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Popular MDA Initiatives and Implications for ASEAN

By |2024-02-02T09:18:06-10:00February 2nd, 2024|

By Hoang Do, Research Official, East Sea Institute[1], Vietnam (CSC 22-1 DKI APCSS alumni) Summary: ASEAN countries have been offered to join multiple Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) programs, integrating new technologies to better monitor the situation on the ground by their partners. This tendency might bring about opportunities for ASEAN to increase its capacity to deal with maritime crimes and the so-called "gray zone" challenges and meet its developmental needs. On the other hand, it offers several concerns regarding national security in cyber and sovereignty space, big powers competition, and technical incompatibility. A more concerted and categorized MDA effort, equipped [...]

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U.S. Obsession with Old Dogma Facilitates a Chinese Quest for Pacific Control

By |2022-10-17T15:25:15-10:00October 17th, 2022|

By Commodore Kazi Emdadul Haq, BSP, ndu, psc, BN (retd) Founding Member, Bangladesh Institute of Maritime Research and Development (BIMRAD)    Abstract Pursuing Sun Tzu's strategy of deception to win without waging war, China has not only risen but challenged US supremacy, especially in the Pacific region. Awoken from hibernation, the United States found it difficult to maintain freedom at sea following Mahan's sea control strategy. The United States was obsessed for decades with Huntington's theory that made Islamic countries its enemy. The U.S, discovered, however, that China had become a formidable power challenging the US Monroe doctrine that serves [...]

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