America's Indian Ocean Strategy. Issue 9 (21st October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Is Part Of: Strategic comments. Volume 23:Issue 9(2017)
• Page Start: vi
• Page End: vii
• Publication Date: 2017-10-21
• Subjects: World politics -- 1989- -- Periodicals; Security, International -- Periodicals; Strategy -- Periodicals; Military policy -- Periodicals; 320.9
• DOI: 10.1080/13567888.2017.1398535
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1356-7888

Abstract

Abstract : A combination of structural and policy impediments will tend to keep the Indian Ocean region fragmented in the US policy lens. The United States is likely to use the region as a staging area for counter-terrorism efforts in and around the Persian Gulf, and as a secondary theatre in the deepening strategic competition with China. Increasing tension with Iran could also sharpen US focus on the northwest corner of the region.