Published in The Washington Quarterly, this article sets out both the rationale for and principles of a modernised Indian Ocean strategy for the United States — pursued alongside its allies and partners — so that the region returns to being a strategic asset and a complicating factor for Beijing’s regional ambitions or Iranian irredentism.
Authors Peter Dean, Michael Green and Alice Nason start by summarising US efforts to focus more on the Indian Ocean over the past decade, then assess contemporary and emerging security challenges from intensifying strategic competition in the theatre, before proposing key elements of a new US Indian Ocean strategy for the coming decade.
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