Other countries in the region are not spending massive amounts on defense. Although, australia and japan have committed to increase spending, particularly on maritime capability. Generally, were seeing a reduction in the resources of the u. S. And its potential Coalition Partners and an increase overall. So the task of managing this challenge and monitoring it is becoming greater. Then as i said, were seeing gaps in capability. Notwithstanding the u. S. Rebalance, there are limits to resources in terms of humanitarian assistance, in terms of amphibious capability, in terms of assets, undersea assets. The u. S. Attack submarine fleet actually around the mid 2020s will start to get smaller, not larger, for example. And gaps in cyber, Missile Defense and Maritime Security more broadly. For that reason, i really chose to focus my paper on Maritime Security and how we can take the framework of federated defense and start to actualize it in terms of real capability. In the region. Then i nar
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When Japanese former foreign minister Taro Kono announced his vision to revive the security meetings between Japan, Australia, India and the United States (known as the Quad) in October 2017, he proposed to upgrade the meeting from the original sub-cabinet level to foreign minister level toward a summit level “strategic dialogue” in the coming years.
Trump administration officials from the U.S. State Department such as Deputy Secretary Stephen Biegun and Secretary Mike Pompeo also hinted at the possibility of formalizing the QUAD.
Might the Quad become more institutionalized? If so, what form would it take? In fact, it might be useful to refer to the Trilateral Strategic Dialogue (TSD) between Japan, Australia and the United States, which has a more formal structure than the QUAD.