Asia-Pacific: US security creates insecurity - Currents - Brief Article

New Internationalist, Oct, 2002

Direct intervention in the political and military frameworks of other countries has been the chosen weapon of US foreign policy for over a century. The 'war on terror' has enabled President Bush to carry this intervention to new heights. Rather than put its own troops in the firing line, the US is bolstering the military forces in and around countries friendly to it.

Regional insecurity across Asia and the Pacific is the result, as countries realign -- and adjust their nuclear capabilities. Here is a special NI assessment of the fallout.