The Military and Police Forces of the Gulf States, Volume 3, covers the military, police, and selected para-military services of Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar from early 20th Century until 2010. Great Britain and these three states have had various mutual defence treaties since centuries. This resulted in establishment of very close ties between the British and the Sultan of Oman's armed forces. Since 1920s, the British seconded and contract personnel served with the latter services through forming, leading, advising and training them. AUTHOR: Athol Yates teaches at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi. He teaches internal security, disaster management and public policy. His research interest is the militaries of the UAE. He previously was the Executive Director of the Australian Security Research Centre in Canberra. Cliff Lord was a cipher operator in Britain's Royal Signals during the 1960s, serving in England and Germany and on active service in South Arabia. He is Honorary Historian for the Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals. Cliff is coauthor of numerous books and articles on military history. The books include: Swift and Sure: A History of the Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals and Army Signalling in New Zealand, New Zealand Army Distinguishing Patches 1911-1991 (2 vols), The Armed Forces of Aden 1831-1967, ANZAC Elite: The Airborne & Special Forces Insignia of Australia & New Zealand, and The Royal Corps of Signals: Unit Histories of the Corps (1920-2001) and its Antecedents. Cliff is a Team Leader at the Southern Cross Cable Network Operations Centre, Auckland, which is run by Telecom New Zealand. 175 b/w photos, 26 colour photos, 5 b/w maps, 1 colour map, 36 colour artworks, 17 tables
Author Biography:
Athol Yates teaches at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi. He teaches internal security, disaster management and public policy. His research interest is the militaries of the UAE. He previously was the Executive Director of the Australian Security Research Centre in Canberra. Cliff Lord served in Britain's Royal Signals during the 1960s as a cipher-operator, in England, Germany, and on active service in Aden and the East Aden Protectorate. Following his military service, Cliff worked in Paris for the Washington Post and later moved to New Zealand, working as computer-operator and a communications-network-controller for Air New Zealand and Team Leader International Operations for the Southern Cross fibre-optics trans-Pacific cable, before retiring. He is Honorary Historian for Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals, and has written more than a dozen books on military history and signals intelligence.
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