The Island Chain Strategy

Description

The conceptualized lines (The first, second, and third island chains) and strategic locations of the Island Chain Strategy, a containment plan conceived by American foreign policy statesman John Foster Dulles. 

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Source

All data were digitized from the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s 2006 annual report to congress: Military Power of the People’s Republic of China. For metadata, such as data description and available methods for geospatial data processing, please read the readme.pdf.

Terms of use

This dataset features in a collection of geospatial data "Geo-mapping databases for the Belt and Road Initiative". To cite this work, available citation styles can be found here: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6076193