Editing Carter Doctrine (section)

==Implementation==
The Carter administration began to build up the [[Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force|Rapid Deployment Force]], which would eventually become [[United States Central Command|CENTCOM]]. In the interim, the administration asked Congress to restart [[Selective Service System|Selective Service]] registration, proposed a five percent increase in military spending for each of the next five years, and expanded U.S. naval presence in the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean.<ref name="Herring">{{cite book |last= Herring |first= George C. |title= From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 |year= 2008 |location= New York |publisher= Oxford University Press |isbn= 9780195078220 |url-access= registration |url= https://archive.org/details/fromcolonytosupe00herr }}</ref>{{rp|855}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Patterson|first=James T.|year=2005|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|title=Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore|isbn=978-0-19-512216-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/restlessgiantuni00patt_0|url-access=registration}}</ref>{{rp|123}}

A negative response came from retired strategist and diplomat [[George F. Kennan]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas G. Paterson|title=Meeting the Communist Threat: Truman to Reagan|publisher=Oxford University Press|url=https://archive.org/details/meetingcommunist00pate|url-access=registration|year=1989|page=[https://archive.org/details/meetingcommunist00pate/page/144 144]|isbn=978-0-19-504533-8 }}</ref> U.S. senator [[Ted Kennedy]] charged that Carter had overreacted, exaggerated the Soviet threat, and failed to act diplomatically. Kennedy repeated these allegations during his [[1980 Democratic Party presidential primaries|1980 Democratic presidential primary bid]], in which he was defeated.<ref>{{cite book|author=Burton Hersh|title=Edward Kennedy: An Intimate Biography|publisher=Catapult|url=https://archive.org/details/edwardkennedyint00hers|url-access=registration|year=2010|page=[https://archive.org/details/edwardkennedyint00hers/page/529 529]|isbn=9781582436289 }}</ref>

Carter's successor, [[Ronald Reagan]], extended the policy in October 1981 with what is sometimes called the "Reagan Corollary to the Carter Doctrine,"{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}} which proclaimed that the United States would intervene to protect Saudi Arabia, whose security was believed to be threatened during the [[Iran–Iraq War]]. Thus, while the Carter Doctrine warned away ''outside'' forces from the region, the Reagan Corollary pledged to secure ''internal'' stability. According to diplomat [[Howard Teicher]], "with the enunciation of the Reagan Corollary, the policy groundwork was laid for [[Gulf War|Operation Desert Storm]]."<ref>[[Teicher, Howard]] and Gayle Radley Teicher. ''Twin Pillars to Desert Storm: America's Flawed Vision in the Middle East from Nixon to Bush''. New York: Morrow, 1993. pp. 145-6</ref>