President Donald Trump announced yesterday that the U.S. is withdrawing from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) restricting Iranian nuclear development. This could have disastrous consequences for American servicemembers in the Middle East.
Iran has the ability to destabilize the region, and it often does so to promote or protect its interests. This is not unique to the Middle East; other regional powers around the world engage in similar behavior. But Iran is bordered by Afghanistan and Iraq, countries with high concentrations of Americans engaged in long-running nation-building operations. The laws of geopolitical physics make destabilization much easier than stabilization, so Iran can wreak havoc on our efforts with exponentially less investment than we put in, writes Robert Moore, a public policy advisor for Defence Priorities.
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