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number The Indian Ocean base at Diego Garcia will be 'enhanced', and several Pentagon teams have visited the region recently Oman Dalt Tomala pushed the US to look to Somalia for permanent basing rights at the Soviet-built Tacinty or berbera, and turned down thi offer of a permanent US base presence ir inis is a mere formanty The US presence Saudi Arabia already quite large, in the form of training technicians, and 'white-collar me large sons- manuf in rer. A high-level US 'planning and command struc spring of 1979 in Arabia supervising the reorganisa non or me •and say or perence and establishing a planning unit within it the team was Major Richard Lawrence, who participated in joint US-Israeli-Egyptian military talks in Washington before taking • Dala Lawrence regarded as a strong candidate to head up a proposed Middle East command, if that responsibly Is sautco trom us military headquarters in Europe.
A RAND Corporation report for the Pentagon in December 1978 recommended that US planning more prominent role to the performance by US non-compan functions, such as airlift, logistic support, intelligence.