Shifting Focus: SCS to IOR

Abstract

INDOPACOM needs to shift its primary focus from the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean Region. INDOPACOM's policies in the SCS are not working. The United States hyper-focus on the region blinds it to opportunities in the IOR that, if not acted upon quickly, will result in American irrelevancy in both the IOR and the SCS.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 14, 2021
Accession Number
AD1147726

Entities

People

  • Timothy V. Matthews

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Agreements
  • Alliances
  • Asia
  • China
  • Competition
  • Department Of Defense
  • Diplomacy
  • Economics
  • Foreign Relations
  • Indian Ocean
  • International Law
  • International Organizations
  • Islands
  • Law
  • National Security
  • Oceans
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Security
  • South China Sea
  • Southeast Asia
  • Territorial Disputes
  • United States
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Asian Economic Studies
  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience