Pouring War Weapons

The Nation (Thailand)

04 June 2015

Growing defence budgets have underwritten a sizeable arms build-up in Southeast Asia since around the turn of the century. Regional navies have particularly benefited from this increase in military expenditures. As a result, many Southeast Asian navies are in the process of transforming themselves from modest forces oriented mainly toward coastal defence to modern fleets capable of projecting considerable firepower into local “green waters”.

… Richard A. Bitzinger is a senior fellow and coordinator of the Military Transformations Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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