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Strategic importance, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. What is of strategic importance to one nation can be of no importance. — a void or wasteland — to another. In a world polarized in a global struggle between Communist and anti-Communist nations, gaining the cooperation or the ability to control even the least strategically important nations might be considered a liability. Strategic importance, however, is to the beholding nation based on a appraisal of elements of strength or weakness which could have a substantial favorable or adverse influence on its own security and well-being. This is more important if there is involved a potential leverage or multiplier result from the initial gain or loss, which would include any so-called ‘domino effect’.
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© 1987 Hafeez Malik
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McGhee, G.C. (1987). The Strategic Importance of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan to the United States. In: Malik, H. (eds) Soviet-American Relations with Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08553-8_2
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