Original training manuals from the U.S. Army School Intelligence Department

United States Army School, Europe - Intelligence Department. Strategic Survey of the Middle East. (And:) Middle East - Sociological Factors.

€ 950,00

Two original training manuals from the Intelligence Department of the U.S. Army School, Europe, covering the strategic location, history, politics, and religious background of the Middle East, as seen through the eyes of American intelligence officers in September 1962.

The "Strategic Survey" manual states: "Long a trouble spot on the world map, the Middle East has been even more conspicuously so since World War II. Today, the whole area comprising Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordam, Iraw, Iran and Saudi Arabia, is in a state of ferment [...]". The booklet further discusses the individual problems of various states and regions and contains a tabular "fact sheet".

A separate manual investigates the sociological factors of the Middle East: "The twentieth century is witnessing a rising influence of the Islamic world. A vast area, comprising over three hundred million people, is slowly awakening from an economic and social stalemate which has left it far behind western standards. An ever increasing demand for social and economic changes inevitably move the Islamic world to new forms of society which are bound to have a profound impact upon western interests in the part of the world [...]". Discusses the Islamic faith, Holy War (Jihad), Muslim sects and minorities in the Islamic world, the role of women, festivals, etc.

In excellent state of preservation.