Accession Number:

ADA010812

Title:

The Kra Canal: An Analysis of a Foreign Policy Alternative for the United States Navy in the Indian Ocean

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA

Personal Author(s):

• Graham, Alan S.

Report Date:

1975-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

155.0

Abstract:

Thailands 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 Sea with the Indian Ocean. The impact that a completed Kra Canal 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.

Descriptors:

• *FOREIGN POLICY
• *UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
• *THAILAND
• *CANALS
• INDIA
• THESES
• COSTS
• CONSTRUCTION
• NAVAL OPERATIONS
• SOUTHEAST ASIA
• INDIAN OCEAN
• SOUTH CHINA SEA
• STRAITS

Subject Categories:

• Government and Political Science

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE