{"id":28462,"date":"2023-09-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=28462"},"modified":"2023-09-23T06:41:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T06:41:40","slug":"building-the-quad-a-diamond-of-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=28462","title":{"rendered":"Building the Quad: A Diamond of National Security"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n The Army University\u2019s Command and General Staff College\u2019s Cultural and Area Studies Office hosted a panel discussion on \u201cU.S. Foreign Policy in the Indo-Pacific: Building the Quad for Great Power Competition\u201d on Sept. 14 at the Lewis and Clark Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kan. <\/p>\n

Panelists included Ambassador Stephen M. Young, former director of the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Ambassador David H. Shinn, career diplomat, former Ambassador to Burkina Faso and Ethiopia; LTCOL Paul Mostafa, the Australian Army, CGSC; and Dr. David Hunter-Chester, a senior research analyst, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, G-2.
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FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. \u2013 The Indo-Pacific continues to be a region of strategic importance to U.S. national security, deserving closer attention and understanding. The Army University\u2019s Command and General Staff College\u2019s Cultural and Area Studies Office hosted a panel discussion on \u201cU.S. Foreign Policy in the Indo-Pacific: Building the Quad for Great Power Competition\u201d on <\/strong>Sept. 14 at the Lewis and Clark Center, Fort Leavenworth, KS to help broaden the understanding of diverse and complex social and geo-political current events affecting the region and the world in support of U.S. national security.<\/p>\n

As Dr. Mahir Ibrahimov, director of CASO, and moderator for the panel said, \u201c\u2026Geopolitics is never \u2018black\u2019 and \u2018white\u2019 and always requires a flexibility in your options to explore…\u201d and continuous education and research.<\/p>\n

The central topic of this CASO panel was the pros and cons of building the Quad or quadrilateral security dialogue as an informal strategic forum consisting of the U.S., India, Australia, and Japan.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s essentially a platform to discuss regional security issues, defense cooperation, and common challenges in the Indo-Pacific region, which originates from the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, when the four countries formed the so called \u2018Tsunami Core Group\u2019 and it evolved since then,\u201d Ibrahimov said.<\/p>\n

Each panel member provided their specific perspectives on the Quad and related issues in the region.<\/p>\n

They included: Ambassador Stephen M. Young, former director of the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Ambassador David H. Shinn, career diplomat, former Ambassador to Burkina Faso and Ethiopia; LTCOL Paul Mostafa, the Australian Army, CGSC; and Dr. David Hunter-Chester, a senior research analyst, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, G-2.<\/p>\n

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QUAD Nation\u2019s Adjustments to Mutually Beneficial Support <\/strong><\/p>\n

Mostafa discussed the adjusted defense budget outlined in the Australian Defense Strategy Review, which the panel discussed is something many countries within the Quad and world are doing to be more mutually beneficial both to their own nations as well as the Quad and surrounding regions.<\/p>\n

Adjustments in military budget procurements is a way the Australian Defense Force is making these mutually beneficial steps in national security by adjusting investments into items more useful platforms such as long-range weapons and lateral maneuver vessels.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying to compliment this idea that the Quad needs to be seen as something other than just an anti-China grouping,\u201d Mostafa explained.<\/p>\n

Quoting the Indian Prime Minister, he furthered his stance on the Quad\u2019s importance of having a clear mission and vision moving forward of \u201cstanding for something, not against something.\u201d<\/p>\n

These investments in support to the Quad being a mission based and not an alliance against single strategic powers, complimented Shinn\u2019s expertise on the need to harness purview and understanding of the strategic power of the Indian Ocean, which holds not only political but economic influences on national security in the region.<\/p>\n

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The Indian Ocean\u2019s Role in National Security<\/strong><\/p>\n

Increased port calls, under water naval intelligence collection, control as top export and import partner of countries touching the Indian Ocean, naval exercises and the establishment of a naval base at Djibouti are just a few of the ways China has made their presence and power in the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n

Shinn expanded by introducing the topic of China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative, which has seen recent expansions with intensions to bring global south closer to China aimed at the expansion of its influence.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile China\u2019s naval presence in the Indian Ocean remains modest, it\u2019s economic and political influence\u2026is significant and growing. China is the only country in the world, that has an embassy in every Indian Ocean littoral nation and island country,\u201d he said. \u201cThe U.S. still has the strongest naval presence in the Indian Ocean today but increasingly it\u2019s being challenged by China\u201d.<\/p>\n

This challenged presence coupled with the multiple military commands\u2019 divided responsibilities creates \u201cbureaucratic stove piping\u201d with no real common-sense way of resolution to a wholistic strategy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Quad and “AUKUS”, Australia, United Kingdom and U.S., are key components of U.S. policy in the region and aimed at containing China\u2019s rise in the Indian Ocean,\u201d Shinn said.<\/p>\n

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The Quad\u2019s Accomplishments and Future Endeavors<\/strong><\/p>\n

As \u201can Army Brat\u201d returning to Fort Leavenworth was a homecoming for Young, and an \u201chonor\u201d to be part of the discussion, sharing his Indo-Pacific expertise, starting with an assertion that China\u2019s \u201conly two friends are beleaguered Russian and totalitarian North Korea\u201d.<\/p>\n

Young used words such as belligerent and authoritarian to describe China\u2019s recent policies that have all but alienated them from the rest of Asia and the world even with middle grounders like Mongolia and Vietnam.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Quad is still a work in progress, but all signs are that Australia, U.S. and Japan, as well as some other countries of the region, are determined to counter Chinese territorial aggression,\u201d Young said.<\/p>\n

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Quad: \u2018National Security Diamond\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

With more than five decades of scholarly research on Japan, Hunter Chester provided insight to the maturation of Japan\u2019s Post-War \u2018domestic anti-militarism\u2019 to one of two prime ministers being the first international leaders to suggest the creation of Quad.<\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s Post-War anti-militarism norm has driven Japan to pursue what they call comprehensive security with important economic and diplomatic dimensions.<\/p>\n

A path laid in the early 2000\u2019s by late prime minister Shinzo Abe that veered from the fear of dictatorship riddled militarism, laid the framework for the Quad and a later U.S. adopted free and open Indo-Pacific strategy, which he call, \u2018a democratic security diamond\u2019, Hunter Chester explained.<\/p>\n

This path has allowed current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, despite continued fear of militarization, to see and understand the economic and diplomatic importance of the Quad, plus the steps necessary to make Japan a formidable value, added to the Quad diamond.<\/p>\n

According to Hunter Chester, he has pledged to increase the country\u2019s defense spending, much like Australia, pushing this particular bucket of spending higher for the first time since the 1970\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\u201cFumio\u2019s work continues to drive Abe\u2019s and now Japan\u2019s \u2018comprehensive security\u2019 approach,\u201d Hunter Chester explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the kind of outlook that produced Abe\u2019s original vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific, one that requires cooperation with like minded democracies. The four countries of the Quad remain a cornerstone of that vision,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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During the questions and comments session, an interactive discussion followed in \u2018a full house\u2019 of the Arnold Conference Room, as well as joined by audiences through a livestream.<\/p>\n

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This panel is part of a seminar series discussing issues of operational and strategic importance to the U.S., which CASO in coordination with CGSC, universities, think tanks, interagency and other partners conduct every two to three months, which is also live streamed on CGSC’s Facebook page.<\/p>\n

Audience reach is across Army schools, Centers of Excellence, Regionally Aligned Forces, Security Forces Assistance Brigades, in addition to deployed or deploying units, Joint, Interagency, Multinational, partners and beyond.<\/p>\n

The video recording of this panel with related information can be accesses and viewed on CASO website, the CGSC Facebook or YouTube Playlist channel along with any past CASO discussions:<\/p>\n

CASO website: https:\/\/armyuniversity.edu\/cgsc\/caso\/caso.aspx<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

CASO Playlist YouTube\u00a0link:\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLkGvnfy3IadNRMPT-sNHpAsz8a3npWBH8<\/a><\/p>\n

Sep. 14 CASO Panel YouTube Video (CGSC): https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QlGzPC4lK10<\/a><\/p>\n

Sep. 14 CASO Panel Facebook Video (CGSC): https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/USACGSC\/videos\/1023535192332784\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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