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Taking to the skies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
A resurgence in spending on manned and unmanned air power across Asia-Pacific is largely being driven by regional and territorial disputes, and the desire to keep up with near neighbours in a regional arms ...
Antill, Peter D.
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Territorial Defence Forces in Non-Military Emergencies

open access: yesKwartalnik "Bellona", 2019
The article focuses on crucial questions concerning the Territorial Defence Forces. It demonstrates reasons for creating them as a branch of the armed forces. Alongside some aspects of this formation’s history, key solutions implemented by other nations are shown.
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BUILDING THE RESERVES ON THE NATO FOREFRONT: THE BALTIC WAY [PDF]

open access: yesTrames
This study explores the defence strategies of the Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania – focusing on the development of their national reserve forces as a response to increased security threats from Russia.
Tomáš Zwiefelhofer, Josef Procházka
doaj   +1 more source

Caught Between Appeasement and Limited Hard Balancing: The Philippines’ Changing Relations With the Eagle and the Dragon

open access: yesJournal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2022
After five years of pursuing a policy of appeasement towards China, the Philippines is incrementally and reluctantly shifting to “limited hard balancing.” The goal is to constrain China's revisionist agenda in the South China Sea.
Renato Cruz De Castro
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Entry of the Slovak Army into the War Against the Soviet Union in 1941

open access: yesReview (Institute of National Remembrance), 2023
While preparing the Operation Barbarossa the Nazi Germany did not originally consider participation of other countries apart from Romania and Finland that had territorial demands against Soviet Union.
Igor Baka, Matej Medvecký
doaj   +1 more source

Crowded waters: naval competition in the Asia–Pacific [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Overview: This report analyses the regional trend of key nations investing in more capable naval and air platforms. In Northeast Asia, countries include China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
Sheryn Lee
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The Territorial Defense Force in the fight against terrorism – institutional and legal issues

open access: yesScientific Journal of the Military University of Land Forces, 2020
The Territorial Defense Force is of great interest to politicians, the media and public opinion. A great deal of misinformation and misconceptions have arisen about the subject related to the newly created type of the Polish Armed Forces. Therefore, the aim of the article is to familiarize the reader with the role, place and tasks of the Territorial ...
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O mar territorial brasileiro de 200 milhas: estratégia e soberania, 1970-1982

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Política Internacional, 1999
O artigo procura analisar e identificar o conjunto de forças que contribuíram, decisivamente, no alargamento do mar territorial brasileiro para 200 milhas marítimas, em março de 1970.
Gustavo de Lemos Campos Carvalho
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Not quite the 'Great Britain of the Far East': Japan's security, the US-Japan alliance and the 'war on terror' in East Asia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Japan, in responding to US expectations for support in the 'war on terror', has displayed a degree of strategic convergence on global security objectives, thus prompting policy-makers and observers to dub it the 'Great Britain of the Far East'.
Christopher W Hughes   +13 more
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“The Island of Thieves”: Rethinking Empire and the United States in Micronesia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This piece examines empire by purchase and lease in the Pacific and the manner by which the United States gained control over a series of strategically valuable islands in the region.
Alessio, Dominic, Renfro, Wesley B.
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