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Vietnam war us navy in southeast asia10/24/2023 The sources of this strategic quiescence have been multiple and interesting.įirst, the entire region has shared a consensus that the overriding task facing governments was economic development and societal modernization. In geopolitical terms, Southeast Asia in the post-Vietnam War period has enjoyed remarkable regional stability. corporations and banks as the region enjoyed explosive economic growth. Southeast effectively fell off Washington’s security map it became instead a place of high interest to U.S. and the Philippines agreed (acrimoniously) to end the lease that authorized U.S. The final shoe dropped in 1991 when the U.S. strategic attention turned away from Southeast Asia as rapidly and completely as it had turned toward it 15 years earlier. ![]() But with the end of that war in 1975, U.S. In Southeast Asia the “Cold War” was hot – culminating in the Vietnam War and an American investment of 58,000 lives based on the proposition that the region was of vital strategic importance. As the post-war era took shape, communist insurgencies bid for power throughout the region. for the first time in World War II as Allied forces fought to roll back Japan’s military occupation. Southeast Asia came into strategic focus for the U.S.
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