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A model of policy analysis, Arms Transfers under Nixon provides a lucid and lively demonstration of how the Nixon administration combined skillful diplomacy and the adroit use of arms transfers to bring about a remarkable series of American foreign policy achievements. The Middle East provides the most dramatic example. Here the Arab-Israeli military balance was stabilized, Egypt was persuaded and enabled to forsake its heavy dependence upon the Soviet Union, conditions favorable to peace negoti.

About the Author

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Noted intelligence analyst and military historian Lewis Sorley is the author of numerous books including A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam, Honorable Warrior: General Harold K. Johnson and the Ethics of Command, and Westmoreland: The General who Lost Vietnam.