Landpower and Dual Containment: Rethinking America's Policy in the Gulf,

Abstract

The author of this study contends that America's Dual Containment policy has failed. He outlines in what way he thinks that it has, and suggests alternative polices, which he believes might prove successful, and which would not destablize the Gulf-the risk that (in the author's view) we are now running. By a combination of economic sanctions and more forcible methods, America has sought, through Dual Containment, to make Iran and Iraq ammend behavior that the United States believes it cannot tolerate. In the case of Iraq, America finds actions of the leadership so abhorent that nothing less than a complete regime change is demanded. The United States wants Iran to give up its alleged support for terrorism.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA372058

Entities

People

  • Stephen C. Pelletiere

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Economic Sanctions
  • Economic Systems
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • International Relations
  • Middle East
  • National Security
  • Persian Gulf
  • Personnel Management
  • Political Science
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Security
  • Terrorists
  • United States
  • United States Central Command
  • War
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation and International Security
  • Strategic Security Studies