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American Security Interests
In The Middle East and their Defense

Air War College
Maxwell, Alabama, U S A, 1980

 

 

        DISCLAIMER

        AIR WAR COLLEGE RESEARCH REPORT SUMMARY

        BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

        REAPPRAISAL OF U.S. SECURITY INTERESTS AT A TIME OF CHANGE

        THE MILITARY AND POLITICAL DEFENSE OF OIL

             Psychology Gap

             Can Force be Used?

             Political Objections to the Use of Force

             The Political Defense of Oil

        SUPERPOWER RIVALRIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST:

          THE CONCEPTUAL DEBATE

             The Context

             Strategic Concepts

                  Containment

                  The Nixon Doctrine

        THE STRUGGLE FOR THE PERIPHERY

             The PDRY in the Soviet Orbit

                  History of Soviet Penetration

                  PDRY Impact on Peninsular Stability

             Soviet Opportunism in the Horn of Africa

                  Changing Alliances in the Horn

                  The Unsolved Problem of Eritrea

                  Ethiopia as an "African Cuba"

             Takeover in Afghanistan

                  Twenty-fiveYears of Soviet Effort

                  Consolidating Communism

        THE STRUGGLE FOR THE HEARTLANDS

             Egypt

                  The Current Balance Sheet

             Libya

             Iraq

             Syria

        THREATS TO REGIONAL STABILITY

             The Arab-Israeli Conflict

             Inter-Arab Confrontations

             Arab-Iranian Relations

             Revolutionism in Iran

             The Impact of Modernization

        A NEW REGIONAL STRATEGY:

           SCOPE FOR U.S.-SAUDI COOPERATION

             Declining Superpower Control

             A More Assertive U.S. Posture

             U.S.-Saudi Partnership

             The Problem of Palestine

        CONCLUSIONS

        NOTES

        BIBLIOGRAPHY