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1980s: CENTCOM and Operation Bright Star
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on December 30, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
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Carter's effort to resolve the          hostage crisis ultimately succeeded after dragging on 444 days
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Iranian                        chose January 20, 1981 as the date to set the hostages free
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the date Carter left office and Ronald Reagan became president
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so Reagan presidency began on a                    note
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some argued that the prospect of dealing with a              Reagan rather than a weak and wimpy Carter persuaded the Ayatollahs to release the hostages
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Reagan has become a          of conservatism
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two themes define the Reagan presidency
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1.                    to the market
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near                        capitalism would trickle down to the benefit of all
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2.                           
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it was imperative for the United States to be the strongest                  power in the world
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"defense is not a              item, you spend what you need"
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increase in military spending, 35% in two terms
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                   bloc was in a state of advanced decay
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military build up facilitated                          in the Greater Middle East
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Carter
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1980, preliminary step towards implementing the              doctrine
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           Deployment Joint Task Force (RDJTF)
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lieutenant General Robert                 , RDJTF commander, stated that his mission was to assure the unimpeded flow of oil from the Arabian Gulf
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freedom was at stake: not freedom as described in the Bill of             , but freedom as lifestyle
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Americans had embraced a lifestyle on                  and consumption
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candidate Reagan insisted that more than ample supplies of oil and                gas were available within the United States itself
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president Reagan affirmed Carter's declaration that the Persian Gulf represented a vital US national                  interest
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Reagan replaced the RDJTF with the United States                Command (CENTCOM)
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the Pentagon now had a permanent agency charged with laying the groundwork for war in the Greater              East
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CENTCOM was a part of a larger plan to have a military presence around the globe:
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USNORTHCOM
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USSOUTHCOM
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USAFRICOM
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USCENTCOM
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USPACOM
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a four-US commander charged with presiding over each designated area of                             
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War Plan             
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joint U.S. army and navy war plans for dealing with a possible war with            during the years between the First and Second World Wars
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influenced much of what the army and navy did between the         
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construction of                             
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stationing of troops
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design of            and planes
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conduct of war games
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CENTCOM was similar to War Plan Orange beginning in the 1980s
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on a more                    scale
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but while War Plan Orange knew who the enemy was, CENTCOM did not have the              of knowing who the enemy would be: Iraq, Iran, Syria, the Soviet Union, etc.
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nor could they assume that the character of any resulting                  would be conventional, e.g. nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons were all a possibility, also unconventional methods were possible such as terrorism and guerrilla acts
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protecting Saudi Arabia was                  number 1 for CENTCOM
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analogous to defending                Europe or South Korea
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and one could be                              comfortable the goals of CENTCOM
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it resembled what the U.S. military had been doing elsewhere for               
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committing the United States to defend Saudi Arabia would soon open up a Pandora's box of unwelcome surprises
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gearing up for war in the Middle          involved:
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negotiating access
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preparing infrastructure
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pre-positioning equipment
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arranging for over flight rights
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permission to use airfields and sea ports
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in 1980,          agreed to allow the Pentagon to use the coastal island of Masirah
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access agreements were also signed with Kenya, Somalia,               , and Egypt
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preparing infrastructure meant
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expanding the capacity of those airfields and            to accommodate a surge in military traffic
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Saudi Arabia constructed a network of airfields and military support facilities with a capacity far in              of what Saudi forces required
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stocking weapons, ammunition, supplies close to the prospective war zone
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Oman, Bahrain, and Israel allowed Pentagon to stockpile equipment and ammunitions on their territory
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Diego             
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one of the last remaining islands of British Empire
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to facilitate it's transfer to a US naval facility, Great Britain expelled the 2000 inhabitants
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example of how the Carter Doctrine triggered an institutional response aimed at facilitating US                          in the Greater Middle East
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in the 1980s, the Reagan Administration invested $1 billion to expand Diego Garcia's air and port                 
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to accommodate the largest strategic                and Navy warships
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the island became a "vital and indispensable platform for projecting American military power"
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Operation              Star
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a series of combined and joint training exercises led by American and                  forces in Egypt
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began in 1980, rooted in the Camp David Accords
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after its signing, the military forces of Egypt and the United States agreed to conduct coalition                  in Egypt
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held every two years up to               

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Events of 1979 That Changed American Foreign Policy
Carter's 1979 Warnings of Dependency on Middle East Oil
1980s: CENTCOM and Operation Bright Star
1980s: The United States, Iran and Iraq