The Usages of War: U.S. Foreign Policy in Southwest Asia 1967-2001

The Usages of War:  U.S. Foreign Policy in Southwest Asia 1967-2001

Gulf Wars

Introduction

The Trucial Coast Redux                                 pg. 4

Saudi Arabia and the Arc of Crisis                  pg. 10

Iraq in a “hundred years war”                          pg. 19

Why now?                                                       pg. 37

Eastward Bound

The Traders                                                      pg. 48

The Warriors                                                    pg. 55

The Plan                                                           pg. 59

“The Disastrous Rise of Misplaced Power”     pg. 66

The Inevitable                                                  pg. 77

On the Absurd                                                  pg. 82

Bibliography                                                    pg. 92

**This was my Plan of Concentration, written under Jerry Levy, in Spring 2010, at Marlboro College