Research Catalog

Title

Geopolitics, security, and U.S. strategy in the Caribbean basin / David Ronfeldt ; a Project Air Force report prepared for the United States Air Force.

Author

Ronfeldt, David F.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand, [1983]

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Additional Authors

United States. Air Force

Description

xvi, 93 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

This study examines some operational military issues involving the Caribbean Basin, and it reflects the broader concern that answers to operational military questions should depend heavily on answers to more fundamental questions about why and how the United States should be interested in this complex, unstable region. Based on an examination of current trends as well as historical experience since promulgation of the Monroe Doctrine, the study advances a conceptual framework that identifies underlying geostrategic principles for guiding U.S. policy in the Basin. The study then proposes specific measures for developing an integrated political, economic, and military strategy that would advance U.S. interests and meet the interests of Basin neighbors.

Alternative Title

Geopolitics, security, and US strategy in the Caribbean basin.

Subject

• United States > Foreign relations > 1945-1989
• Caribbean Area > Foreign relations > United States
• United States > Foreign relations > Caribbean Area
• Caribbean Area > Strategic aspects
• Caribbean Area > Foreign relations > 1945-

Note

• "November 1983."
• "R-2997-AF/RC."

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 89-93.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0833005316 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^83021277^//r84

OCLC

10046041

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library