Word: counterbuildup
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Strait of Hormuz in the Arabian Sea. The gulf states share an anguished ambivalence toward American military protection. They want the security of having U.S. forces poised beyond the horizon to salvage them in a crisis, but they do not want them too close for fear of provoking a counterbuildup of Soviet forces...