients) rallied to counter the Dhofar rebellion.  It has lessons for today.  Egyptian revolutionary comrades should be reading it.