"Introduction: As President Obama enters his second term with a new Cabinet, the foreign policy legacy of the past four years weighs heavily on their strategic decisions and their empire-building efforts. Central to the analysis of the next period is an evaluation of the past policies especially in regions where Washington expended its greatest financial and military resources, namely the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa.....
In sum, the past military commitments, the links to Israel, the legacies of
political failures in Iraq and Afghanistan and the fragility of new client
rulers mean that the OKH regime will play an increasingly marginal
economic role in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. The
Obama-Kerry-Hagel troika will do their best to salvage the US military bases and
political influence among autocratic petro-states in the Gulf."
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