الأستراتيجية العسكرية للولايات المتحدة الأمريكية تجاه آسيا (1949-1957)

Abstract

The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II, when the United States emerged as the world's largest economic and military power, and the Cold War began, turned into an existential conflict that affected all global situations. Since 1949, the Asian continent has been one of the centers of this conflict between two great powers to ensure their security, political and ideological interests in the region. Each of these two powers sought to gain influence in Asia, which led to the continent's involvement in the international conflict between them. American strategic planners developed a military strategy towards Asia to impose a blockade on the southern borders of the Soviet Union and protect American strategic interests in the areas of oil and gas resources and their transport routes across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Gulf, and the Red, Mediterranean and Black Seas. The US administration approved the US military strategy during the era of Presidents Harry Truman (1945-1953) and Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961) and threatened to use nuclear weapons against the Soviet Union as a last resort in the event of security crises to protect US strategic interests in Asia. The term nuclear deterrence appeared in the US military strategy during the Cold War.