Southwest Asia, located
By Christian Brose Thanks to commenter Jason Sigger for helping me to find Southwest Asia: The military has used this term, SW Asia, to identify Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, Pakistan, pretty much all of the Middle East. Been doing that since at least 1990. Not just Iran, sir. I’d be curious to know whether Ross’s ...
By Christian Brose
Thanks to commenter Jason Sigger for helping me to find Southwest Asia:
The military has used this term, SW Asia, to identify Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, Pakistan, pretty much all of the Middle East. Been doing that since at least 1990. Not just Iran, sir.
By Christian Brose
Thanks to commenter Jason Sigger for helping me to find Southwest Asia:
The military has used this term, SW Asia, to identify Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, Pakistan, pretty much all of the Middle East. Been doing that since at least 1990. Not just Iran, sir.
I’d be curious to know whether Ross’s portfolio will include all of these countries as well. Judging from this, that may be true. Interesting.
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