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1	Access issues associated with U.S. military presence in Thailand and the Philippines Dilag, Bayani C. 03 1900 (has links) Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited / In pursuit of the objectives of the U.S. National Security Strategy and the National Military Strategy, the U.S. Armed Forces require access to military and logistics facilities overseas to be able to support and sustain its combat power projection. Access to these places translates into capabilities. An American military forward presence in time of peace as well as during a regional crisis lends credibility to U.S. diplomacy. Moreover, access to forward locations is expedient when engaging transnational threats or supporting humanitarian missions, e.g., the South and Southeast Asia tsunami relief operations. This thesis analyzes the political opposition to U.S. military presence in Thailand and the Philippines. The historical context that led to the development of this opposition is examined in detail. The rationale of those who oppose, as well as those who support, American military presence is clearly delineated. By understanding the sensitive political issues, U.S. military planners and operators can adapt base access strategies according to the existing political climate in these two countries. The politics unique to each environment will dictate the combination of "basing" approaches tailored to meet the U.S. military objectives as well as the public diplomacy required to support them. / Major (Select), United States Air Force U.S.-Thai relations U.S.- Philippines relations Public diplomacy Forward presence Access strategy Radicalism Leftist nationalism Rightist nationalism Muslim nationalism Anti-American Anti-U.S. Propaganda United front USPACOM Theater security Military bases Military presence Basing strategies Political mobilization Democratization
2	Professor Carl A. Helmecke and Nazism: A Case Study of German-American Assimilation Collins, Steven Morris 12 1900 (has links) Carl A. Helmecke, like many German Americans marginalized by the anti-Germanism of the First World War and interwar period, believed that democracy had failed him. A professor with a doctoral degree in social philosophy, he regularly wrote newsletter columns declaring that the emphasis on individualism in the United States had allowed antidemocratic forces to corrupt the government, oppress citizens, and politicize schools and institutions for propaganda purposes. Moreover, widespread hunger and unemployment during the Great Depression added to the long list of failures attributable to democracy. What the United States needed, Helmecke thought, was political change, and he believed that the Nazi regime in his homeland, albeit flawed, had much to offer. In 1937, he went on a teaching sabbatical to Nazi Germany to study the Third Reich's education and social programs. When he returned to the United States, he began promoting Nazi ideals about education and labor camps. Although Hitler's 1939 invasion of Poland, followed by the United States entry into World War II, brought his fascist illusions for political change in the United States to an abrupt end, his belief in the correctness of an autocratic system of governance for Germany rather than that of the western democracies endured. His story helps to explain why some German American academics embraced Nazism during the interwar period and later denied the Holocaust and other Nazi atrocities. German-American First World War Safe for Democracy marginalization assimilation German Kaiser Hitler Nazism Nazi education anti-democracy human dignity immigration Holocaust denial anti-American Woodrow Wilson post-war Germany History, United States Education, Philosophy of Political Science, General

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Access issues associated with U.S. military presence in Thailand and the Philippines

Professor Carl A. Helmecke and Nazism: A Case Study of German-American Assimilation