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:*Also see the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Doctrine Carter Doctrine] in the ''Wikipedia''.
"This never-superseded doctrine was Carter’s response to the Christmas Day 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which took place just seven weeks after the takeover of the American embassy in Tehran." [http://americanfuture.net/?p=1647]
"When President Carter issued this edict," [[Michael T. Klare]] [http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=11862 wrote] January 14, 2007, for ''TomDispatch.com'', "the United States did not actually possess any forces capable of performing this role in the Gulf. To fill this gap, Carter created a new entity, the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (RDJTF), an ad hoc assortment of U.S-based forces designated for possible employment in the Middle East. In 1983, President [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] transformed the RDJTF into the [[U.S. Central Command|Central Command (CENTCOM)]], the name it bears today. CENTCOM exercises command authority over all U.S. combat forces deployed in the greater Persian Gulf area including Afghanistan and the [[Horn of Africa]]. At present, CENTCOM is largely preoccupied with the wars in [[Iraq]] and Afghanistan, but it has never given up its original role of guarding the oil flow from the Persian Gulf in accordance with the Carter Doctrine."
