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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
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PROBLEM
1. To determine United States national objectives, policies, and courses of action with respect to Asia.
UNITED STATES LONG-RANGE NATIONAL OBJECTIVES IN ASIA
2. The long-range national security objectives of the United States with respect to Asia are:
- a. Development by the nations and peoples of Asia, through self-help and mutual aid, of stable and self-sustaining non- communist governments, oriented toward the United States, acting in accordance with the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, and having the will and ability to maintain internal security and prevent communist aggression.
- b. Elimination of the preponderant power and influence of the USSR in Asia or its reduction to such a degree that the Soviet Union will not be capable of threatening from that area the security of the United States or its friends, or the peace, national independence and stability of the Asiatic nations.
- c. Development of power relationships in Asia which will make it impossible for any nation or alliance to threaten the security of the United States from that area.
- d. In so far as practicable, securing for the United States and the rest of the free world, and denying to the communist world, the availability through mutually advantageous arrangements, of the material resources of the Asian area.
- ↑ For the purposes of this report, "Asia" is defined as that part of the continent of Asia south of the USSR and east of Iran together with the major off-shore islands -- Japan, Ryukyus, Formosa, the Philippines, Indonesia, Ceylon, Australia and New Zealand.
NSC 48/5
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