The U.S. Army in Southeast Asia : near-term and long-term roles

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Label

The U.S. Army in Southeast Asia : near-term and long-term roles

Title remainder

near-term and long-term roles

Statement of responsibility

Peter Chalk

Title variation

RAND Arroyo Center

Creator

• Chalk, Peter

Subject

• Armed Forces -- Planning
• Electronic books
• HISTORY -- Asia | Southeast Asia
• HISTORY -- Military | Other
• International Relations
• Law, Politics & Government
• Military relations
• Security, International
• Security, International -- Southeast Asia
• Southeast Asia
• TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science
• United States
• United States -- Armed Forces -- Southeast Asia
• United States -- Military relations -- Southeast Asia
• United States, Army
• United States, Army -- Planning
• Armed Forces

Language

eng

Summary

This RAND report explores the role and force posture of the U.S. Army in Southeast Asia, both now and out to 2020. The author argues that, under the current, largely benign conditions, the military will focus mainly on supporting defense reform and modernization, facilitating disaster relief response operations, providing assistance to address nonconventional transnational threats, and helping to balance China's increased influence into the region. If the security outlook in Southeast Asia remains favorable, these mission areas will not fundamentally change over the near term. However, should the general outlook deteriorate, perhaps as a result of a severe economic slowdown, the geopolitical environment will become far less certain and more prone to crisis. Governments that have derived legitimacy from rapid development would suffer from a loss of grassroots support. State-to-state rivalries would become more acute, especially with regard to the South China Sea disputes. And natural catastrophes would take on greater security relevance because of tighter fiscal constraints for underwriting disaster preparedness and response. To meet these challenges, the United States will need to adopt an agile strategy that is thin in physical presence but broad in programmatic execution. Specifically, there are four areas in which the Army should concentrate its efforts: (1) enhancing the defense capacities of partner nations to meet both conventional and nonconventional dangers; (2) concluding new base agreements for hosting small, mission-oriented expeditionary forces; (3) expanding support for regional humanitarian assistance activities; and (4) initiating appropriate responses to counter a more outwardly adventurist China

Member of

• Research report (Rand Corporation), RR-401-A

Cataloging source

E7B

Dewey number

355.033059

Index

no index present

LC call number

JZ6009.S644

LC item number

.C435 2013eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Rand Corporation research report series

Series volume

RR-401-A