CIAO DATE: 7/04

An American Grand Strategy for the Middle East
A Report of the Aspen Strategy Group

Abstract

The Aspen Strategy Group met in Aspen, Colorado from August 2 through August 7, 2003 to examine the contours and complications of American grand strategy in the Middle East. We commissioned and received an unusually exceptional group of papers that helped animate our discussions over the week. The meeting could not have been more timely, given pressing circumstances in Iraq, Afghanistan and, indeed, throughout the Middle East. Our participants, both Aspen Strategy Group members and invited guests, all put enormous effort into tackling the nettlesome issues associated with the formulation and execution of American policy toward this troubled region.

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