Naval Forces in the Asia-Pacific Region

摘要

During the Cold War, U.S. national security policy had a clear unifying principle of containing Soviet expansion while deterring nuclear attacks against the U.S. or its allies. This principle was expounded in George Keenan's long telegram and Paul Nitze's NSC-68. However, with the end of the Cold War, the world is substantially more complicated and a single unifying principle to provide clear guidance in specific cases is absent. This paper examines the impact of this changing global arena on maritime forces in the Asia-Pacific region. This analysis explores the requirement for the U.S. to cultivate additional maritime relationships in the Asian theater.