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The Spratly Islands warrant better understanding by U.S.
policymakers in order to discuss nuanced responses to the region's
challenges. To attain that needed understanding, legal aspects of
customary and modern laws are explored to analyze the differences
between competing maritime and territorial claims and why and how
the parties involved stake rival claims or maritime legal rights.
Throughout the monograph, the policies of the United States are
examined through its conflicted interests in the region.
Recommendations for how the United States should engage these
issues, a more appropriate task than trying to solve the disputes
outright, are then offered.
The national strategy of the United States has reemphasized the
Asia-Pacific region, but subsequent actions in that direction seem
to be preempted by more immediate crises elsewhere in the world and
by internal political disputes. Nonetheless, events in the region
continue to evolve and the United States must stay actively engaged
or lose its long-standing influence. With the status of China
rising and other regional states weighing their options between
Chinese and American power, a better understanding by American
policymakers of the region's disputes is necessary to maintain
American diplomatic, economic, and security influence under more
austere conditions. Of the issues daunting Southeast Asia, few are
as poorly understood by U.S. policymakers as the dispute between
Vietnam and China over the Paracel Islands
Theater strategy and theater security cooperation are two of the
most important tools available in attaining national security. They
offer an effective means for geographic Combatant Commanders to
engage other countries, deter aggression, or resolve crises.
However, there is little current, concise, and comprehensive
guidance on how they are planned and implemented. This paper
explains what theater strategy is, its basis, how it is formulated,
and how it is executed with emphasis on theater security
cooperation. The author illustrates the role in national affairs of
theater strategy and security cooperation through examples from a
case study leading up to and during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM in
Afghanistan.
The security and stability of Africa has recently become an
important national issue readily seen in the increased time,
effort, and resources now devoted to the continent by such new
organizations as the U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM). This paper
seeks to overcome centuries of ignorance and misunderstanding about
the conditions and people of Africa by discussing the fundamental
issues of economic development and political governance through
which enduring stability and security might be obtained. This paper
offers solutions in terms of improving African stability and
security and a framework of several key issues which should give
policymakers the knowledge they need to work in a constantly
changing and very challenging environment.
The security and stability of Africa has recently become an
important national issue readily seen in the increased time,
effort, and resources now devoted to the continent by such new
organizations as the U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM). This paper
seeks to overcome centuries of ignorance and misunderstanding about
the conditions and people of Africa by discussing the fundamental
issues of economic development and political governance through
which enduring stability and security might be obtained. This paper
offers solutions in terms of improving African stability and
security and a framework of several key issues which should give
policymakers the knowledge they need to work in a constantly
changing and very challenging environment.
Lieutenant Colonel Clarence Bouchat conceived this paper while
teaching theater strategy on the Distance Education faculty at the
U.S. Army War College. As an adjunct member of the resident course
teaching team, he also observed resident students wrestle with the
subject. While the Strategic Studies Institute does not normally
publish curricular materials, this is the second time a subject has
been deemed of sufficient importance and utility that it is now
offered to our wider audience. Theater strategy and theater
security cooperation (TSC) are two of the most important tools
available in attaining national security. They offer an effective
means for geographic Combatant Commanders to engage other
countries, deter aggression, or resolve crises. Despite their
importance, however, little current, concise, and comprehensive
guidance is available on how they are planned and implemented.
Understanding the political economy of Nigeria is needed to reveal
the root causes of its many ethnic, religious, economic, and
political problems and address them for the long term. The
pressures now weighing on Nigeria could literally fracture the
state along deep fault lines if rampant corruption and partisanship
continues. As mutually important partners for both of our interests
in Africa, the United States should assist in specific but indirect
ways to help Nigerians overcome their political economic problems.
Within such assistance, the role of the U.S. military is
particularly delicate but needed through focused aid to specific
programs and sharing of expertise, all best managed through
employing units that are regionally aligned to Nigeria or West
Africa.
The Spratly Islands warrant better understanding by U.S.
policymakers in order to discuss nuanced responses to the region's
challenges. To attain that needed understanding, legal aspects of
customary and modern laws are explored to analyze the differences
between competing maritime and territorial claims, and why and how
the parties involved stake rival claims or maritime legal rights.
Throughout the policies of the United States are examined through
its conflicted interests in the region. Recommendations for how the
United States should engage these issues, a more appropriate task
than trying to solve the disputes outright, are then offered.
The security and stability of Africa has recently become an
important national issue readily seen in the increased time,
effort, and resources now devoted to the continent by such new
organizations as the U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM). This paper
seeks to overcome centuries of ignorance and misunderstanding about
the conditions and people of Africa by discussing the fundamental
issues of economic development and political governance through
which enduring stability and security might be obtained. This paper
offers solutions in terms of improving African stability and
security and a framework of several key issues which should give
policymakers the knowledge they need to work in a constantly
changing and very challenging environment.
Nigeria's future as a unified state is in jeopardy. Those who make
or execute U.S. policy will find it difficult to advance U.S.
interests in Africa without an understanding of the pressures that
tear and bind Nigeria. Despite this, the centrifugal forces that
tear at the country and the centripetal forces that have kept it
whole are not well understood and rarely examined. After
establishing Nigeria's importance to the United State as a cohesive
and functioning state, this monograph examines the historic,
religious, cultural, political, physical, demographic, and economic
factors that will determine Nigeria's fate. It identifies the
specific fault lines along which Nigeria may divide. It concludes
with practical policy recommendations for the United States to
support Nigerians in their efforts to maintain a functioning and
integrated state, and, by so doing, advance U.S. interests.
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