ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of strategic thought from nongovernment sources from 1991-1995. The survey is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather to highlight the diversity of opinion about future US relations with the Asian Pacific. A divergence has always existed between US global deterrence strategy and those strategic objectives held to be most important by the United States' Asia-Pacific allies. Strategic proposals emphasized a balance of power in Asia maintained through various geopolitical configurations. The balance of power strategies were based on cooperative US relations with China and Japan. Other balance of power strategies, however, identify China and Japan as emerging threats to US interests. A number of strategies can be built on the assumption that China will become the principal security threat to the United States. All integrative strategies are based on the assumption that wider cooperation between nation-states will improve the international system while protecting the self-interest of individual countries.
