By Marie Williams

Lt. Colonel Laura Keenan joins the program to discuss her Strategy Bridge #WritingContest2021 prize-winning article, “The Lion and The Mouse: The Need for Greater U.S. Focus in the Pacific Islands,” and her strategy for the United States to build meaningful partner capacity in the Pacific Island Countries.

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Links

1. Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project. In the South Pacific War Zone (1943).
2. United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Knowledge Platform. Kiribati.
3. “Soft Power,” by Joseph S. Nye, Foreign Policy, No. 80, Autumn, 1990.
4. The Climate Reality Project.
5. U.S. House of Representatives. The Strategic Importance of the Pacific Islands.
6. U.S. Department of Defense. DOD Climate Assessment Tool (DCAT).
7. U.S. Department of Defense. Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Request.
8. “The Pacific Deterrence Initiative: Peace through Strength in the Indo-Pacific,” by Sen. Jim Inhofe and Sen. Jack Reed, War on the Rocks, May 28, 2020.
9. Secretary Hillary Clinton. “Remarks at the Pacific Islands Forum Post-Forum Dialogue.” August 31, 2012.

Marie Williams is Co-Host of the Sea Control podcast. Contact the podcast team at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.