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ajiss-1474	Sabet, Amr G. E.	Cobra II: By Michael R Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainor (New York: Pantheon Books, 2006. 603 pages.)	2008.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1201	47	49	As part of President George W. Bush’s vision of overhauling the American military, this program became a sort of “official ideology” (p. 8) and response to two main concerns: (1) the long time (six months) it took to plan and amass American forces during the lead-up to the 1992 Gulf War that had reversed Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait (this length of time was considered to fall short of credible “superpower” projection), and (2) the American military’s ability to fight two major wars simultaneously, which came to be known as the “two-war doctrine” (pp. The problem with the second consideration was that it required large ground forces to implement the doctrine, at a time when the foreseen trans- formation sought to trim American forces in favor of high-tech space and precision weapons.	cache/ajiss-1474.pdf	txt/ajiss-1474.txt