IISS South East Asia Analysis
- The impact of missile defence in Asia
The dilemmas of transition One of the Bush administrations most important legacies to date has been its decision to lead the transition from the traditional offence-dominant nuclear regime towards a new mix of offensive and defensive forces. Even before the Bush administration took office, strategic opinion in the United States was coalescing around the view that deterrence by punishment was increasingly insufficient for assuring national security in the post-Cold War era. Accordingly,...
- America's alliances in East Asia
Purposes and prospects After decades of relative quiescence bordering on inertia, American defence strategy in East Asia and the bilateral security alliances that have long underpinned this strategy are on the cusp of far-reaching change. For the first time since the early 1990s, major American military units were withdrawn from the Korean Peninsula in 2004, with an additional third of the remaining forces scheduled to depart between now and the end of 2008. In Japan, increased integration of...
