Obama Middle East Strategy Study

Prepared by the Special Maintain Our Flexibility/Deniability Team

June 12, 2014
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RUSSIA
CYPRUS
JORDAN
ISRAEL
GREECE
ARMENIA
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PAK.
KUWAIT
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Provisional
administrative line
West Bank
Golan
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not necessarily authoritative.
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Lambert Conformal Conic Projection,
standard parallels 12N and 38N
Golan Heights is Israeli-occupied Syria.
West Bank is Israeli-occupied with current status subject to
the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement; permanent status
to be determined through further negotiation.
The status of the Gaza Strip is a final status issue to be
resolved through negotiations.

Israel proclaimed Jerusalem as its capital in 1950, but the
US, like nearly all other countries, maintains its Embassy in
Tel Aviv-Yafo.
Socotra
Administrative
boundary
Bucharest
Sofia
Baku
Ankara
Ashgabat Athens
Damascus
Baghdad
Amman
Cairo
Kuwait
City
Manama
Riyadh
Muscat
Khartoum
Sanaa
Asmara
Addis Ababa
Krasnodar
Istanbul
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Adana
Aleppo
Kirkuk
Al Basrah
Jerusalem
Tel Aviv-
Yafo
Alexandria
Mecca
Massawa Kassala
Jeddah
Port Sudan
Aswan
Port
Said
Aden
Taizz
Abadan
Mosul
Ahvaz
Mashhad
Zahedan
Esfahan
Mary
Herat
Buxoro
Groznyy
Bursa
Konya
Samsun
Kayseri
Gaziantep
Bat'umi
Crete
Gaza Strip
Dhahran
Dasoguz
Nukus
Sumqayit
Sokhumi
Sochi
Sevastopol'
Constant a
Varna
Thessalonk
Suez
Asyut
Omdurman
Djibouti
Berbera
Boosaaso
Hargeysa
Al Mukalla
Al Hudaydah
Abu
Dhabi Doha
Ad Dammam
Al Jubayl
Medina
Beirut
Nicosia
Latakia
Homs
Al
Aqabah
Yanbu
al Bahr
Yerevan
Luxor
Trabzon
Denizli
Antalya
Erzurum
Van
Al Ghaydah
Salalah
Balkanabat
Bandar
Bushehr
Kerman
Zanjan
Rasht
Arak
Qom
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Aqtau
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Buraydah
Dubai
Tabuk
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Essence of Obama Middle East
Strategy Study (O MESS)
After extensive study and review, the essence of the Obama Middle East Strategy is set forth
below:
In common military terms, this is known as the WTF approach.
This concludes the O MESS .
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