Strategic importance to the Red Sea in the Greater Middle East

Abstract

The last decade of the twentieth century involved many variables, the first of which was the end of the Cold War, the beginning of the stage of American unilateralism, and the world began in a new stage of labor, which resulted in the outbreak of devastating wars in many parts of the world, and accompanied with these wars, many theories were put forward, such as the end of history by Fukayama and the theory of the clash of civilizations by Samuel Huntington and the political projects, the most prominent of which was the Greater Middle East project, which was put forward by the United States of America as a political, economic and cultural reform project in the Middle East region. It is more like the stage of the beginning of the twentieth century, as there are global powers struggling to establish their interests and implement their political agendas without the conflict being resolved by anyone until the outbreak of the First World War (1914-1918). The United States of America has emerged as a global power with enormous economic, military and political capabilities, but it did not appear as a single power absolutely by dominating the world. Rather, it can be said that it has become the first player in global issues, meaning that the party in which the United States of America is is always the winner, and the evidence for that is that The United States was not able to carry out a single military action without the help of (allies) or (friends) to help it, and American politicians realized this, so they began trying to gather the largest number of friends under its umbrella through military alliances or political projects, including the Greater Middle East project, which is the subject of research, and this project is one of the projects Through which the United States of America is trying to impose its hegemony on an important region of the world, namely the Middle East region, whose vital artery is the Red Sea, economically and militarily. The researcher assumes that the Red Sea represents the link between the maritime transportation routes in the Middle East region, and its importance increased for the United States of America after it implemented the dual theories of Mahan and Seversky (naval force, air force), meaning that it is trying to secure it to facilitate the movement of its naval battleships in it. Three topics, where the researcher touched in the first topic the development of the strategic structure of the Middle East, while the second topic came under the name of the American strategy after the Cold War, while the third topic concluded the location of the sea in the system of the Greater Middle East. The researcher relied on the historical research methodology and the analytical research methodology. Effect of using the m