Thursday 21 August 2014

Finding Sources on the Dhofar Rebellion

I've written extensively about my dissertation about the Dhofar Rebellion. During my initial weeks at my new job, I was basically being paid to do nothing while I waited for a project to be assigned to me. One thing I did to pass the time was to try some new search strings in order to find minor sources about the conflict. The situation in which I find myself is that I've already procured either soft or hard copies of most of the major sources about the conflict. That leaves me to cast a much wider net in order to find minor sources. A couple of searches yielded some unexpected results, primarily in volume of sources but also some new information (to me, at least) in a few specific cases. Here are some of the sources that I found:

Miscellaneous Books
  • The Clouded Lens: Persian Gulf Security and U.S. Policy, pp. 21
  • Britain and Oman: The Dhofar War and its Significance
  • Coup D'état Oman by Ray Kane
  • Dangerous Frontiers: Campaigning in Somaliland and Oman by Bryan Ray
  • Oman's Insurgencies: The Sultanate's Struggle for Supremacy by J.E. Peterson

    Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum
  • Nessen Papers - Q&A about SQBS Meeting with President Ford
  • Memorandum - SQBS Meeting with President Ford
  • Memorandum - Letter from SQBS to President Ford

    Defense Technical Information Center
  • Irregular Pen and Limited Sword - PSYWAR, PSYOP, and MISO in Counterinsurgency
  • Understanding the Complexity of Reconciliation, Reintegration, and Amnesty for the Enemy in Counterinsurgency Warfare
  • The Fight for Oman 1963-1975
  • Revolution from a F.A.R. - The Cuban Armed Forced in Africa and the Middle East
  • The Ascendance of Iran - A Study in the Emergence of an Assertive Iranian Foreign Policy and its Impact on Iranian-Soviet Relations
  • Strategic and Operational Implications of Iranian Military Operations in the Iran-Iraq War
  • Desert Guerrillas - Psychological, Social and Economic Characteristics of the Bedouin which Lend Themselves to Irregular Warfare
  • Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
  • The Role of the Operational Commander in Counterinsurgency
  • Revolution or Realism - United States-Iran Relations in the Post-Cold War Era
  • The Iranian Revolution - A Case Study in Coercive Power Consolidation
  • The Question of Iranian Occupation of the Islands
  • Security Efforts in the Arab World - A Brief Examination of Four Regional Organizations
  • Determinants of Iranian Foreign Policy - The Impact of Systemic, Domestic and Ideologic Factors
  • Insurgency in Iraq - A Historical Perspective
  • Saddam Hussein's Grand Strategy During the Iran-Iraq War
  • Why Insurgents Fail - Examining Post-World War II Failed Insurgencies
  • Oman - Reform, Security, and U.S. Policy
  • Lions in the Path of Stability and Security - Oman's Response to Pressing Issues in the Middle East
  • Working “Through, With, and By” Non-US Actors to Achieve Operational-Level Security Objectives
  • US Strategic Interests in Iran and Saudi Arabia
  • Greece and Oman - Successful Anglo-American Counterinsurgencies Viewed from Current American Counterinsurgency Doctrine
  • Short of General War: Perspectives on the Use of Military Power in the 21st Century
  • A Line in the Sand - A Historical Study of Border Security During Insurgencies
  • United Kingdom Use of Salalah Port, Sultanate of Oman for the Movement of Military Explosives
  • Yemen - A Different Political Paradigm in Context
  • Key Considerations for Irregular Security Forces in Counterinsurgency
  • Coping with a Nuclearizing Iran
  • Operations at the Border - Efforts to Disrupt Insurgent Safe-Havens
  • Defeating David - Looking Beyond a Matched Strategy
  • The Integration of Information Operations into Army Operations During Periods of Unstable Peace and Insurgency
  • Closing the Security Gap - Building Irregular Security Forces
  • Locals Rule - Historical Lessons for Creating Local Defense Forces for Afghanistan and Beyond
  • Iran - Illusion, Reality, and Interests
  • Iran - U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses
  • Generation of Combat Power by Insurgents - An Historical Analysis
  • Military Support to Indirect Security and Stability Surge Operations
  • Khomeini's Incorporation of the Iranian Military
  • Fighting the Global War on Terror Tolerably - Augmenting the Global Counter Insurgency Strategy with Surrogates
  • The British Approach to Counter-Insurgency - Myths, Realities, and Strategic Challenges
  • The Organizational Imperative - Theory and History on Unity of Effort in Counterinsurgency Campaigns
  • Hearts and Minds - Its Evolution and Relevance to Counterinsurgency Campaigns

    RAND Corporation
  • The Soviet Union and Iraq Since 1968
  • Improving U.S. Air Force Readiness and Sustainability

    In addition, one particular search led me to this notification, which then pointed me toward hundreds of declassified diplomatic cables at the National Archives and Records Administration's archival databases. The story of how that came about will be posted to the JTS blog soon.

    My next goal is to search the Marine Corps' website, which has already yielded a few results. More to come as this particular project continues.
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