Rick Sanchez asked what he makes of the US’ “serious overtures” with Pakistan, Shashi Tharoor said, “I think the US is in a better position to answer that question than we are.

The roar of modern war's destroying engines shook the gilded spires and jeweled pagodas of many-templed Bangkok last week. In answer to the Thai government's invitation, SEATO nations were ...

The SEATO commitment was the reason. Making an ironclad promise under international law bound the United States to conflict. Over 10 years, 55,000 US troops died in a war that no presidential ...

The exercise was billed grandly as SEATO's "first joint international sea, air and land maneuvers." Thailand, which thought it up, declared that all eight nations had been invited to ...

US To India: Be My Local Deputy? However, for a sheriff to succeed in enforcing the law in his jurisdiction, there is a need for deputies. In the early days of the Cold War, America tried to ...

That points to the failure of SEATO to take root in Asia. Fast forward to today, the calls for Asian NATO is still impracticable.

IN shaping its foreign policy the Philippines is primarily moved by three considerations: first, national security; second, economic stability; and third, political and cultural relations with the ...

SEATO’s history remains significant even 70 years after its formation and nearly 50 years since its demise.

Yet Seato’s fatal flaw — which could haunt Mr. Biden’s plans — was overreliance on American military power. After all, of the other Seato members — France, Britain, New Zealand, Australia, the ...