1. Alan Munro, “Defence Issues in the Gulf”, Asian Affairs Vol. 28, No. 2 (June 1997), p. 198.
2. Richard K. Herrmann and R. William Ayers, “The New Geo-Politics of the Gulf: Forces for Change and Stability,” in The Persian Gulf at the Millenium: Essays in Politics, Economy, Security, and Religion, Eds. Gary G. Sick and Lawrence G. Potter (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), p. 37.
3. Jon B. Alterman, “The Gulf States and the American Umbrella”, in Crises in the Contemporary Persian Gulf, Ed. Barry Rubin (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass Publishers, 2002), p. 163.
4. Ibid, p. 163.
5. quoted by Kenneth Pollack, The Persian Puzzle, The Conflict Between Iran and America (New York: Random House, 2004), p. 103.