The United States as a Middle Eastern power
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2022.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : American power in the Middle East rests on CENTCOM, the military command in charge of planning American wars in the region since the 1980s. This article traces the sequence of decisions that began with the American reaction to the fall of the Shah of Iran and led to the creation of CENTCOM in 1983. These military policy decisions are contextualized with regard to America’s strategic interest in the Persian Gulf, chiefly the flow of oil not to the United States itself—given that the US imported relatively little of that oil—but to America’s European allies, who were extremely dependent on this resource to meet their energy needs.
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American power in the Middle East rests on CENTCOM, the military command in charge of planning American wars in the region since the 1980s. This article traces the sequence of decisions that began with the American reaction to the fall of the Shah of Iran and led to the creation of CENTCOM in 1983. These military policy decisions are contextualized with regard to America’s strategic interest in the Persian Gulf, chiefly the flow of oil not to the United States itself—given that the US imported relatively little of that oil—but to America’s European allies, who were extremely dependent on this resource to meet their energy needs.
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