traditions, history and aspirations of the people of the region themselves, not a Western guess at them; one that recognizes that reform and stability are not mutually exclusive but mutually reinforcing—and ultimately mutually essential. Allegation of espionage A U.S. government indictment alleged that Pollack provided information to former American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) employees Steve J. Rosen and Keith Weissman during the AIPAC espionage scandal. In April 2009, the indictment was dropped. Books Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991, University of Nebraska Press, 2002, Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq, Random House, 2002, The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America, Random House, 2004, Things Fall Apart: Containing the Spillover from an Iraqi Civil War, with Daniel L. Byman, Brookings Institution Press, 2007, A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East, Random House, 2008, Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy, Simon & Schuster, 2013, Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness, Oxford University Press, 2018, References External links Biography from the Brookings Institution 1966 births Living people 20th-century American Jews Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Place of birth missing (living people) People of the Central Intelligence Agency Yale University alumni Brookings Institution people