U.S. officials believe Levinson, now 64, is being held hostage somewhere in southwest Asia.
Similarly, significant parts of Eastern Europe, East Africa, Southwest Asia, India and Pakistan are unable to receive proper coverage.
Southwest Asia is different from Northeast Asia, and Iraq was a different adversary than Iran or North Korea would be.
The Central Command region covers 55, 000 U.S. troops in much of the Persian Gulf, eastern Africa and parts of southwest Asia.
In this regard, the contrast between Desert Storm in 1991 the first MRC in Southwest Asia and Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 is telling.
One can look at north Africa and southwest Asia today and see the results of the vast income inequities playing itself out there.
In communities and homes from America to southwest Asia, families and friends are coming together to celebrate the hope that comes with renewal.
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The Army needed six brigade sets of prepositioned equipment deployed forward in Europe, Korea, and Southwest Asia with an additional Marine brigade set in Norway.
He has been at the forefront of issues and legislation related to terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, post-Cold War Europe, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia.
In addition, the 2001 QDR explicitly abandoned the focus of prior defense planning documents on two canonical MTWs, one in Southwest Asia and the other in Northeast Asia.
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Gates said at the time that the F-22 was not relevant to counterinsurgency campaigns in Southwest Asia or to the most likely warfighting scenarios the joint force would face in the future.
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Since the two regions of primary concern were Southwest Asia (a resurgent Iraq) and Northeast Asia (an aggressive North Korea), it made sense to measure U.S. forces against the threats posed by their militaries.
However, nobody would seriously consider using a Predator to carry out most of the missions assigned to F-16s, and the U.S. has been conducting unmanned aircraft operations in Southwest Asia for a long time now.
On the other hand, the administration chose to interpret the terrorist challenge through the filter of Cold War experiences, and thus turned what should have been a focused counter-terror campaign into a nation-building crusade in Southwest Asia.
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The U.S. intelligence community and special operations forces will continue to wage a vigorous campaign against the remnants of Al Qaeda, but the period of large-scale U.S. military activity in Southwest Asia is coming to a close.
President Obama won the White House in 2008 mainly because of voter frustration with seemingly endless wars in Southwest Asia, so he has no intention of sustaining the oversized ground forces needed to carry out similar operations in the future.
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The initial formulation was based on the concern that the United States might need to deal with aggression at the same time in both Southwest and Northeast Asia.
Yet the threat of major theater wars in Southwest and Northeast Asia is no less today than it was when the two-major-theater-war standard was articulated some 20 years ago.
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The canonical Southwest and Northeast Asia scenarios remain.
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