Kenneth M. Pollack is a senior fellow of the American Enterprise Institute and a former Middle East military analyst for the CIA. He has written extensively on Arab military history, including the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, most recently in Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness.
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A demonstrator holds a replica missile shell as people gather in support of Iran's attack on Israel in Tehran's Palestine Square.
The troops and vehicles of an Israeli armored brigade are silhouetted as they move along a dirt road between hills in a hazy orange and yellow dawn scene during the Yom Arab-Israeli War in 1973.
An explosion rocks Syrian city of Kobani during a reported suicide car bomb attack by the militants of Islamic State (ISIS) group on a People's Protection Unit (YPG) position in the city center of Kobani, as seen from the outskirts of Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, Oct. 20, 2014.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Trump share a laugh during a cabinet meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House, July 18, 2018 in Washington, DC.
Egyptian army commandos go through a hand-to-hand combat drill at their camp somewhere in the Saudi desert on Nov. 27, 1990. (MIKE SARGENT/AFP/Getty Images)
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - JANUARY 23 : The new King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (L) attends the burying ceremony of the late Saudi King, Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, at Al Oud cemetery in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on January 23, 2015. (Photo by )
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