A military specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs draws upon the literature as well as his own extensive experience in the region to describe the importance of culture in Arab societies and what it means for unconventional warfare.--Ed. John Keegan observed in his landmark book Face of Battle, "that war is always an expression of culture, often an determinant of social forms, in some societies the culture itself." John Lynn continued this theme in a more nuanced fashion in Battle: A History Combat and Culture. To be specific, just as there is an American way of war, as explained by Russell F. Weigley, there is an Arab way of war which has been more broadly described as the 'eastern way of war" by historians such as Victor Davis Hanson.