Download or read book The Indian Ocean and US Grand Strategy written by Peter Dombrowski and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Ocean, with its critical routes for global commerce, is a potentially volatile location for geopolitical strife. Even as the region’s role in the international economy and as a highway to conflict zones increases, the US has failed to advance a coherent strategy for protecting its interests in the Indian Ocean or for managing complex diplomatic relationships across the region. The Indian Ocean and US Grand Strategy presents a range of viewpoints about whether and how the US should alter its diplomatic and military strategies for this region. Contributors examine US interests in the Indian Ocean, assess the relative critical importance or imperiled nature of these interests, and propose solutions for American strategy ranging from minimal change to maximum engagement. The book concludes with a comparative assessment of these options and a discussion of their implications for US policymakers. This volume’s perspectives and analysis of the Indian Ocean region will be valued by scholars and students of US foreign policy, South Asia, and security studies as well as by diplomats, military officers, and other practitioners.
Download or read book The End of Grand Strategy written by Simon Reich and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The End of Grand Strategy', Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski challenge this common view. They eschew prescription in favour of describing and explaining what America's military actually does. They argue that each presidental administration inevitably resorts to each of the six variant of grand strategy that they implement simultaneously as a result of a series of fundamental recent changes - what they term 'calibrated strategies.' Reich and Dombrowski support their controversial argument by examining six major maritime operations, stretching from America's shores to every region of the globe. Each of these operations reflects one major variant of strategy. They conclude that grand strategy, as we know it, is dead.
Download or read book The End of Grand Strategy written by Simon Reich and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The End of Grand Strategy, Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski challenge the common view of grand strategy as unitary. They eschew prescription of any one specific approach, chosen from a spectrum that stretches from global primacy to restraint and isolationism, in favor of describing what America’s military actually does, day to day. They argue that a series of fundamental recent changes in the global system, the inevitable jostling of bureaucratic politics, and the practical limitations of field operations combine to ensure that each presidential administration inevitably resorts to a variety of strategies. Proponents of different American grand strategies have historically focused on the pivotal role of the Navy. In response, Reich and Dombrowski examine six major maritime operations, each of which reflects one major strategy. One size does not fit all, say the authors—the attempt to impose a single overarching blueprint is no longer feasible. Reich and Dombrowski declare that grand strategy, as we know it, is dead. The End of Grand Strategy is essential reading for policymakers, military strategists, and analysts and critics at advocacy groups and think tanks.
Download or read book By More Than Providence written by Michael J. Green and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon after the American Revolution, ?certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to ask how best to expand trade with the region and whether to partner with China, at the center of the continent, or Japan, looking toward the Pacific. Where should the United States draw its defensive line, and how should it export democratic principles? In a history that spans the eighteenth century to the present, Michael J. Green follows the development of U.S. strategic thinking toward East Asia, identifying recurring themes in American statecraft that reflect the nation's political philosophy and material realities. Drawing on archives, interviews, and his own experience in the Pentagon and White House, Green finds one overarching concern driving U.S. policy toward East Asia: a fear that a rival power might use the Pacific to isolate and threaten the United States and prevent the ocean from becoming a conduit for the westward free flow of trade, values, and forward defense. By More Than Providence works through these problems from the perspective of history's major strategists and statesmen, from Thomas Jefferson to Alfred Thayer Mahan and Henry Kissinger. It records the fate of their ideas as they collided with the realities of the Far East and adds clarity to America's stakes in the region, especially when compared with those of Europe and the Middle East.
Download or read book The Indian Ocean and the Superpowers written by Rasul Bux Rais and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1987 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on the political and strategic implications of the presence in the Indian Ocean of the United States and the Soviet Union. The author examines the geopolitics of the region in historical perspective and describes the evolution of U.S. and Soviet strategy in the Indian Ocean. The central theme of the book is that the naval deployments of the superpowers should be seen in the context of each power's economic and security interests rather than in the context of military rivalry. The book provides an incisive and comprehensive account of U.S. and Soviet strategies in the Indian Ocean by establishing and integrating the links between the economic, political, and strategic dynamics of the situation.
Download or read book Seapower and Strategy in the Indian Ocean written by Alvin J. Cottrell and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1981 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'For the strategic studies student or maritime affairs buff the book is a must. No where outside of far more costly texts or seminars will this much knowledge on the maritime affairs of this region be imparted. Sage Publications are to be congratulated upon the format and publication of this timely work.' -- Military Journal 'This brief work is yet another in the growing collection of generally excellent policy-related monographs on international affairs underwritten by the Center for Strategic and International Studies of Georgetown University in Washington, DC.' -- The Middle East Journal, Summer 1983 'Authored by distinguished scholars, with valuable insights and descriptions and a detailed bibliography,
Download or read book The Indian Ocean in U S Strategy written by Gene A. Weaver and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Indian Ocean Region written by Anthony H. Cordesman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is one of the most areas of the world in human terms. This study provides a comprehensive overview of the subregions and countries in the IOR, drawing heavily on a new country risk assessment model developed by Abdullah Toukan, a senior associate with the Burke Chair at CSIS. It provides detailed graphs, tables, and maps covering the IOR as a whole, each major subregion, and each of the thirty-two countries in the region as well as the impact of U.S. and Chinese military forces.
Download or read book United States Strategy and the Indian Ocean Area written by James Marc Elster and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book India s Grand Strategy written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There currently exists a critical consensus that India's leaders lack a grand strategy to direct internal and external policies. Recent literature focuses increasingly on this issue to address the question of India's ability to counter China's rising influence in South Asia and the Indian Ocean Region. This thesis analyzes the ideological and historical factors that have contributed to India's grand strategy policy-making process. Specifically, the research focuses on two primary schools of strategic thought in India's rich history: the Indira Doctrine and the Gujral Doctrine. This study builds on George Tanham's mandala system of strategic thinking, which places India's spheres of influence into three concentric circles: the core, periphery, and extended neighborhood. Using this analytical framework, this thesis tests the Indira and Gujral Doctrines for their ability to resolve India's strategic concerns in each sphere of influence. The study concludes that India will not be able to counter China's influence or project its own global power until strategic issues in the core and periphery are resolved. In light of India's desire to wield great power, this thesis suggests that India's leaders draw on the policies found in the Indira and Gujral Doctrines to devise a coherent grand strategy.This compilation includes a reproduction of the 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community.India's security strategy has become increasingly more important to the international community given China's rising influence across Asia. However, experts around the world have also begun criticizing New Delhi due to its inability to lay out a coherent, achievable grand strategy. Critics worry that the largest democracy in the world is unable to wield a global presence strong enough to counter China's rising dominance. India desires parity with China in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) and hopes to project global strength, but its inability to modernize and build up its military have made these dreams increasingly difficult to achieve. Rooted in a historical commitment to maintaining India's strategic autonomy, leaders in New Delhi remain reluctant to establish foreign alliances to fill the gaps in their nation's capacity. With these factors in mind, this research explains what India's current strategic goals entail and whether the nation has the capacity to achieve them. In short, does India have the wherewithal to achieve its grand strategy?India's geographic position in the subcontinent has also influenced leaders in New Delhi that their strategy should center around their dominance in the region. George Tanham states that India's location, size, and population have all come together to create the idea of India's preeminence in the Indian Ocean region and its inherent global importance. India's greater size compared to its smaller neighbors created the idea of the Indian subcontinent as a single entity that Indian leaders should rightfully dominate. Tanham explains how India's geography also led to feelings of insecurity because certain northwest passages historically allowed invaders to reach India. He claims that these fears of being invaded and dominated permeate Indian strategy even today. Stephen Cohen concurs, though he focuses less on the land features and more on the ideological influence. In his opinion, Indian leaders have always wanted India to be a regional security provider, but that they have historically relied on partnerships with such other strong regional states as China and the Soviet Union to achieve this goal. These opinions combined suggest that current Indian strategy remains influenced by both historic notions of India's great power in the region and an obsession with maintaining security from outside invaders.
Download or read book The Indian Ocean Perspectives on a Strategic Arena written by William L. Dowdy and published by Durham : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viewing the countries surrounding the Indian Ocean as a distinct region united by instabilities as well as mutual interests, these essays examine whether stability in the region will be achieved through the buildup of military strength and the formation of new cooperative security arrangements. The contributors focus on the five subregions--the Persian Gulf, South Asia, the Red Sea and Horn of Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, and Australasia. Among topics discussed are: developments that affect the region, including expansion of navies; the prospect for arms limitation; the implications of the Iranian Revolution for the Persian Gulf as well as for its internal stability; the political and economic ramifications of the South Africa/black Africa animosity; the religious, ethnic, and political conflicts of southern and eastern Asia; and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. ISBN 0-8223-0649-2: $55.00.
Download or read book Strategic Concepts of the Indian Ocean written by Syed Akhtar Ahsan and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian Ocean written by Akhtar Majeed and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oceanic Strategy written by Vidhan Pathak and published by Routledge Chapman & Hall. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the significance of the Indian ocean region in strategic engagements between countries in Asia, Africa, and the west, and explores India's oceanic strategy and power politics. The Indian ocean region has been a key strategic issue for many Asian countries since it has a bearing on major concerns such as trade, transportation and security. The book analyses conflicts, shifts in dynamics, and foreign and military policy concerns of key players in Asia - including China, Japan, India, and South Korea - who are competing for dominance in the region. It discusses the hegemonic presence of the US, France, Russia and others, their interests, and its implications on the regional strategic balance. The book also analyses Africa's growing presence in the geopolitics in the region and the strategic interests of countries like South Africa and Kenya. The book provides an in-depth look at various elements of 'oceanic strategy' including mercantile activities, trade, oceanic construction, maritime diplomacy and the blue economy. It will be an essential read for students and researchers of international relations, strategic affairs, South Asian Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, defence studies, foreign policy, diplomacy and political studies.
Download or read book The Indian Ocean Political and Strategic Future written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on National Security Policy and Scientific Developments and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U S Indian Ocean Strategy written by Thomas Watson Rakestraw and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian Naval Strategy in the Twenty first Century written by James R. Holmes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first academic study of India's emerging maritime strategy, and offers a systematic analysis of the interplay between Western military thought and Indian maritime traditions. By a quirk of historical fate, Europe embarked on its Age of Discovery just as the main Asian powers were renouncing the sea, ushering in centuries of Western dominance. In the 21st century, however, Asian states are once again resuming a naval focus, with both China and India dedicating some of their new-found wealth to building powerful navies and coast guards, and drawing up maritime strategies to govern the use of these forces. The United States, like the British Empire before it, is attempting to manage these rising sea powers while preserving its maritime primacy. This book probes how India looks at the sea, what kind of strategy and seagoing forces New Delhi may craft in the coming years, and how Indian leaders may use these forces. It examines the material dimension, but its major premise is that navies represent a physical expression of a society's history, philosophical traditions, and culture. This book, then, ventures a comprehensive appraisal of Indian maritime strategy. This book will be of interest to students of sea power, strategic studies, Indian politics and Asian Studies in general. James R. Holmes is an Associate Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College and a former U.S. Navy surface warfare officer. Toshi Yoshihara is an Associate Professor in the Strategy and Policy Department at the Naval War College. Andrew C. Winner is Professor in the Strategic Research Department at the U.S. Naval War College.
