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The Long War - CENTCOM, Grand Strategy, and Global Security (Hardcover)
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The Long War - CENTCOM, Grand Strategy, and Global Security (Hardcover)
Series: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Series
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Nowhere has the U.S. military established more bases, lost more
troops, or spent more money in the last thirty years than in the
Middle East and Central Asia. These regions fall under the purview
of United States Central Command (CENTCOM); not coincidentally,
they include the most energy-rich places on earth. From its
inception, CENTCOM was tasked with the military and economic
security of this key strategic area, the safeguarding of commercial
opportunities therein, and ultimately the policing of a pivotal yet
precarious space in the broader global economy. CENTCOM calls this
mission its ""Long War."" This book tells the story of that long
war: a war underpinned by a range of entangled geopolitical and
geoeconomic visions and involving the use of the most devastating
Western interventionary violence of our time. Starting with a
historical perspective, John Morrissey explores CENTCOM's Cold War
origins and evolution, before addressing key elements of the
command's grand strategy, including its interventionary rationales
and use of the law in war. Engaging a wide range of scholarship on
neoliberalism, imperialism, geopolitics, and Orientalism, the book
then looks in-depth at the military interventions CENTCOM has
spearheaded and critically assesses their consequences in terms of
human geography. Recent books on CENTCOM have focused on command
structures, intelligence issues, and interpersonal rivalries. In
contrast, The Long War asks critical questions about CENTCOM's
leading role in shaping and enacting U.S. foreign policy over the
last thirty years. The book positions CENTCOM pivotally in the
story of U.S. global ambition over this period by documenting its
efforts to oversee a global security strategy defined in
military-economic terms and enabled via specific legal-territorial
tactics. This is an important new study on the blurring of war and
economic aims on a global scale.
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