The US seeks to expand its military co-operation with India on a range of issues including non-proliferation and counter-terrorism, to expand the scope and participation of multilateral exercises in Asia, a Pentagon report said.
"As military capability and capacity increases in Asia, we will seek new ways to catalyse greater regional security cooperation. Leveraging our convening power, we will expand the scope and participation of multilateral exercises across the region," said the report titled 'The National Military Strategy of the United States of America 2011'.
"We seek expanded military cooperation with India on nonproliferation, safeguarding the global commons, countering terrorism, and elsewhere," the 24-page report said. "We will expand our military security cooperation, exchanges, and exercises with the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Singapore, and other states in Oceania-- working with them to address domestic and common foreign threats to their nation's integrity and security," it said.
"This will also help ensure we maintain a sustainable and diversified presence and operational access in the region. Lastly, we strongly encourage the development of security ties and commitments that are emerging among our allies and partners in the region. This helps strengthen regional norms and demonstrates increased responsibility and cooperation in addressing regional security challenges, said the report.
The National Military Strategy 2011 argues that US is at a strategic inflection point and must adjust to a redistribution of power in the international order. The redistribution is occurring between states, between regions, and from states to non-state actors, it noted.
The Joint Force will employ a spectrum of leadership approaches - facilitator (lead by supporting), enabler (lead alongside / by making others more capable), convener (lead from middle / by coordinating), and guarantor (lead from front). In all of these approaches, we will pursue broader and more effective partnerships and emphasise mutual responsibility, the report says.
Observing that the United States seeks a positive, cooperative, and comprehensive relationship with China that welcomes it to take on a responsible leadership role, the report said to support this, the Joint Force seeks a deeper military-to-military relationship with China to expand areas of mutual interest and benefit, improve understanding, reduce misperception, and prevent miscalculation. We will promote common interests through China's cooperation in countering piracy and proliferation of WMD, and using its influence with North Korea to preserve stability on the Korean peninsula," it said.
"We will continue to monitor carefully China's military developments and the implications those developments have on the military balance in the Taiwan Strait. We remain concerned about the extent and strategic intent of China's military modernization, and its assertiveness in space, cyberspace, in the Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and South China Sea," it said.
"To safeguard US and partner nation interests, we will be prepared to demonstrate the will and commit the resources needed to oppose any nation's actions that jeopardize access to and use of the global commons and cyberspace, or that threaten the security of our allies," the report said.
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