Description - Navies of South-East Asia by James Goldrick
This book provides a comprehensive survey of the development and operations of the navies of South East Asia since the end of World War II. These services have rarely been the subject of systematic attention by either strategists or academics but, as their parent nations develop and as the maritime strategic balance within East Asia becomes more complex and open to challenge through the rise of China, the various navies are likely to play an increasingly significant role in times to come. While most have had only limited military capability in the past, the majority of these navies are acquiring new capabilities, most notably submarines (Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam have all moved to acquire such forces in recent years) which will profoundly alter their ability to influence events and the way in which they are regarded by their neighbours -- and by the great powers. This book sets the navies of S.E. Asia within their national context and explains the difficulties that each has faced in developing naval capability in competition not only with local armies and air forces but other national requirements.
It explains the nature of each navy's threat assessments and the way in which it has developed its force structure. It shows the way in which each has been shaped by history and by changing maritime strategic concepts, particularly through developments such as the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention and the extension of national sovereignty and interests over large parts of what had before been the high seas. The study is particularly concerned to explain the restraints of limited resources, financial, technological and human and the ways in which these have been overcome or minimised -- sometimes by very different approaches to those adopted by Western navies. It seeks to understand how the navies are likely to develop in the future, what new challenges they will face and what role they will play within a region of profound and increasing global strategic significance in which great power rivalries as well as local conflicts may be at play. This book will be of much interest to students of naval policy, SE Asian politics, regional security, strategic studies and IR in general.
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