US strategy unchanged despite troop withdrawal

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US strategy unchanged despite troop withdrawal

16:45, September 06, 2010      

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The U.S. Army in Iraq recently replaced the "Operation Iraqi Freedom" campaign that began in 2003 with "Operation New Dawn." With the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq, some 50,000 U.S. soldiers remaining in Iraq will assume the mission of consulting and training Iraqi security forces.

In fact, the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and the planned withdrawal from Afghanistan are the last resort. Judging from the development of the U.S. global strategy in the 20 years after the Cold War, the United States has mainly digested the fruits of victory in the Cold War and focused on its expansion to the Soviet sphere, saving its power in the first decade.

In the second 10 years, it waged two wars against Afghanistan and Iraq to launch a full expansion. However, as the expansion has currently gone beyond the capacity of the U.S. power, the two protracted wars have shaken the hegemony of the United States.

The United States will not give up the Middle East despite the troop withdrawal. In February 2009, President Obama declared that the new Iraq strategy consisted of three steps. First, the United States would withdraw its troops and end the combat mission in Iraq as of Aug. 31, 2010, and all U.S. troops will withdraw from Iraq by the end of 2011.

Second, the United States would help Iraq establish an independent and responsible government through ongoing diplomatic, political and constructive methods. Third, the United States would start full contact with the countries of the Middle East to improve the security environment of Iraq and the Middle East. This means that the United States will continue to play the role as the main broker in the Middle East.

The United States has withdrawn its troops from Iraq, but its overall strategy has not changed. The Iraq War has ended, but it will not change the U.S. Army's current key strategy, which is suppressing and striking its regional opponents and paying close attention to its potential global opponents.

According to the U.S. Army's review reports, the "regional threat" from Iran and North Korea has attracted a lot of attention. In the Quadrennial Defense Review Report issued in 2010, this threat was especially emphasized. While reviewing this report, the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. military brought forward the two great strategic missions. First, it will completely defeat and destroy the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Second, it will prevent and suppress strategically-significant local conflicts, especially the conflicts with Iran and North Korea. Actually, the U.S. Army has never given up the guard against its potential global opponents, and this is also the reason why the United States has decided to end the two wars.

The later development of the war in Iraq was far beyond the United States' expectations. From the current situation, the United States' original strategic objective of establishing a "democratic Iraq" by force was not realized. People may speculate that in the future, the U.S. military will draw on lessons from the Iraq War and be more careful in terms of overthrowing a regime by force.

However, the "Iraq model," namely taking the measure of sanctioning first and then attacking, may still be an important strategy that the U.S. military can use to deal with its regional rivals in the future. The "National Security Strategy Report" issued by the United States has called for strengthening non-military means, such as sanctions and isolation, to "isolate those countries who challenge or undermine the international order based on the rights and obligations," and to change their international behaviors.

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