Foreword by Walter L. Cutler
About the Author
Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue—History in the Making: A Portrait of King Abd al-Aziz Saud
Part 1: Diplomacy of an Air Base
1. Troubled U.S.-British Cooperation
2. Early Presidential Assurances and the Arab Call to Unity
Part 2: The Restless Search for Boundaries
3. The Eleven Year of King Saud: Cold War and Area Pressures
4. Saud Besieged: Nasser, Dhahran Airfield, and Faisal
Part 3: Collapse of an Ancient System
5. Buildup to Confrontation: Egypt, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia
6. Yemen: Collapse of an Ancient System
Part 4: Violence and Mediation
7. The 1963 Bunker Mission and Beyond
8. Operation Hardsurface and the UN Observer Mission in Yemen
9. The Deposing of King Saud: Faisal's Accession
Epilogue
Postscript
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

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A U.S. diplomat's eyewitness account of the origins and evolution of America's security relationship with Saudi Arabia.

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Parker T. Hart is a retired Career Minister of the United States Foreign Service and former assistant secretary of state for Near East and South Asian affairs. He has served as U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Turkey. His other diplomatic posts have included minister to the Yemen and director of the Foreign Service Institute. He is author of Two NATO Allies at the Threshold of War.

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