While recent U.S. naval exercises to improve rapid response capabilities in the Pacific are prudent at this time, they should be made in conjunction with an upgrade of Middle East military forces.
Their idea of putting U.S. forces in the middle of this conflict is sheer lunacy.
Meanwhile, the consumer is caught in the middle while these two competing forces try to minimize their expenditures.
Keane was vice chief of staff of the Army, and Hoar commanded all U.S. forces in the Middle East.
Michael DeLong, the former deputy chief of U.S. forces in the Middle East.
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Saudi Arabia has been one of the most radicalizing forces in the Middle East at the same time that it has been the steady engine behind the world's oil economy.
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The US military says that things are on track for the whole country to be under the control of Iraqi forces by the middle of next year - with US units in support.
But the personal envoy he is sending this weekend to the region, Anthony Zinni, a retired marine general and a former commander of American forces in the Middle East, has been told to stick around until a ceasefire is arranged.
David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq who has been nominated to head American forces in the Middle East, said Thursday he hopes to make recommendations for further troop reductions in Iraq before he moves to his new post in September.
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On paper, Iraq still has one of the Middle East's biggest armed forces.
Britain had pulled its military forces out of the Middle East after the decision to retreat from east of Suez in the 1960s.
His spending program, known locally as the Economic Transformation Plan, is a bid to drag Malaysia out of the so-called middle-income trap, which forces many emerging economies to compete with each other in producing cheap exports instead of developing more-sophisticated, value-added products.
Structural forces, which include growing middle classes in emerging economies and a greater demand for proteins, along with economic considerations such as the quality of feed quality used to increase productivity play a role.
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Indeed, there are any number of military systems and forces that current events in the Middle East suggest the United States must retain, should acquire or ought to improve.
Biden stressed a commitment to reach peace in the Middle East and draw down U.S. forces in Iraq.
Lynch mentioned Operation Scales of Justice, the beefed-up presence of forces in Baghdad that started in the middle of the last month.
Having protected your forces, you could attack in strength, down the middle.
And our duty is now clear: For the sake of our long-term security, all free nations must stand with the forces of democracy and justice that have begun to transform the Middle East.
The US and Europe should also understand that if an out-of-control situation in Syria causes the situation in the entire Middle East to go out of control, hits energy supplies and breeds extremist forces, this will benefit no one.
And then on the Middle East again -- is the U.S. fearful about Israeli ground forces entering Gaza?
The Atlantic Force, with primary responsibility for Europe and the Middle East, consisted of a relatively small set of units providing forward presence backed up by heavy conventional forces, including a large ground contingent.
And now even the Brits are starting to say that they really want to cut their forces from the 8, 000 or so they have down to about 3, 000 by the middle of next year.
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