The Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation

The Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation PDF

Author: Ang Cheng Guan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1000440087

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A History of the Manila Pact and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) from its establishment in 1954 until its dissolution in 1977. The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) has received meagre scholarly attention in comparison to other key events and global developments during the duration of the Cold War, due to its perceived failure early in its existence. However, there has been a renewed interest in the academic study of the organization. Some scholars have argued that SEATO was not an outright failure. New literatures have also shed in detail the workings of SEATO, such as operational-level contingency plans and counter-insurgency plans. This book aims to reconstruct a comprehensive life cycle of SEATO using declassified archival documents which were unavailable to scholars studying the organization from the 1950s through the 1980s and provide a nuanced assessment of it. In addition, in recent years, there is also an emerging interest in the possibility of a multilateral military alliance in Asia, for instance the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue morphing into an "Asian NATO". As such, it is therefore crucial to study how previous multilateral alliances in the context of Asia were formed, how they functioned, and subsequently dissolved. A groundbreaking reference on a key element of the United States’ Cold War strategy in Asia, which will be a valuable resource to scholars of twentieth century diplomatic history.

The Southeast Asia Crisis

The Southeast Asia Crisis PDF

Author: Kenneth Todd Young

Publisher: Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Published for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York by Oceana Publications

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13:

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This is the eighth in the series of books based on the Hammarskjöld Forums that are being conducted by The Association of the Bar of the City of New York as case studies on "The Role of Law in the Settlement of International Disputes". The Forum on "The Southeast Asia Crisis" on which this book is based was the second dealing with Asian problems. Since the Forum was held on October 18, 1965, at a time when emotions and frustrations were running high over the increasing involvement of the United States in Vietnam, there were those who would have preferred a presentation focused solely on that involvement and on the Vietnamese problem. The Committee decided, however, that the educational purposes of these Forums would be better served by trying to present the Southeast Asian problems, including that of Vietnam, in broader perspective.

U.S. Marines In Vietnam: The Advisory And Combat Assistance Era, 1954-1964

U.S. Marines In Vietnam: The Advisory And Combat Assistance Era, 1954-1964 PDF

Author: Capt. Robert H. Whitlow

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2016-08-09

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 178720085X

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This is the first of a series of chronological histories prepared by the Marine Corps History and Museums Division to cover the entire span of Marine Corps involvement in the Vietnam conflict. This particular volume covers a relatively obscure chapter in U.S. Marine Corps history—the activities of Marines in Vietnam between 1954 and 1964. The narrative traces the evolution of those activities from a one-man advisory operation at the conclusion of the French-Indochina War in 1954 to the advisory and combat support activities of some 700 Marines at the end of 1964. As the introductory volume for the series this account has an important secondary objective: to establish a geographical, political, and military foundation upon which the subsequent histories can be developed.