The Pentagon’s Strategy Toward Southeast Asia: Bolstering the States along the Seams

• Main Author: Long, Joey
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82251; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39858
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

THE Pentagon has a new strategic map and Southeast Asia is in it. While the region slipped off the American radar following the end of the Vietnam War and the subsequent withdrawal of United States forces from the Philippines, it has reappeared on the Pentagon’s strategic screen after September 11,...