Publication

This paper analyzes threats to regional security in the Middle East, taking a US perspective. It deconstructs the threats to regional security and stability in the aftermath of the Iraq invasion of 2003, determines whether the US strategy is tailored to the threat environment and suggests steps to bring strategy and threat environment into closer alignment. The author argues that the US needs to reconnect its strategy, policy and defense planning to regional environments if it is to have any hope of countering threats to its interests.