Political and Strategic Relations (Australia-New Zealand-United States)

The View from Washington

Malcolm W. Hoag

Expert InsightsPublished 1970

An assessment of ANZUS relations to be presented to a conference on this theme at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, February 1970. Current relations are unusually good, but will be subjected to new strains in determining a revised counterbalance in Asia to a nuclear China. From a strategic assessment of this threat, idealized criteria for a counterbalance in the Pacific are determined. These criteria stress discriminating capabilities for controlled "city-sparing" nuclear responses. Conflicting proposals for national nuclear forces in Asia (H. Bull, A. Buchan) are opposed.

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  • Year: 1970
  • Pages: 32
  • Document Number: P-4281

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Hoag, Malcolm W., Political and Strategic Relations (Australia-New Zealand-United States): The View from Washington. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1970. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P4281.html.
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