Arabia the Gulf and the West Author:J. B. Kelly When first published, this book was hailed as an indispensable guide for understanding a much misunderstood region. Kelly discusses in rich and fascinating detail the nations of the Persian Gulf on which the West's security and oil supplies now more than ever depend - their political regimes and politics, their economies, and the mindsets of... more » their leaders. The book also tells for the first time the full story of how the West's supine policies deliberately pulled us out of the region and led inevitably to a dangerous power vacuum in the world's most important strategic area - a vacuum that the West has now felt it necessary to fill by force of arms.« less