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...defense commitment to NATO, although small alteration are always possible. Much of the rest, and most of the Air Force, is based in the U.S. The Navy patrols all the world's major bodies of water, including vital areas rarely in the news-such as the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf, where the major crisis could cripple the industrial world...
...about whether the jets had actually arrived in Iraq (Baghdad said no, and Paris would not comment), there was little debate about the stakes involved. The influx of new weaponry threatened to escalate the Iran-Iraq war, which in turn could disrupt the supply line of oil from the Persian Gulf...
...government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini left no doubt of how it views the new development. "The Persian Gulfs jugular vein is in our hands," declared Iranian state radio. "Should an attempt be made to use the planes to damage Iran's vital resources, Iran would turn the Strait of Hormuz into a quagmire for the West's imperial objectives." Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Speaker of the Iranian parliament, put it more chillingly. If Tehran bottles up the gulf, he warned, "the West will have a very cold winter...
...Koumintang in China against its internal communist enemies. Periodically, as with the Korean war, local quarrels threaten to escalate to world wars. Today Soviet and American military planners share the view that once the superpowers become involved war will spread, and they see the explosive politics around the Persian Gulf as the most likely origin of the next great...
...Persian Gulf equation...