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Military Transparency and Asian SecurityTOKYO – We have all heard the saying, “Sunshine is the best disinfectant.”
Indeed, I believe that a framework under which Asian governments publicly disclose their military budgets needs to be established if we are to build trust and avoid a regional arms race.
More broadly, keeping military expansion in check, enlarging the number of countries that conclude the Arms Trade Treaty, and improving mutual understanding among national defense authorities are now the paramount issues facing Asia.
Military expansion is inherently incompatible with Asia’s move toward the center of the global economy.
Fighting continues in Afghanistan, with the surge of the international military forces and Afghan government forces and the spring-summer offensive by the Taliban and other insurgents.
A military impasse could erode their support and even delegitimize them.
And powerful clans from Tobruk have succeeded in placing their members in key military positions.
Conflicts have already erupted between TNC members as well as between members of the military leadership.
On the military side, simmering tensions between two officers are frustrating combat strategy.
Such political and military spats are likely to continue as officials attempt to consolidate their positions.
Municipal councils in Bayda, Darna, and Tobruk have pledged their support for the TNC, and fighters who battled American forces in Iraq have lined up behind the body’s military leaders.
With the rebels lacking professional military training and discipline, such gains look increasingly unlikely.
Such a mission will require sending hundreds more military specialists to Libya than the few dozen that Britain, France, and Italy have pledged.
And, above all, that means piling up military victories on the road to Tripoli.
But China’s actual military spending is estimated to be much higher than the official budget: according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, China spent some $228 billion on its military last year, roughly 150% of the official figure of $151 billion.
In any case, the issue is not the amount of money China spends on guns per se, but rather the consistent rise in military expenditure, which implies that the country is prepared to engage in a long-term war of attrition with the US.
Rule I: No More Nation-buildingDuring the first two post-Cold War presidencies, the US conducted military interventions in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
These are three of the most important parts of the world, and in each the American military presence plays a constructive role.
In East Asia, American air and naval forces provide a check on China, but also serve one of China’s strategic interests by keeping Japan from conducting an independent military policy.
To keep the peace in both regions, a continuing US military presence of some kind will be needed.
Even though they are fighting side-by-side in Libya, with their armies expressing a deep confidence in each other, there are distinct nuances in each country’s position on military intervention.
Neither France nor Britain – not to mention the European Union, which is more divided than ever when it comes to military interventions – can be seen as substitutes for the US.
This will inevitably prove to be the source of long-term political and military instability in large parts of Africa, the Middle East, Central and South Asia, as well as a number of former Soviet republics.
China, meanwhile, has avoided becoming enmeshed in overseas military debacles, emphasizing win-win economic initiatives instead.
In June, after the United States pressured Israel to allow Fulbright scholarship winners to leave the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military announced that it would grant exit permits for a few more students with “recognized” scholarships – but not “hundreds.”
In Burma, we see another model – a bold attempt after decades of military rule to move in a controlled but purposeful way toward a new, inclusive form of government.
A military elite favors step-by-step reform, but wants to protect its position and is determined to avoid a descent into chaos.
She told Syria’s business, military, and other leaders that they must recognize that their futures lie with the state, not with the regime.
In Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, and Moscow, preventing bank failures, not military escalation, was the most pressing problem.
He was a 27-year-old junior officer accompanying Geng Biao, then a vice premier and China’s leading military official.
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