THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Anik Joshi) - The End of the Carter Doctrine
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Foreign Affairs The End of the Carter Doctrine Do Americans still believe in the importance of the Persian Gulf region? After the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the United States under President Jimmy Carter decided to take a more active role in the region. This manifested in numerous ways, among them the birth of the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force, which later evolved into CENTCOM. This led to the establishment of the Carter Doctrine: Carter’s National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, helped draft Carter’s State of the Union address that stated “An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf…Open