Kenneth M. Pollack

Kenneth M. Pollack has been an expert on Middle Eastern military and political affairs for over thirty years. He has served as a Persian Gulf Military analyst at the CIA and Director for Persian Gulf Affairs at the NSC. A longtime Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution, where he ran the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, he is currently a Resident Scholar of the American Enterprise Institute. His books on the politics and military of the Middle East include the bestsellers The Threatening...See more

Kenneth M. Pollack has been an expert on Middle Eastern military and political affairs for over thirty years. He has served as a Persian Gulf Military analyst at the CIA and Director for Persian Gulf Affairs at the NSC. A longtime Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution, where he ran the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, he is currently a Resident Scholar of the American Enterprise Institute. His books on the politics and military of the Middle East include the bestsellers The Threatening Storm, Arabs at War, and its sequel The Persian Puzzle. See less