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Article: The Middle East and its neighbors: A most dangerous year
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- Sea Power
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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CopyrightCopyright Navy League of the United States Jan 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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For the Middle East, 1998 was a complex, difficult year, one in which U.S. policy was frustrated at several turns and seemingly illdefined or unfocused in others, in which Saddam Hussein's defiance of U.N. inspections continued to a point at which U.S. armed retaliation seemed all but inevitable. Saddam backed down, once again, in mid-Novemberbut one month later Operation Desert Fox started and the already confused situation became much more so. Certainly there are lessons to be learned from the security challenges faced by the United States in the region in 1998: the difficulty of even the "world's sole remaining superpower" controlling events if it cannot hold its former coalition ...
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