Six Strategic Challenges
• Energy export capacity and security
• Adjustment of military posture in Iraq, and the Gulf.
• Deciding how to deal with Iranian proliferation, growing asymmetric warfare capabilities, and use of proxies.
• The lack of near-term prospects for a real Arab-Israeli peace process, and potential further military clashes in Lebanon and between Israel and the Palestinians and/or Syria.
• The region-wide impact of Neo-Salafi Islamist extremism. The franchising of Al Qaida, and its impact inside and outside the region.
• Dealing with the war in Afghanistan, potential destabilization of as nuclear Pakistan, and its impact on proliferation and Islamist extremism in the Middle East.
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