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Obama axing Cold War-era military policy leaves US unable to battle in two, simultaneous regional conflicts
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The Obama administration did away with the Pentagon’s “two-war” doctrine in 2012, leaving the US only able to battle a single major regional conflict, expert says.
Former President Barack Obama and then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced a new strategy in January 2012 that ended the Cold War-era "two-war" planning construct.
The two-war doctrine established that the U.S. should be capable of fighting two major regional conflicts simultaneously, and guided military planners through the Korean and Vietnam wars, as well as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11.
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