In History That India Ignored, veteran journalist Prem Prakash argues that Britain’s support for Pakistan’s creation was driven by Cold War strategy. A compelling alternate history that reinterprets ...

In a private conversation an American scholar once described Pakistan’s army as the monkey on India’s back. The phrase is used to describe a huge and unsolvable problem. It has also been said ...

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 ...

The SEATO commitment was the reason. Making an ironclad promise under international law bound the United States to conflict. Over 10 years, 55,000 US troops died in a war that no presidential ...

The exercise was billed grandly as SEATO's "first joint international sea, air and land maneuvers." Thailand, which thought it up, declared that all eight nations had been invited to ...

US To India: Be My Local Deputy? However, for a sheriff to succeed in enforcing the law in his jurisdiction, there is a need for deputies. In the early days of the Cold War, America tried to ...

That points to the failure of SEATO to take root in Asia. Fast forward to today, the calls for Asian NATO is still impracticable.

IN shaping its foreign policy the Philippines is primarily moved by three considerations: first, national security; second, economic stability; and third, political and cultural relations with the ...

SEATO’s history remains significant even 70 years after its formation and nearly 50 years since its demise.

US Air Force Photo Many nations, NATO, SEATO or not, wanted a jet like the McDonnell F-4 Phantom II, but simply could not afford it. Northrop offered the F-5 as a much less-expensive and ...