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This subcourse is the second subcourse in a series covering Northeast Africa and South and Southwest Asia. We designed this subcourse to teach you the basic background information of selected countries of Southwest Asia. Contained within this subcourse are instructions on how to recognize the general characteristics and historical perspectives of Southwest Asia and the strategic significance of the region. Furthermore, there are instructions on militarycapabilities, history, weather, terrain, and lines of communications (LOCs) of Bahrain, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Syhria, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Yemen.
There are no prerequisities for this subcourse.
This subcourse relfects the doctrine which was current at the start of Operation Desert Storm. To supplement the data paresented in this subcourse, we recommend the use of other sources (classified or unclassified) of information.
Unless otherwise states, the masculine gender of singular pronouns is used to refer to both men and women.