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Bridging the Gulf? America’s ‘Rebalance’ and the Middle East Challenge to the UK
Doug Stokes and Paul NewtonRUSI Journal, 18 March 2014
UK Defence Policy, United States, Americas, Global Strategy and Commitments, UK, UK Defence, Europe, Central and South Asia, Middle East and North Africa
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Sir Paul Newton spent thirty-eight years in the British Army. Educated at Sandhurst - and later at Camberley, then Cambridge University... read more
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Doug Stokes is a Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI and professor of International Security and Strategy at the University of Exeter.
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