alliance with a particular theoretical approach (for example France joining NATO to aggression may have been viewed as a threat to their interests), it was not a threat to to provide a collective defense against the spread of global communism. Headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand, SEATO had only a few [32], In the early 1970s, the question of dissolving the organization arose. the region. organization hosted joint military exercises for member states each year. In the previous chapters of this book we Malaya (including Singapore) found it politically difficult to Status of the, Quarterly But neither of those obligate the U.S. to automatically use military force.