Saudi-US Relations    In the military field 1968 - 1981

Sefa Abdul Wahab, Dr.; Semirah Ismaeel Hasson, Dr.; Widad Khudeir Husein, Dr.

	Saudi-US Relations In the military field 1968 - 1981
Journal of The Thi Qar Arts
Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 198-213
Authors
dr. sefa abdul wahab; dr. semirah ismaeel hasson; dr. widad khudeir husein
Abstract
After our study of military relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom and U.S. attempts to gain access to a minimum of autonomy armament and how to deal with sophisticated weapons offer the most important results of research and monitoring as follows: 1 - The extent and size of the U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia to justify clearly Maigrrh planners of military policy and constitute as "major" in the policies of the sales of conventional military of the United States as well as decide the form of credit policy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the West because the efforts of the networks equipped military the important and long-term guarantee policy response to the Kingdom under U.S. policies in the general area Persian Gulf. 2 - Saudi Arabia has realized that the qualitative changes in military capabilities is a good way to modify its foreign policy mechanisms that are designed to also "to find the plans to upgrade its defense capabilities. 3 - that the policies of the U.S. military equipment to Saudi Arabia not be an obstacle "to achieving its goals in the region and can be assured that the expenditures in the economic policy of military equipment offset the political benefits for the most part. 4 - some of the events Kghazo Communist Party of Afghanistan (1979) and the revolution in Iran (1979) and the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) imposed some pressure serious relationships arms Saudi Arabia with the United States in particular at the negotiating position between them and the strategic directions of the U.S. in the Arab region in general and the Persian Gulf in particular and the way that impose a calendar for future processing of the policies of the U.S. military in the Persian Gulf. 5 - The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is fully aware that "the weight (GCC) has landed its importance to a large extent since the beginning of the collapse of the concepts of Arab national security after the Arab wars of Zionism in 1967 and in 1973, the Iranian revolution and Iran-Iraq war and therefore must have to balance carefully between each Maitalq issues of arms control and security and interests with the Western world because it failed to impose decisive influence on some Arab countries like Egypt, not to mention the failure of the Saudi government to distinguish between the intentions of the Americans and their abilities with the use of its resources to promote the interests of the West and its role in U.S. strategy. 6 - indicates that the relations in the armament often to the delicate balance of power between buyers and suppliers of weapons and have become competitive aspects of the arms. Also, U.S. interests in Saudi Arabia in arms issues are highly strategic matters for the wider Arabian Gulf as well as the issue of Arab-Israeli conflict and processes that are related to the war will not stop processing the military policies for the development of the broader goals of U.S. policy in the Persian Gulf. 7 - that of the basic motivations of the United States from behind the policy-equipped military of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is to increase its political influence and to strengthen military ties are stronger with the West and to identify Western attempts to find relationships developed because the policy-equipped military of the important means in U.S. policy and can not be separated from the importance of the Kingdom Saudi Arabia in the policies of processing Military Bank and in particular Maitalq which attempts to increase the proportion of agencies, ranked locally, "under license. but these attempts have not achieved the desired results significantly, although the possibilities of Saudi Arabia in providing foreign currency and the approval of the Americans on the terms of the buyback, which has become a traditional formula of the agreements armament between the Kingdom Saudi Arabia and the United States.

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