ABSTRACT
United States (US) security interests in the Third World derive largely from US security interests in the First World. US security interests in the Third World derive, for the most part, from primary US security interests in North America, Western Europe, and Northeast Asia. The United States has two major security interests in the Third World. The first is preservation of access to that fossil fuel, mineral, and metal deposits in the Third World that are indispensable to the West's economic well being. The second is prevention of the establishment of Soviet military power in those areas of the Third World essential either to the maintenance of Western economic lines of communication to the Third World. Or to the ability of the United States and its allies militarily to defend the three primary regions of North America, Europe, and Northeast Asia.
