TY  - BOOK
AU  - YETIV Steve A
TI  - The absence of grand strategy: the United States in the Persian Gulf 1972-2005
SN  - 9780801887826 (pbk) :
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Baltimore MD
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - UNITED STATES
KW  - FOREIGN RELATIONS
KW  - MIDDLE EAST
KW  - IRAN IRAQ WAR, 1980-1988
KW  - GULF WAR
KW  - IRAQ WAR, 2003-
N2  - Analyses American policy towards Iran and Iraq from the Nixon era to George W. Bush. Concludes that the U.S. did not have a grand strategy in place but rather was more likely to balance against prevailing regional threat
ER  -