The Kra Canal : an analysis of a foreign policy alternative for the United States Navy in the Indian Ocean

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Graham, Alan Stevens
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1975-03Advisor
Huff, Boyd
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Janis, Mark W.
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Thailand's Isthmus of Kra connects the Malay Peninsula with
southern Thailand and Burma. Sixty miles in width at its
narrowest point, the Kra Isthmus, over time, has been proposed
as a site for the location of a canal connecting the South China
j Sea with the Indian Ocean. The impact that a completed Kra Canalj
would have on U.S. Naval policy in the Indian Ocean, in support of specific national interests, was analyzed with respect to
the advantages and costs that would result from U.S. participation
in the construction and operation of the canal. The
minimal advantages offered by the canal over the existing
passages through the Malay Peninsula-Indonesian Archipelago
Barrier are outweighed by the costs that accrue from U.S.
support of the canal, such that it is impractical and
unnecessary for the United States to pursue this foreign
policy in support of U.S. national interests within the
Indian Ocean.
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