Prize-winning historian Lawrence Freedman takes an exceptionally
clear-eyed look at America's strategic predicament in the Middle
East, over the past 30 years. The United States is locked into
three prolonged conflicts without much hope of early resolution.
Iran is pursuing a nuclear programme; the aftermath of the
overthrow of Saddam Hussein has seen unrelenting intercommunal
violence; and the Taliban have got back into Afghanistan. Lawrence
Freedman teases out the roots of each engagement over the last
thirty years and demonstrates with clarity and scholarship the
influence of these conflicts upon each other. The story is complex
and often marked by great drama. First, the countries in dispute
with America are not themselves natural allies; second, their
enmity was not, at first, America's choice. Third, the region's
problems cannot all be traced to the Arab-Israeli dispute. Unique
in its focus, this book will offer not only new revelations but
also remind us of what has been forgotten or has never been put in
context.
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