IN THE WAKE of the assassination of President Sadat of tagon announced that it was holding military manoeuvres in Egypt. Two 'AWAC surveillance already patrolling Soon thousands of US troops will be stationed in Egypt.
All this is just part of the massive re-arming and forces being carried out by the United States to boost its ability to intervene wherever vital threatened.
The re-arming First the United States is making a determined attempt to achieve nuclear 'first strike' capacity - in other words decisive nuclear superiority over the Soviet Union.
The second is a massive re-furbishing of the US's conventional forces Rapid Deployment tion of the quick-strike Force' which aims to put 100,000 soldiers in the field anywhere in the world within days.
The two prongs of America's war drive are inter-linked.
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In order to understand why America needs this strategy we have to understand where and how its interests are threatened. For the US today there are two crucial 'pressure points': the Middle East and Central America. strategic importance of the Middle East is not hard to understand.
The United States is dependent on oil from the Middle East. Until the Iranian revolution in 1979. the Shah's regime was the kev alv of the United States in the region. the Shah was a massive blow against American interests in the region.
But economicallv it was not such a bow since the United States only received ten per cent of its oil from Iran. Much more important trom an economic point of view is the decrepit Egypt, the Penaircraft are Egyptian skies.
re-deployment of interests are process has two aspects.
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There is no way in which the US will allow Saudi Arabia to be 'lost certain to intervene with its own military forces against such a development From a political point of view, much more direct challenge to US interests is taking place Central Hinchical.
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Tom Marlov