United States Concentrations in Indian Ocean and It’s Strategic Implications

Abstract

Since the turn of the 21st century, some of the foremost occasions that form the international
security milieu have emerged from within or on the shores of the Indian Ocean. The Indian Ocean
will be a vital frontline for the competition between conflicting strategic partnerships, with the
United States (US) and India on one side and Pakistan and China on the other. Thus, the primary US
security objectives in the Indian Ocean region (IOR) are protecting its trade and maintaining a
force adequately strong to balance or counter most events in the Middle East and elsewhere along
the ocean’s littoral. While China endures developing its locus in the region through its highly
funded “One Belt, One Road strategy,” which pursues to revive the old trade routes with Beijing at
the center of the trade. The present study tries to explain the ongoing American concentrations and
interests in IOR and its strategic ramifications for littoral states of the region and Pakistan. The
study in hands employs historical, descriptive, and analytical research methods under the
qualitative research approach.