Military Modernisation in Southeast Asia after the Cold War: Acquisition, Retention, and Geostrategic Impacts

Southeast Asian countries represent a wide range of approaches to military modernisation due to their great diversity in politics, economies, geography and other factors. Bounded by the Pacific and Indian Oceans and located between China and India is the setting for the geostrategic impacts of military modernisation in Southeast Asian countries.

Differing from previous research focused on military acquisition, this book additionally covers retention of assets and carefully examines the agein...