Title Improving Gulf security : a framework to enhance air, missile, and maritime defenses / Dr. Michael S. Bell, Hon. R. Clarke Cooper, Kirsten Fonenrose, Amb (Ret.) Greta Holtz, Amb (Ret.) Richar LeBaron, VADM (Ret.) Fozzie Miller, Commander Daniel Vardiman

Published Washington, DC : Atlantic Council, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (35 pages) : illustrations Contents Foreword. -- Executive summary. -- Action plan and way ahead. -- Assumptions. -- I. Strategic competition in the Gulf and regional threat assessment. -- A. China's strategic approach. -- Russia's strategic approach. -- C. Chinese and Russian military sales in the Middle East. -- D. Iran's strategic approach. -- E. Destabilizing threats from Iran. -- II. An integrated framework for more effective defenses. -- A. Current regional air- and missile-defense capabilities. -- B. Maritime security enironment of the Gulf and the Red Sea. -- C. How integrated air and missile defense would improve collective security. -- D. Strengthening maritime security. -- E. Elements of the architecture. -- F. Challenges to establishing and implementing more effective defenses. -- III. Conclusion. -- Annexes Summary Looking at decades of US support and operations in the Gulf and recognizing a continued, arguably growing, air and maritime threat from Iran, the Atlantic Council Gulf Security Task Force developed a framework on how to best protect US and allies’ interests in this sensitive, always relevant region. The report provides US decision-makers with an updated, fact-based strategy for protecting its interests in the air and maritime domain from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea, while ensuring Gulf partners’ ability to assume this responsibility, with the assistance and leadership of the United States Notes "March 2023." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover page (Atlantic Council, viewed March 19, 2023) Subject Security, International -- Persian Gulf Region International relations Security, International SUBJECT United States -- Relations -- Persian Gulf Region -- 21st century Subject Persian Gulf Region United States Form Electronic book Author Cooper, R. Clarke Fontenrose, Kirsten Holtz, Greta LeBaron, Richard Miller, Fozzie Vardiman, Daniel Atlantic Council of the United States, publisher. ISBN 9781619772724 1619772728

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