Abstract
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Middle East became the daily focus of Americans watching and engaging in the global war on terrorism. At the forefront of fighting terrorism is the U.S. Central Command. As the tip of the spear in this war, U.S. Army General Tommy Franks led the U.S. Central Command against the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2002, Saddam Hussein in Iraq in 2003, and orchestrated the hunt for transnational terrorists throughout the Middle East and Central Asia. With several successful military campaigns completed before he retired, General Franks fulfilled the former Central Command leader General Norman Schwatzkopf’s assessment a decade earlier: “Central Command is where you can make history.”1
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Notes
General Norman H. Schwartzkopf, 1992, It Doesn’t Take a Hero, New York: Bantam Books, p. 272.
Jay E. Hines, 2000, “From Desert One to Southern Watch: The Evolution of U.S. Central Command,” Joint Forces Quarterly, 24 (Spring): 42–43.
William J. Crowe, 1993, The Line of Fire: From Washington to the Gulf, the Politics and Battles of the New Military, New York: Simon and Schuster, pp. 187–188.
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Robbins, J.S. (2004). U.S. Central Command: Where History is Made. In: Reveron, D.S. (eds) America’s Viceroys. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403979117_7
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