Iraq in the American strategic perspective An analytical study

Abstract

The foreign strategic orientations of the United States of America represent an extension of its supreme interests and national security, and to protect the political, economic and social requirements of the American nation, and to commit and adhere to guaranteeing and protecting them around the world, it has placed at the top of the priorities of its foreign policy to achieve its current and future goals. Iraq and its geostrategic and economic importance are an integral part of its priorities, and were clearly embodied after 2003, when it put in place many mechanisms and tools for Iraq to be a passage to achieve its agendas in the Middle East region.

Despite the change in White House administrations over the past two decades, all of them are committed to the constants of their strategy, although the expression of it differs, as some of them expressed their foreign political behaviour in their relations with it either by employing their military superiority or investing and employing soft power, and their political orientations constitute one of their plans to ensure the achievement of each of their strategic goals, and their continued preservation of their pioneering role in global leadership and hegemony.