Projecting Poseidon’s Trident: America’s East Asia and the shifting contours of 1950s post-war naval policy
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© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. While the US obtained control of the seas in maritime East Asia after the dissolution of the Japanese empire in 1945, the Truman administration did not link its international security with maritime space in the immediate post-war period. The outbreak of the Korean War and the First Taiwan Strait Crisis drove the US to rethink the significance of international waters and gradually adopt a sea-oriented strategic command. This development altered the defence structure in Cold War East Asia and such perimeters of maritime defence remained in place until the US ended official relations with Taiwan in 1979.
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Cold War, the US Navy, Maritime East Asia, the Korean War, the First Taiwan Strait Crisis
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Cold War History
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1468-2745
1743-7962
1743-7962
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Informa UK Limited
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This research is funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation. My work was also supported by the Japan Foundation, Academia Sinica (Taiwan), and John A. Adams ’71 Center for Military History and Strategic Analysis at Virginia Military Institute.