The Absence of Grand Strategy: The United States in the Persian Gulf, 1972-2005

Abstract

Analyzing the evolution of the United States\u27 foreign policy in the Persian Gulf from 1972 to 2005, Yetiv offers a provocative and panoramic view of American strategies in a region critical to the functioning of the entire global economy. Ten cases―from the policies of the Nixon administration to George W. Bush\u27s war in Iraq―reveal shifting, improvised, and reactive policies that were responses to unanticipated and unpredictable events and threats. In fact, the distinguishing feature of the U.S. experience in the Gulf has been the absence of grand strategy… [From Amazon.com]https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/politicalscience_geography_books/1018/thumbnail.jp