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The Middle East, oil, and the U.S. national security policy intractable conflicts, impossible solutions

The text focuses on three interrelated subject areas that are at the heart of the current foreign and national security dilemma: the Middle East, energy policy, and military manpower policy. Remedying these obvious cases of policy dysfunction would create opportunities for less confrontational, adve...

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Main Author: Snow, Donald M. 1943- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham Rowman & Litlefield [2016]
Subjects:
National security > United States
Energy policy > United States
Security, International
United States > Foreign relations > Middle East
United States > Military policy
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Table of Contents:
  • The foreign and national security inheritance: the Cold War paradigm
  • Military manpower: who serves his (or her) country
  • Energy and policy determination: oil addiction and its consequences
  • A return to energy independence and its consequences: shale oil and gas
  • The vexatious Middle East
  • The U.S. posture in the Middle East
  • One size doesn't fit all: policy toward very different places
  • Moving ahead: time for a change

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