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U.S. Strategy and Policy in the Middle East

Testimony by Philip H. Gordon

January 20, 2016

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Before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Philip H. Gordon argues that the Middle East today is going through a period of powerful, tectonic change that the United States did not create and cannot fully control.

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