Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force
The Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (RDJTF) is an inactive United States Department of Defense Joint Task Force. It was inactivated in 1983, and re-organized as the United States Central Command (USCENTCOM).
After the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War, American attention gradually focused on the Persian Gulf. The Yom Kippur War of 1973, the US/Soviet confrontation and the subsequent 1973/1974 oil crisis led to President Richard Nixon issuing an American warning "that American military intervention to protect vital oil supplies" was a possibility, served to increase attention on the area as being vital to US national interests.
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