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Arms and Oil: U.S. Military Strategy and the Persian Gulf

Arms and Oil: U.S. Military Strategy and the Persian Gulf

McNaugher, Thomas L.

Paperback

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Military History

ISBN10: 0815756232
ISBN13: 9780815756231
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: Apr 1 1985
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.05
Language: English

In 1979, after a decade of enormous increases in the price of oil, U.S. influence in the oil-rich Persian Gulf region declined sharply. Early in the year the Iranian revolution replaced the shah, the principal pro-American leader in the region, with rulers hostile to the United States and to its remaining friends around the Gulf. In December Soviet troops moved into Afghanistan, bringing the Soviets closer to the Gulf and the Indian Ocean. In the United States these events spurred the announcement of the Carter Doctrine and the creation of a new military command to handle Gulf crises. Yet the United States established no new fighting forces, and U.S. friends around the Gulf proved less willing than the shah of Iran to host a U.S. military presence. Thus debate has continued about whether and how the United States can secure important interests in the Gulf region.

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