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Aug 16, 2023

Conference Proceedings on Indian and U.S. Security Cooperation: Defense Production, Indo-Pacific Region, and Afghanistan

A two-day conference explored Indian and U.S. views on security across the Indo-Pacific, informed by six papers discussing bilateral security cooperation, Russian arms sales to India, and the challenges posed by China to regional security.
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Jan 25, 2023

Expanding Army Cooperation Between the United States and France in the Indo-Pacific

This report explores the commonalities between the U.S. and French strategies in the Indo-Pacific and suggests ways that the U.S. Army can further engage France in developing mutually beneficial military and security activities in the region.
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Dec 8, 2022

Implications of a Global People's Liberation Army: Historical Lessons for Responding to China's Long-Term Global Basing Ambitions

The authors examine three case studies among the United States' competitors to help anticipate what Chinese overseas access and basing might look like in the 2030s while assessing U.S. risks and opportunities posed by Chinese military expansion.
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Dec 8, 2022

The People's Liberation Army's Search for Overseas Basing and Access: A Framework to Assess Potential Host Nations

Using a framework of 17 indicators, the authors assess and rank potential host nations for Chinese overseas basing and access. They recommend steps to better understand China's overseas plans and to prioritize risks to U.S. forces.
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Dec 8, 2022

China's Global Basing Ambitions: Defense Implications for the United States

The authors examine China's growing overseas interests, attributes of potential host nations, and potential power projection operations that the People's Liberation Army may carry out abroad. They also draw lessons from historical case studies.
Commentary

Aug 23, 2021

Biden's Indo-Pacific Policy Blueprint Emerges

The Biden administration has yet to detail its goals in the Indo-Pacific region and how it plans to achieve them. But following recent virtual engagements and U.S. visits to the region, at least three key points have crystallized.
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Apr 13, 2020

U.S.–Japan Alliance Conference: Regional Perspectives on the Quadrilateral Dialogue and the Free and Open Indo-Pacific

These proceedings capture assessments by regional experts presented at a March 2019 conference on the topic of the "free and open Indo-Pacific" and the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue as seen by India, Australia, and Indonesia.
Commentary

Apr 1, 2019

A Ruling from the Hague Threatens a U.S. and British Military Base in Asia

A remote and obscure tropical atoll in the Indian Ocean would seem an unlikely stage for the latest act of the United Kingdom's unfolding Brexit drama and the newest challenge to U.S. global power projection. But a nonbinding verdict in The Hague calls into question the legitimacy of the UK's administration and the major U.S. military presence on the islands' largest atoll, Diego Garcia.