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In the four decades since Britain announced it would withdraw from its last military bases "East of Suez," America's joint force has become the main guarantor of security in the Persian Gulf. The growing U.S. role in the region was driven mainly be the need to assure access to the world's biggest
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Date:
12/3/2012
Students of defense studies are routinely assigned Barbara Tuchman’s excellent study of the outbreak of the First World War, The Guns of August. The thrust of Tuchman’s analysis was that the stars were aligned in favor of war. Over a number of years national politics, alliance relationships,
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Date:
8/24/2012
If there is a war at sea in the near future, it will likely be in the Persian Gulf. It is the nexus of the geo-strategic, ideological and religious struggle between Iran on one side and the United States, the West and the non-Shia Muslim world on the other. It is also the one place where Iran can
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Date:
7/7/2010


