While the US is capable of addressing traditional threats to peace and security, it is not able to deal with the growing non-traditional security challenges that will affect the Asia-Pacific region (e.g. climate change, cyber and space security, pandemics, and water and food security). Moreover, given new budget constraints, US military thinking, as well as that of Asian (and other) allies, needs to shift from a preoccupation with conventional military responses (and a fixation on troop numbers) to new and relatively uncharted areas of cooperative threat response (cyber threats and space security). Improvements in American military capability and effectiveness over the past decade allow more to be achieved with less, something not reflected in the relatively large US troop deployments in the Asia-Pacific region.
- ISBN10 186203267X
- ISBN13 9781862032675
- Publish Date 30 June 2012
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 March 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Royal Institute of International Affairs
- Format Paperback
- Pages 58
- Language English