The Military and Police Forces of the Gulf States Volume 3

Athol Yates teaches at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi. He teaches internal security, disaster management and public policy. His research interest is the militaries of the UAE. He previously was the Executive Director of the Australian Security Research Centre in Canberra. Cliff Lord served in Britain's Royal Signals during the 1960s as a cipher-operator, in England, Germany, and on active service in Aden and the East Aden Protectorate. Following his military service, Cliff worked in Paris for the Washington Post and later moved to New Zealand, working as computer-operator and a communications-network-controller for Air New Zealand and Team Leader International Operations for the Southern Cross fibre-optics trans-Pacific cable, before retiring. He is Honorary Historian for Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals, and has written more than a dozen books on military history and signals intelligence.