America's War For The Greater Middle East: A Military History - Plot & Excerpts
troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, President Obama said, “We take comfort in knowing that the tide of war is receding.”1 In fact, the tide was not receding. Although Obama’s efforts to extricate the United States from Iraq and Afghanistan attracted understandable attention, they tell the lesser part of the story. In other quarters of the Islamic world, the range of U.S. military activities was actually expanding. Even as it sought to convey the impression of striking out boldly in new directions, the Obama administration’s chief contribution to the War for the Greater Middle East was to enlarge it.During the Obama era, the United States initiated military action on many fronts across the Islamic world. Some of those actions marked a return to sites of earlier interventions. Others occurred in locales that the U.S. military had previously considered unimportant and sought to avoid. Having for political reasons jettisoned the phrase “global war on terrorism,” the new administration grouped its various and sundry military campaigns under the blandly generic heading of “overseas contingency operations.”What distinguished these campaigns was the absence of any unifying aim or idea.
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