The geopolitically inclined will remember NATO’s impotent cousin SEATO, the South East Asia Treaty Organization. It was assembled in 1954 to deal with the threat of Communist insurgency in the ...

Yet Seato’s fatal flaw — which could haunt Mr. Biden’s plans — was overreliance on American military power. After all, of the other Seato members — France, Britain, New Zealand, Australia, the ...

That left SEATO looking embarrassingly like an all-U.S. tiger—as critics have charged it was all along. At week’s end, Australia and Britain gallantly swallowed their pride, ...

The roar of modern war’s destroying engines shook the gilded spires and jeweled pagodas of many-templed Bangkok last week. In answer to the Thai government’s invitation, SEATO nations were ...

U.S., NATO and SEATO leadership must collaborate on reinforcing deterrence in Northeast Asia. They can also gain a better understanding of how interoperability, ...

SEATO was formally disbanded in 1977. The U.S. might also pursue a more trade-focused approach to containing China, for example reviving the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), ...

SEATO’s past also teaches us about the kind of problems that may emerge with a multilateral alliance in Asia. Allies often expect more than what is provided for in the casus foederis, ...

SEATO, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, was much like NATO but was developed during the Vietnam War and discontinued soon after the war ended. President Trump should lead an effort to ...

SEATO had few formal functions and began unraveling in the early '70s. When the Vietnam War ended in 1975, SEATO's fate was sealed. It disbanded in 1977. ...