It is as though the Gulf crisis has become a household name, or a brand name of the international politics of power in the contemporary world. It is not a local conflict, but rather a strategic prism through which the world powers are reassessing the structure and future of the international system. As things are getting out of hand in the Middle East, the crisis has now become a news peg of importance and has also pointed out how the old order of security is becoming very weak, and moreover, it has accelerated the debate on whether the world is moving to a multipolar state or remains in the unipolar order.

The recent announcement by the United States Department of Defense about the sale of high-tech THAAD missile defense systems from the Korean Peninsula to the Middle East is one indicator of this change. Such repositioning is an indicator of Washington’s re-emergence in the Gulf as a factor in global security thinking. The fact that the region is still seen by the USA as its geopolitical concern is the indicator. Nevertheless, another important question this act raises is the possibility of traditional military deployments to maintain the stability of the world order, which is constantly broken and torn apart.

The Gulf security policy of most countries for hundreds of centuries was based on the fact that the United States could intervene as the ultimate guarantor in the wake of a crisis. The implications of this dependency extended to alliances, regional political orientations, and defense policies. However, this trust is slowly diminishing, as recent events suggest. It is stated that the Gulf states have been dispatching covert diplomatic talks to persuade Washington to renew its defensive umbrella not only to safeguard its strategic partner, Israel, but to safeguard the Gulf states against any form of Missiles and Drone assaults by the........

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