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Other options. Close drawer menu Financial Times International Edition. Search the FT Search. World Show more World. Thus, the only safe exit ramp for U. But as long as those two countries are in a state of conflict, U. The United States does not, however, need to maintain all the forces it currently stations in the Persian Gulf once U.
A quick tour of the Gulf horizon suggests the United States should maintain its modest military presence in Bahrain unless its presence becomes a major source of instability. If the United States is going to maintain regular offshore naval deployments in the Arabian Sea, as it should, pulling up stakes in Bahrain would not be prudent or cost effective.
Downsizing some bases and trimming military personnel in Kuwait, the UAE, and Qatar would be justified by the end of U.
These recommendations are based on our judgment that strategic and financial benefits of removing all U. It also enables a swift response to a range of military contingencies. These modest drawdowns will be criticized as too timid by advocates of military retrenchment while hawks on Iran will attack any withdrawals as a U. This very basic stance will ensure the United States is not caught unprepared in an area where it still has important—if diminishing—interests and which could offer unpleasant surprises as long as the United States and Iran have a hostile relationship.
Pulling out all U. With troops to depart on Sept. Shusha was the key to the recent war between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Now Baku wants to turn the fabled fortress town into a resort. Argument An expert's point of view on a current event. Army troops from the 10th Mountain Division collect their duffels after returning from a nine-month deployment in Afghanistan to Fort Drum, New York, on Dec. April 16, , AM. Leaving Afghanistan What happens to the country and its people after the forever war ends?
More on this topic. The champions of U. Argument Rajan Menon. Biden Is Done with Afghanistan. Is Afghanistan Done With America? Argument Elise Labott. Argument Michael Kugelman. This "Cited by" count includes citations to the following articles in Scholar.
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