The Long Game (33 page)

   
in Jordan,
139

   
in Libya,
98

   
of Qaddafi,
97
,
160

   
transatlantic,
167

Selma, Alabama,
227

Shultz, George,
223

Sinai,
119

skepticism,
225–226

Slaughter, Anne-Marie,
13

SOFA.
See
Status of Forces Agreement

South Korea,
55

Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA),
74

Stevens, Chris,
112–113

stimulus package,
53

style, governing,
23–24

sustainability,
218–220

Syria

   
airstrikes in,
3
,
153

   
Assad regime in,
159

   
challenges in,
128
,
139–140

   
chemical weapons concern in,
8–11

   
civil war in,
1

   
Clinton, H., advocating for,
141

   
Congress decision about,
6–7
,
14–16

   
controlling borders of,
138

   
crisis in,
xx
,
1–8
,
127–128

   
debate about,
137

   
disposing weapons from,
18–19

   
help with,
145–147

   
humanitarian support in,
138

   
Kerry in,
4
,
17–19

   
military power in,
142–144

   
no-fly zone in,
154

   
non-lethal combat in,
140–141

   
peaceful outcome in,
7
,
19
,
23–24

   
in retrospect,
153–155

   
Russia relationship with,
17
,
172–173
,
179

   
supporters of,
139–140

   
transition in,
128–129

   
using caution in,
144–145

   
weapons in,
132

“Syria Track,”
155

“Syriaq,”
151

Taliban,
71–72

Tallinn, Estonia,
166

Tantawi, Mohammed,
117

Tea Party,
209

Tehran,
183–184

terrorism

   
Al Qaeda,
144

   
anti-, strategies for,
xvi

   
counter-,
51
,
52
,
75
,
78
,
118
,
123
,
162

   
fears of,
xix

   
ISIS,
150

   
in Israel,
190–191

   
in Libya,
23
,
102
,
112–113

   
in Middle East,
54
,
57

   
in Pakistan,
69

   
risk associated with,
150

Thomas, Evan,
205

“three D's,”
53

Tiergarten,
62

Todd, Chuck,
9

TPP.
See
Trans-Pacific Partnership

transatlantic security forces,
167

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP),
56

Traub, James,
66–67

Tripoli,
111

troops, military

   
in Afghanistan,
70

   
in Iraq,
152

   
numbers of,
51
,
70

   
Pentagon wanting of,
81–82

   
strategies for,
78

   
in Ukraine,
167–168

   
in Vietnam War,
229

   
withdrawal of,
74–75

Truman National Security project,
38

Trump, Donald,
209

Tunisia

   
Ambassador to,
106

   
political upheaval in,
89–90

Turkey,
139

Ukraine

   
crisis in,
148–149
,
166–170

   
debate about,
174–176

   
European relationship with,
168–169
,
178–179

   
lethal assistance to,
175–176

   
military power in,
167–170

   
Russia relationship with,
162
,
172

   
support for,
168–170
,
174–175

   
troops in,
167–168

   
See also
Kiev

US-Korea Free Trade agreement,
56

V-22 Osprey,
192

Vance, Cyrus,
82
,
85

Vietnam War

   
America during,
3
,
45

   
Iraq compared to,
213
,
215

   
troops in,
229

Warsaw Pact,
33–34

Washington playbook

   
criticism of,
23

   
foreign policy in,
xii

   
in Iran deals,
201

   
strength in,
45

Watergate,
45

weapons

   
in Assad regime,
132

   
cyber,
206

   
delivery of,
122–123

   
in Egypt,
118
,
121

   
in Gulf Arab states,
197

   
in Iran,
182
,
189–190

   
in Iraq,
22

   
in Israel,
192
,
197–198

   
Javelin anti-tank missiles,
176

   
in Syria,
132

   
See also
chemical weapons

West Point,
72

White House

   
during Arab Spring,
90

   
power of,
83–84

   
situation room,
ix
,
96

Zakaria, Fareed,
205

D
EREK
C
HOLLET
served in senior positions during the Obama administration at the White House, State Department, and Pentagon, most recently as the US assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. He is currently a counselor and senior adviser at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, an adjunct senior research scholar at Columbia University's Institute of War and Peace Studies, and a regular contributor to
Defense One
and many other publications. His previous books include
America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11,
coauthored with James Goldgeier, and
The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World,
coedited with Samantha Power. He lives in Washington, DC, with his family. Credit:
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